News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Kansas City, Mo., man who has been living in Thailand pleaded guilty in federal court to fleeing the United States in 2007 to avoid paying child support.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that William Benjamin Mejias (41, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to impersonating a Drug Enforcement Administration agent and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Mejias faces a maximum penalty of thirteen years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office is seeking public comments on 18 Special Recreation Permit applications, including two new applications and 16 applications for renewals.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requesting documents regarding the administration’s most recent delay of the employer mandate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, on his conviction of wire fraud and wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requesting documents regarding the administration’s most recent delay of the employer mandate.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Statement of Senator Boxer Hearing on the Economic Importance of Maintaining Federal Investments in Our Transportation Infrastructure Feb. 12, 2014 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today's hearing focuses on the importance of maintaining federal funding for transportation, ensuring the long-term ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce today that William Benjamin (41, Orlando) pleaded guilty to impersonating a DEA agent and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Mejias faces a maximum penalty of thirteen years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David H. Scanlan III, a former physician-in-training in pediatric oncology at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, pleaded guilty to child pornography distribution charges today in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg. Scanlan was charged last week in a one-count criminal Information.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Donnell Brown, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 70-month prison term for distributing large quantities of Phencyclidine (PCP) in the District of Columbia, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requesting documents regarding the administration’s most recent delay of the employer mandate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Guilty of methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita restaurant owner and his wife pleaded guilty Wednesday to harboring a Chinese girl who worked at their restaurant, United States Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Antouin L. Barker (44) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Barker faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years’ imprisonment, up to a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. His sentencing hearing is scheduled on May 15, 2014. Barker was indicted on May 1, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department announced today that the U.S. solar industry is more than 60 percent of the way to achieving cost-competitive utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity - only three years into the Department’s decade-long SunShot Initiative. To help continue this progress, the...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) yesterday sent a letter calling on Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to uphold the promises and commitments she made more than seven weeks ago to protect the health and safety of those who live in the remote village of King Cove, Alaska.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Beck’s Superior Hybrid’s Inc., Atlanta, Ind., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a former California lawyer, now disbarred, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage yesterday for fraud.
