News from December 2014
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House of Representatives passage of S. 2673, the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act. The legislation, which now heads to the President’s desk, reaffirms that Israel is a major strategic...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Eight United States Postal Service employees at the Logistical and Distribution Priority Mail Processing Center in Bethpage, Long (“Bethpage L&DC") were arrested last night and charged with theft of mail and conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute more than 129...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In formal responses to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, governors from 39 states expressed support for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and urged Congress to extend funding for the program, noting the role the program plays in providing affordable and comprehensive coverage to children.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The National Association of Interpretation (NAI) has announced its 2014 Media Award Winners and the Obed Wild and Scenic River Visitor Center's film, The Obed: Find Yourself Here, placed first in the short video category. The Interpretive Media Awards competition promotes excellence in the delivery of...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded Senate approval of two Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) nominees - P. David Lopez to serve as General Counsel of the EEOC and Charlotte Burrows to serve as a Member of the EEOC. Both nominees were approved by the HELP Committee in November.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of KYLE WAYNE MARTIN, SR., 25, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians, to 120 months in federal prison for a violent domestic assault committed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. MARTIN pleaded guilty on Aug. 20, 2014, to one count of strangulation. The defendant was sentenced today before Chief Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), co-sponsored by Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) and Representatives Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) will be included in the FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). FITARA...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of TERRY DEAN ICEMAN, 47, to 41 months in federal prison for a violent assault committed on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. On April 3, 2014, following a three-day trial, a federal jury found ICEMAN guilty of one count of strangulation. The defendant was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Duluth, Minn., on Dec. 2, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved bipartisan legislation to support the men and women of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), help ensure USCG mission effectiveness, enhance oversight and accountability, and reduce regulatory barriers experienced by our veterans and small business.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the below statement regarding the continued imprisonment of Alan Gross by the Cuban government.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DONNIE PITTMAN, age 52, of Bogalusa, was sentenced yesterday, having previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and cocaine base and misprision of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU -- A federal judge sentenced Mahealani Ventura-Oliver, 44, formerly of Maui, to 78 months of imprisonment on Dec. 1, for her role in marketing a debt elimination and tax scheme between 2008 and 2009. District Judge J. Michael Seabright also ordered Ventura-Oliver to pay $424,534 in restitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 38-year-old Fresno, California resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Wilkes-Barre, to possession with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 5,000 oxycodone pills.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of H.Res. 758, condemning the actions of Russia against neighboring countries...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven Sollera, Jr., 39, of Edgewood, Md., pled guilty today to charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky; Stuart L. Lowrey, Special Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF); Tom Caul, Special Agent in Charge for the Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of the Inspector General;...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public comments on a preliminary environmental assessment and business plan for recreational placer activities at Cache Creek.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that William Ellis, 28, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 72 months in federal prison for possessing crack cocaine with the intent to distribute it. Ellis pleaded guilty to this charge on Sept. 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - The Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task (OCDETF) investigation known as Operation El Chacal has been selected as the recipient of the National OCDETF Award for Outstanding Investigation in the Southwest Region, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, ...
