News from February 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The bench-scale test widely used to evaluate whether a burning cigarette will ignite upholstered furniture may underestimate the tendency of component materials to smolder when these materials are used in sofas and chairs supported by springs or cloth, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and American University researchers report in a new study.*
By DOE 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: FRESNO, Calif. - Steven Hamman, 52, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to three counts of conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a fraudulent check-cashing scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Minh Thong, age 30, of Denver, Colorado, appeared in court today on charges of production, distribution and possession of child pornography, United States Attorney John Walsh and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Kumar Kibble...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
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By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: St. Augustine, FL - Join us on February 15th for a special look at St. Augustine and Castillo de San Marcos, then known as Fort Marion, between 1875 and 1878. In the 1800s, as western expansion increased, violence between Native Americans and white settlers escalated and essentially ended the traditional...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that William S. Stemmons, 31, of Wasilla, was sentenced to five years of probation for committing fraud against the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Phillip Eric Weems, 36, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 121 months in prison for running an elaborate check-cashing scheme in which he created more than $1.2 million worth of forged and counterfeit securities. Weems recruited more than 70 co-conspirators who presented forged and counterfeit checks...
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: “Ranger’s Ranger" One of Six Finalist for Prestigious National Award.
By DOE 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: On Feb. 10, 2014, Pattsy S. Pelate, 27, of Cutler, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Stephen J. Wilson, 32, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha after failing to register as a sex offender. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Wilson to thirty months in federal prison. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison Wilson will begin a five year term of supervised release and once again be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that EARL L. THERIOT, age 65, of Sorrento, Louisiana, pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to making false statements to an FBI Special Agent in connection with a criminal civil rights investigation. THERIOT faces up to five (5) years in prison, three (3) years of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the filing of aoday against the State of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Department of Corrections (RIDOC) alleging that the defendants are engaged in a pattern or practice of employment discrimination against African-Americans and Hispanics in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Brandon Taylor (24, Bradenton). The five-count indictment charges Taylor with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm, and three counts of possession with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Richard Melella, 44, of Clovis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill to 10 months in prison for conspiring to buy, receive, alter and pass counterfeit U.S. currency, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Melella’s co-conspirator, Fresno resident Christina Williams, 25, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A chain of opiate addiction recovery centers, headquartered in Harrodsburg, KY., and a Russell Springs, KY., clinical laboratory, along with two physician owners, agreed to pay the U.S. Government millions of dollars to resolve civil allegations that they fraudulently billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary and excessive urine tests.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Martin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on February 7, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jerome Bushay has been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of ecstasy (MDMA), methamphetamine, BZP (which is a drug similar to ecstasy), and ketamine.
