News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Forty years ago, on Dec. 3,1974, park rangers from Great Smoky Mountains National Park rescued 15-year old Eric Johnson and a companion who had been trapped deep in the park's backcountry by a chest-deep snow storm.Today Eric's mother traveled from Johnson City to park headquarters in Gatlinburg to thank the park rangers for saving her son's life. A trip she has made every December 3rd since 1974.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that, yesterday, a federal grand jury returned a 33-count indictment charging Sarah E.K. Laux a/k/a “Sarah Kitzke" (age 35) of Mequon, Wisconsin, with two counts of bank fraud, nine counts of wire fraud, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Steve Steinberg, Chief, Aventura Police Department, announce that Perized Oquieno Adams, a/k/a “Kevin Wilson," 38...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Florida man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Worcester yesterday for leading a scheme to steal and launder over $100,000 in government funds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Big Bend National Park will be providing stakeholder outreach to discuss possible fee increases in 2015. The current park entrance fees have been in place since Dec. 31, 2006. Funds received from entrance fees are used to improve facilities, park infrastructure, and visitor services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A California man, Willie Gonzalez, a/k/a “Bullet," 31, was found guilty by a jury sitting in federal court in East St. Louis of participating in a large methamphetamine distribution...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia collected nearly $180 million in criminal and civil actions and asset forfeitures during the most recent fiscal year, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHEN WALSH and PAUL GREENWOOD, investment managers and principals of WG Trading Company, LP, and WG Trading Investors, were sentenced in Manhattan federal court in connection with a fraudulent commodities...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Sentencing Judge Sends a Message With Imposition of 100 Month Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOSHUA SAEZ, 24, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TYQUAN PORTER, also known as “T.Y.," 27, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TIMOTHY DUCKWORTH, age 47, of Metairie, pleaded guilty today to making false statements on income tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 5771, a one-year extension of certain tax provisions...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The following events are happening at Lake Mead National Recreation Area Dec. 6 to Jan. 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Owner of Sneakerz, Inc., an Albuquerque Sports Bar and Restaurant,.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Keeping drivers safe on the road was a bipartisan focus of the Energy and Commerce Committee today as the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), held a hearing to examine the Takata airbag ruptures and recalls. Members questioned witnesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: As President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder begin to act on recommendations of an administration review of federal programs and funding that provide military equipment to local law enforcement agencies; and discussions begin on how communities and law enforcement can work together to build trust ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), how the president’s health care law has affected it, and what its future will look like.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining FDA’s Role in the Regulation of Genetically Modified Food Ingredients."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), how the president’s health care law has affected it, and what its future will look like.
