News from February 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined together today to introduce legislation that will establish strong rules for trade negotiations and Congressional approval of trade pacts, to deliver trade agreements that boost U.S. exports and create American jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Arthur Gregg Hutchins, 67, under supervised release for a previous conviction of possessing child pornography, has been ordered to prison again, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Bridget G. Brennan, the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York (“SNP"), James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA")...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: For Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Beachner Grain Inc., Erie, Kan., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the Natural Resources Conservation Service are collaborating in providing federal funds to California water districts, irrigation districts, tribes, and other organizations with water or power delivery authority located in California to improve the efficiency of agricultural water use throughout the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bryan O’Keef Kimble, 29, of Artesia, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to six counts of a seven-count indictment charging him with federal firearms and methamphetamine trafficking charges. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that on Jan. 29, 2014, U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann entered a civil judgment in favor of the United States in the amount of $1,376,670 against Howard “Jack" Aleff and Reena Slominski, a married couple from Knoxville, Iowa. Aleff and Slominski...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jesus Mauricio Juarez Jr. aka Flaco 27, has been sentenced to federal prison for his involvement in a 1,000 pound marijuana load, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He pleaded guilty in November 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif.) - A marijuana cultivator was sentenced and one entered a guilty plea today for their involvement in separate large-scale marijuana cultivation cases involving private lands, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on February 4, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Elizabeth Camue Martinez, 33, of Buffalo, N.Y., and her husband, Andres Martinez, 28, an inmate at the Attica Correctional Facility, with possession with intent to distribute...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released its unemployment report for December 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Peter Liounis, a resident of Staten Island, was convicted today by a federal jury in Brooklyn on all nine counts of the indictment for defrauding investors of millions of dollars through Grayson Hewitt, a purported lawsuit funding investment firm. Liounis lied to potential investors and promised them...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: An Indictment Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released a staff report on the Committee’s oversight of ObamaCare’s costly CO-OP program. The report, entitled “Examining the Administration’s $2 billion ObamaCare Loan Guarantee Gamble: Two Case...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: To Embezzling More Than $150,000 From Non-Profit.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement today in support of the National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB) proposal to reform and modernize the union representation process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- Two Mexican nationals were found guilty today of federal charges related to the death of a Coast Guard officer who was fatally injured in late 2012 when he was thrown from a Coast Guard vessel that was rammed by a “panga" boat operated by defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on February 5, 2014, Christopher Michael Sudlik (age: 22) of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach.to 36 months’ probation, 60 hours of community service, and ordered to pay $110,932.71 in restitution.
