News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Freedom Industries Officials Indicted in January Chemical Spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Brian O. Brannen, aged 41, formerly of Albany, Georgia, entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of child pornography on Dec. 15, 2014, before the Honorable W. Louis Sands, U.S. District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Yasser Ahmad Obeid (20, St. Petersburg and Lebanon) to four years and three months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle firearms and attempting to export firearms from the United States. Obeid pleaded guilty on October 8, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: A Central Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse trainer who races horses at Penn National Race Course in Grantville pled guilty in Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg yesterday to rigging races by administering drugs to horses on race day in violation of rules and regulations banning such treatment.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Free-it's not a word you hear often during the holidays, but the City of Homestead is offering free transportation, free parking, free guided tours and free admission to Everglades and Biscayne National Parks as part of the Holiday Trolley. Take advantage of this special Homestead National Parks Trolley...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Senate has confirmed President Obama's selection for Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation. Having served as Principal Deputy Commissioner since October 8, 2014, with all of the responsibilities of Commissioner, Estevan López will now carry the title and formally take...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is today announcing that a coalition of Federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and United States Geological...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Four Charlotte men with previous criminal convictions have been indicted on federal gun charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. A federal grand jury returned the criminal indictments on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, against Carlton ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a New York man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on charges of possessing 2,500 bags of heroin and body armor during a traffic stop on Sept. 17, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, the Department of Homeland Security announced the launch of its official Instagram account.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2014 - "Throughout history, agriculture has served as a bridge to foster cooperation, understanding and the exchange of ideas among people. I have no doubt that agriculture will continue to play that powerful role as we expand our relationship with the Cuban people in the coming years.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Neither virus found in commercial poultry in U.S.; no public health concern at this time WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2014 — The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic (HPAI) H5 avian influenza in wild birds ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: A 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, the Justice Department announced. Barry J. Cadden, owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC) and NECC’s supervisory pharmacist Glenn A. Chin were charged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: A chief engineer from the M/V Trident Navigator was convicted by a federal jury in New Orleans late yesterday after a week-long trial, of knowingly falsifying the vessel’s oil record book in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), obstruction of justice and witness tampering, announced the Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that Freedom Industries Inc. (Freedom) and six former Freedom officials have been charged with various federal crimes related to the January 2014 Elk River chemical spill in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: A Coral Gables, Florida, resident and former employee of the General Services Administration (GSA) of Miami-Dade County was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison for tax evasion to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $556,254 in restitution to the U.S. Treasury, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a scheme in which he directed the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company, U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer for the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in Charge George L. Piro of the FBI’s Miami Field Office and the members of the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF), announce that Gufran Ahmed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: “The president’s actions today in providing clemency to eight individuals who were sentenced under outdated and unfair laws sustains his commitment to bring fairness to our criminal justice system. While all eight were properly held accountable for their criminal actions, their punishments did not fit ...
