News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: DENVER - John W. Stitt, age 66, of Lakewood, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve one year and a day in federal prison for theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal jury in Harrisburg returned a verdict today finding a New York man guilty of conspiracy to traffic drugs and trafficking drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement that the agency experienced a net loss of $354 million in the first quarter of 2014, which includes $1.4 billion in accrued expenses for the legally mandated prefunding payment of retiree health benefits. Currently, USPS has $16.7 billion in defaulted payments that were due for 2012 and 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Patrick Hoffman II, 40, of Virginia Beach, Va., was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for attempting to commit espionage against the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Brooklyn, NY, resident has been sentenced in federal court to 54 months of probation, which includes six months of home detention with electronic or GPS monitoring, on his conviction of conspiracy and passing counterfeit currency, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on a produce business for failure to pay a reparation award issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a floor speech today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, talked about the growing retirement crisis Americans face and the need to act now to solve it. Many Americans are vastly unprepared for retirement, with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on February 6, 2014, RANDY LEE RIDER, 47, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, was sentenced to a term of 120 months' imprisonment and five years of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris,.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia returned an indictment last week charging 8 defendants with trafficking powder and crack cocaine and marijuana in the Savannah area and elsewhere. This federal indictment follows state charges, where the Eastern Judicial Circuit/Chatham County District Attorney’s Office indicted 20 others for their involvement in the drug-trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Recent freezing temperatures have contributed to an increase of ice on Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, and a reminder for visitors to be very cautious around bodies of water in the winter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - KYLE MILLER, St. Louis, Missouri, admitted to stealing $15,000 in cash from a U.S. Bank facility in Maplewood where he worked in 2013. Miller pleaded guilty to one count of misappropriation of funds by a bank employee. He appeared before Judge John A. Ross in federal court in St. Louis this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Republic Airlines pilot pleaded guilty in federal court today to threatening the company’s CEO.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that four defendants have been charged in three separate complaints with narcotics trafficking resulting in the largest seizure of cocaine ever in the Rochester area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin, South Dakota, woman convicted of Benefits Fraud was sentenced on February 7, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alex Flecha, 28, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to five years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant also forfeited any interest he had in $25,140.00 that was seized, as drug trafficking proceeds.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), is scheduled to meet at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building to consider the following measures...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Latino men associated with the Compton 155 street gang were sentenced to federal prison today for their racially-motivated attack on African-American juveniles at a residence in Compton on New Year’s Eve 2012.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) highlighted a report by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) with estimates that Medicare had paid more than $11 million between 2006 and 2010 for prescription...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to the head of U.S. Office Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner demanding documents about how the White House engaged the Office of the Special Counsel in efforts to address concerns about the inappropriate use of the newly revived office for campaign related efforts.
