News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: The Department of the Interior today announced the release of a draft proposed federal regulation by the Office of Natural Resource Revenue (ONRR) governing the valuation of federal oil and gas, and federal and American Indian coal resources, as well as expanded guidance on the production of coal on...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Antoine D. Clark (30, Orlando) to three years and one month in federal prison for receipt of a bribe by a public official. The Court also entered a money judgment against him in the amount of $28,450, which represents the proceeds of the offense. Clark pleaded guilty on Sept. 23, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a multi-million dollar, multi-state conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 27-year-old Shallowater, Texas, man appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man, who most recently resided in Salem, was convicted yesterday of participating in a North Shore drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Melvin Lowe Sentenced For Conspiring With New York State Senator John Sampson To Defraud The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2014, by Senior U.S. District Judge John G, Heyburn II, to serve 37 years and 10 months in prison for the robbery of a bank and a neighborhood business located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $120, 714.62 announced John E. Kuhn, Jr., Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. There is no parole in the federal correctional system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Union Officials Admit Extorting Port Workers for Christmastime Tribute Payments.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule regulating the disposal of coal ash and committed to oversight of the rule early next Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule regulating the disposal of coal ash and committed to oversight of the rule early next Congress.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of the recent developments surrounding the Sony breach, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that the committee will hold a series of hearings throughout the coming year to examine the numerous threats to electronic commerce and the overall American economy posed by cybercrime. The hearings will continue work begun over the last four years to examine ongoing cyber threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Melvin George, 27, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced yesterday by J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Judge, to 60 months in jail for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base between September of 2012 and February, 2013 in the Rutland, Vermont area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp has sentenced Duwane Edward Gilmore (27, Mount Dora) to 10 years in federal prison for two counts of bank robbery. The Court also ordered Gilmore to forfeit $4,273.75, the traceable proceeds of the offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded the Environmental Protection Agency’s final rule regulating the disposal of coal ash and committed to oversight of the rule early next Congress.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of the recent developments surrounding the Sony breach, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that the committee will hold a series of hearings throughout the coming year to examine the numerous threats to electronic commerce and the overall American economy posed by cybercrime. The hearings will continue work begun over the last four years to examine ongoing cyber threats.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Winter is the perfect time to visit Everglades National Park! Spectacular opportunities abound to enjoy the great outdoors in your back yard. During south Florida's dry season there are few mosquitoes, afternoon storms are gone and temperatures are cooler.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Decatur, Ill., man, Jason E. Cooper, 34, of the 4800 block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, has been ordered to serve 20 years in federal prison for sexual exploitation of a minor, enticement of a minor, and making interstate threats, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Union Officials Admit Extorting Port Workers For Christmastime Tribute Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Wyman Pittman, 47, of Okeechobee, Florida, pled guilty today to one count of aiding in the preparation...
