News from February 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a new staff report with detailed information regarding the Committee’s investigation of U.S. Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS), the contractor that conducted the background...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County couple has pleaded guilty to distribution of methamphetamine, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. In a plea hearing held in Charleston before United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., Rodney and Opal Wiley admitted that in January of last...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Richland, Washington - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Robert John Kearns, age 54, of Puyallup, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty in November of 2013 to Receipt of Child Pornography. Senior United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Agustin Abascal, 28, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Las Cruces federal court to 10 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Ausencio Gonzalez Tovar, 48, a Mexican national living in Star, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former City of Pittsburgh employee has been sentenced in federal court to three years supervised release which consists of six months home detention and a $6,000 fine on her conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- John Walsh, U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado, today announced that two natural supplement stores in Colorado Springs have entered into a civil settlement with the United States and will pay $20,000 in civil penalties to resolve allegations that they violated certain provisions of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Waterford, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Chad F. Summers, 41, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 15 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release. Summers will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence. Summers also was ordered to pay $500 in restitution to the victim whose image is associated with Summers’ crime of conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising a portion of the Bluff Trail will be closed effective Feb. 10, 2014 and will remain closed until further notice. The section of trail that is closed is south of the Cravens House trail and north of Sunset Rock. Chickamauga and Chattanooga NMP is reviewing possible repair options but has not decided on a course of action at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Committed Three Bank Robberies and Robbed a Store Where He Was Employed While on Supervised Release for Previous Federal Bank Robbery Convictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Hareldo Horse, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 97 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his sexual assault conviction. Horse will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Ausencio Gonzalez Tovar, 48, a Mexican national living in Star, Idaho, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2014, to 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Tovar was also ordered to forfeit $100,000 in proceeds derived from the drug trafficking offense and $18,400 in seized currency. He will be deported to Mexico after serving his prison sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today warned that the reliability of the nation’s electric grid could suffer unless federal policymakers pay greater attention to the impacts of a range of new factors and forces, including changes in the nation’s electricity mix and regulations being issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commended Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz for working through the backlog of applications to export liquefied natural gas to countries without a free-trade agreement with the United States.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, responded to a letter from the Louisiana Congressional delegation sent to him and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) regarding Ms. Rhea Suh, President Obama's nominee to be the Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife, and Parks at the Department of the Interior.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the Department of Energy’s clean coal programs, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal Dr. S. Julio Friedmann testified that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies could drastically...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ‘Ndrangheta Member, Gambino Associate, Bonanno Associate And Four Others Charged In United States With Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering And Firearms Offenses Investigation Reveals Ties To Mexican Drug Cartels And Corrupt Italian Port Official.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the Department of Energy’s clean coal programs, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal Dr. S. Julio Friedmann testified that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies could drastically...
