News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Noel Perez Partagas (22, Tampa) to three years and three months in federal prison for access device fraud and identity theft. The Court also ordered him to pay more than $46,000 in restitution, and entered a forfeiture money judgment of nearly $24,000, representing the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the House of Representatives approved legislation that would take a number of steps to update and improve the government’s chemical security program. The bipartisan H.R. 4007, the Protecting and Securing Chemical Facilities from Terrorist Attacks Act of 2014, reauthorizes the Chemical...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Tenn. - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, and FDA Commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D, announced today that Main Street Family Pharmacy, LLC, a compounding pharmacy in Newbern, Tennessee, and the company’s co-owner, David A. Newbaker, each pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor criminal violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act late last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Six persons have been indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Western District of Pennsylvania on various federal narcotics and immigration charges, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Join friends and family on the Ellipse in President’s Park to enjoy musical entertainment, tour Santa’s Workshop, code your own light show on holiday trees, and admire ornament displays celebrating the history, heritage, and culture of every U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia along the Pathway of Peace. The Pathway of Peace is open 10 a.m.-10 p.m. daily through January 1. All the activities are free and open to the public.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voted to advance the nomination of Colette Honorable to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a man from Many pleaded guilty Wednesday to distributing methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) took to the Senate floor to thank and bid farewell to his colleague and Ranking Member, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Memphis, Tenn. - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that members of a large tax fraud ring were recently sentenced in federal court. Melissa Harris, 35, of Memphis, was sentenced to 102 months in federal prison. Erin Crutcher, 28, of Memphis...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Regents of the University of California agreed to pay the United States $499,700 to resolve civil allegations under the False Claims Act that the University of California at Davis submitted false and misleading statements in connection with obtaining grants from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent-in-Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA"), and William J. Bratton, the Police Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), today announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding a protest by Congressional staff in the aftermath of the recent grand jury decisions in Ferguson, MO and Staten Island, NY...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Dec. 11, 2014, Robert E. Godsey, 34, Alhambra, IL, pled guilty to a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Commodity Pool Managing Partner Sent Investors Fake Account Statements.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement following the passage of an Authorization for Use of Military Force against ISIL:
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in opposition to the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act (H.R. 83) also known as the CRomnibus. Congressman Thompson spoke on the House floor today to oppose the rule for consideration of the Cromnibus (H.R. 83).
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As we all know, funding to keep the government operating expires at midnight tonight. It is my sincere hope that we can avoid the antics of last year when a vocal minority in this body was able to hold the entire government hostage for reasons they couldn’t articulate. It wasn’t...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JERRY WAYNE MORRISON, JR., a/k/a "HOOTIE," age 34, of Lost City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Terry Finn, 51, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of violating a condition of his supervised release, was sentenced to nine months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Four bipartisan bills that will modernize, strengthen, and improve our nation’s cyber security defenses were approved by the House of Representatives and are now headed to President Obama’s desk. The measures, which are the results of bipartisan and bicameral compromise, are the first major...
