News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Christopher Reza Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: html xmlns=". USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - 160. LOS ANGELES - A task force investigation into the street gang that has terrorized the Ramona Gardens housing complex in Boyle Heights for decades has resulted in a federal racketeering indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that OSAKA THAI CORPORATION, which operated Osaka Japanese Restaurant and Thai House Restaurant in Slidell, SHINTO RESTAURANT, INC., which operated Shinto Japanese Restaurant in Lafayette, and their owner, TONY NGUYEN, age 57, of Slidell, were sentenced today for conspiring to harbor aliens and for engaging in an unlawful pattern and practice of employing aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: (Pine Springs, TX) Guadalupe Mountains National Park Superintendent Dennis A. Vásquez announced that the National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public input on a Final Environmental Assessment for a new Wilderness Stewardship and Trail Management Plan for Guadalupe Mountains National Park. The purpose...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Airmatic, Inc., a company located at 284 Three Tun Road, Malvern, PA, was sentenced today to three years of probation and a $350,000 fine for a mail fraud scheme involving a city contract. In addition, U.S. District Court Judge Paul S. Diamond ordered the company to pay $556,633.03 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Shirrod Henderson, also known as “Rizz," 35, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 64 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Assistant U.S. Attorney Randall D. Eggert was recognized at a national awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., today for his role in the prosecution of a capital case involving inmates at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old Jasper, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 5806, a permanent, unpaid for extension of three tax provisions that would add more than $11 billion to the debt...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced that USDA is making $5.6 million in grants to 220 producers across the nation to support the production of advanced biofuels, and is awarding more than $4 million in additional grants that will advance the bioeconomy and reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. A Lawrence man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for filing a false tax return, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued a statement in response to the proposed cuts to multiemployer pensions programs included in the fiscal year 2015 Omnibus by the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. -Paul F. Grimm, 43, Goddard, Kan., is charged with seven counts of producing child pornography. The crimes are alleged to have occurred in 2011, 2012 and 2013 in Sedgwick County, Kan.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) welcomed the 12 Republican Members who will join the Committee in the 114th Congress, including two Members elected to their third terms in Congress and ten freshmen.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: National Park Service Announces. Park Advisory Commission Meeting to be Held December 18th. Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park announces the next meeting of the Park Advisory Commission will be held on Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014 at the Warren County Government Center, 220 North Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Edward Hilts, a former resident of Fallbrook, Calif., was sentenced to 324 months in federal prison for committing several child sexual exploitation crimes, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) to announce their introduction of the Students Before Profits Act to help protect students from deceptive practices and bad actors in...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, CA-The National Park Service (NPS) is initiating public scoping on a proposal to evaluate a full range of ecological restoration options to address a large erosion gully in Cahoon Meadow, located within the John Krebs Wilderness of Sequoia National Park. The purpose...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2014
News Release: Drugs Were Concealed in a Box of Laundry Detergent.
