News from February 2014
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H. Res. 447, which calls on all sides in the ongoing confrontation in Ukraine to refrain from violence and to work toward a peaceful resolution of the crisis. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), recently passed the Committee unanimously. Chairman Royce issued the following statement on the legislation’s passage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and Grover Crossland, Resident Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) - Little Rock Field Office; announced that Lacey Rae Moore, age 43, of Little Rock...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: More than 100 lbs of marijuana, cash, gun and bulletproof vest seized by authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Defendant Shot and Killed Man During Drug Transaction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Guatemalan special forces officer was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for covering up his involvement in a 1982 massacre at Dos Erres, Guatemala.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - Cory Lynn McCourt was sentenced today in federal court in Huntington by Chief U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers to 18 months imprisonment for possession with intent to deliver cocaine base, more commonly known as crack cocaine. McCourt had previously pleaded guilty on October 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 22-year-old Wood County man who solicited and received sexually explicit images of a child pleaded guilty today. Jon Seth Davisson pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers to receiving child pornography. Davisson faces a mandatory minimum of five years and up to 20 years in prison when he is sentenced on May 12, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Hearing on “The Charleston, West Virginia Chemical Spill". Feb. 10, 2014. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). I want to thank Representative Capito for requesting this important hearing and hosting the Committee here...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: "Pat Gallagher will be sorely missed at NIST. As Director of NIST for the last several years and a 20-year veteran of the organization, he has been a model of leadership and passion for our important work in support of U.S. industry and science. He has made a positive difference at NIST in so many ways, we can't thank him enough.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard today sentenced Charles Lee Gorish (67, St. Augustine) to 15 years in federal prison for transporting images and videos of child pornography from Florida to Canada. He was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervision, following...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez, 19, of Terra Bella, and Erik Forest Basye, 34, of Sanger, were sentenced today for their involvement in separate agricultural marijuana cultivation cases, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today heard from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the ongoing threat of drug shortages and what steps have been taken by FDA to address...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Robert Hutchins, age 60, of Sandy, Utah, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Marcia S. Krieger to serve 1 year probation, with mental health treatment, for sending interstate communications involving a threat, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) responded today to the administration’s latest delays to the president’s health care law. Late this afternoon, the administration announced another delay to the law’s employer mandate. The administration first delayed the employer mandate on July 2, 2013 for one year. The administration also announced this afternoon that it would extend the deadline to obtain coverage by March 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 10, 2014, ErickMcKay, 40, Devils Lake, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson, to 30 years in prison on two counts of abusive sexual contact with a minor under the age of 12.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee Republicans sent a letter to EPW Chairman Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), requesting a full Committee hearing to examine the facts and circumstances surrounding convicted felon and former senior official at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) John Beale's expansive fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On the heels of an announcement from CVS Caremark that the company plans to pull tobacco products from its more than 7,600 U.S. stores, eight senators-led by Senate HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA)-urged other chain drug stores to follow CVS’ example, remove tobacco products from their shelves, and promote tobacco cessation efforts in its stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of fraudulently transmitting postal money orders, and making, uttering and passing counterfeit security, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today heard from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the ongoing threat of drug shortages and what steps have been taken by FDA to address...
