News from December 2014
By DOT News Wire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the closing of a $403 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan for Fairfax County and a $195 million TIFIA loan for Loudoun County to fund construction of Phase Two of the Metrorail Silver Line ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Juan Yover Estrada-Mancilla (35, Colombia, South America) to 18 years and 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine while on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson has sentenced VINCENT SALZANO, age 57, and ARMANDO SALZANO, age 33, both of Denver, Colorado, to lengthy prison terms for their roles in attempting to transport more than seventy (70) pounds of cocaine through Baton Rouge on a private aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John P. Carlin, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and the members of the South Florida Joint Terrorism Task...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: NOAA invites the research and management community to apply for funding, up to $2.5 million in total, for one- to two-year projects to conduct the following types of work...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to the Department of Commerce’s final determination in the antidumping and countervailing duty case regarding solar products from China and Taiwan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Tulsa woman who used the Internet to market what she called her “secret sauce" to cancer victims in Kansas and elsewhere was indicted Wednesday on 13 counts of wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Avon Parent Company Enters Into Deferred Prosecution Agreement Relating To Its Role In The Conspiracy And Its Failure To Implement Internal Controls.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Joint investigation leads to multiple arrests and a federal complaint.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Lawnside, New Jersey, man today admitted illegally possessing firearms and selling 22 guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement regarding President Obama’s announced changes in U.S. policy toward Cuba...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Dec. 15, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele Leonhart, Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today the arrests of CRISTIAN VINTILA (“VINTILA"), MASSIMO ROMAGNOLI (“ROMAGNOLI"), and VIRGIL FLAVIU GEORGESCU...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ciera Leann Bennett, 23, of Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci to possession and sale of a stolen firearm and transportation of a stolen firearm over state lines. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Manzanares Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU -- A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Derek M. West, 32, a resident of Waipahu, Hawaii, with three counts of producing child pornography, and one count of possessing child pornography. West was arraigned following the indictment and pled not guilty before Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang, who ordered West detained without bail pending trial, scheduled for Feb. 17, 2015 before District Judge Derrick K. Watson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III, sentenced Frank Hill, age 30, of Baltimore, today to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for an armed commercial robbery and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Donnell Edward Harris, age 21, of Burtonsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to robbing a convenience store in Waldorf, Maryland, and to brandishing a gun during the robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: “Arctic warming is setting off changes that affect people and the environment in this fragile region, and has broader effects beyond the Arctic on global security, trade, and climate," Craig McLean, acting assistant administrator for the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, said during a...
