News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for a murder-for-hire plot against an Assistant District Attorney in Worcester County.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 6, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today, pledging to continue to work with the Senate to find common ground and implement real solutions for the problems facing the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cape May County, N.J. man today admitted transporting an underage girl across state lines for the purpose of engaging in sexual activity, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Jason Glenn Catoe, 23, of Jonesborough, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 5, 2012, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 36 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dr. Dayo Obebe of Muscogee County, Ga., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Columbus, Ga., to one count of tax evasion, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A man pleaded guilty today to maliciously attempting to destroy a local beauty supply store by fire and explosive devices, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today applauded the bipartisan agreement reached by the Energy and Commerce Committee, House Committee on Ways and Means, and Senate Finance Committee in the ongoing effort to repeal and replace the Sustainable Growth Rate formula. Rep. Michael...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today announced the passage of the bipartisan North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (NAWCA) through the EPW Committee. NAWCA will reauthorize the program to protect and restore wetlands in all 50 states through 2017. Authorization for the program expired at the end of fiscal year 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 39-year-old former Luzerne Borough resident who admitted to receiving and distributing child pornography during 2012 through June 2013, was sentenced today to serve 15 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee approved several measures, including legislation related to water resources and wildlife conservation, General Service Administration (GSA) resolutions, and six nominations.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council's vote to move forward on Amendment 28, which for the first time since 1990 would reallocate red snapper quotas. Vitter originally ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the inability to process appeals of errors in the applications of those applying for and obtaining health care coverage through the health care law’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Following a six-day trial, a jury found Versiah M. Taylor, 33, and Tracy L. Collier, 48, guilty yesterday evening on multiple counts of tax fraud, wire fraud, and identity theft. Taylor and Collier are both from Panama City.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding the inability to process appeals of errors in the applications of those applying for and obtaining health care coverage through the health care law’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Bernard T. Grucza, 38, of Elma, N.Y., with making false statements during a firearm purchase, possession of a firearm by a person subject to as domestic violence order of protection and making false statements. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced former Baltimore Police officer Ashley Roane, age 26, of Pikesville, Maryland, today to five years in prison for extortion and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A McDowell County woman was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for attempting to interfere with the administration of internal revenue laws, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. The defendant, Bonita Witt-Hird, 59, of Thorpe, West Virginia, was also sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: A Salem, Ohio, pharmacist was sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution after previously pleading guilty to health care fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on February 5, 2014, Garrett Blackburn, a 21-year-old enrolled Northern Arapaho man from Arapahoe, Wyoming, appeared in Federal District Court in Casper, Wyoming for sentencing before United States District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on the...
