News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - The National Park Service (NPS), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Coconino County, and City of Flagstaff partnered to complete a congressionally mandated study to explore management options for a study area of federal (USFS), state, and private lands surrounding Walnut Canyon National...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Walter.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Feb. 3, 2014, Margarita Gomez, 32, of Tucson, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John A. Jarvey to 30 months imprisonment. Gomez pleaded guilty to corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of the Internal Revenue Laws. Gomez was also ordered to pay $200,408 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: In Settlement, Bank Admits And Accepts Responsibility For Improperly Approving Thousands Of Mortgage Loans For Government Insurance, And Agrees To Implement Enhanced Quality Control Program To Protect Against Future Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jerry Pulsifer, 28, of Pittsford, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, was sentenced to 130 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: For Pair of December 2012 Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, February 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARI-MARK THOMAS, 38, of Michigan, formerly of Norwalk, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, Scott J. Israel, Sheriff, Broward County Sheriff’s Office (BSO), and Addy Villanueva...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor practicing in Newark was convicted at trial of receiving cash kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals, becoming the 14th doctor and 16th defendant to be convicted in connection with the government’s investigation of illegal payments made by an Orange, N.J., diagnostic testing facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that former St. Landry Parish School Board member Quincy Richard Sr., 51, of Opelousas, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to 33 months in prison for one count of conspiracy to commit bribery and two counts of bribery. He was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release and to pay a $10,000 fine. A jury found him guilty after a two-day trial on Aug. 20, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: A man who enticed a minor to engage in sexual activity and possessed child pornography was sentenced Feb. 3, 2014, to almost 30 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Regulatory Affairs Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan today requested that Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen withdraw a proposed regulation limiting political speech by nonprofit organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Two men who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were sentenced on Nov. 14, 2013, and Jan. 31, 2014, each to one year in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Budget and Economic Outlook found that the President’s health care law would eliminate 2.3 million American jobs in 2021 - 1.5 million more than the previous estimate of 800,000 jobs lost...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: A revolution is under way in timekeeping. Precision timekeeping based on atomic clocks already underpins much of our modern technology-telecommunications, computer networks and satellite-based positioning systems like GPS that are used by billions of people every day. But now research at NIST, JILA* ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney says collaborative investigation has resulted in first-of-kind charges.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following statements after a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report revealed the president’s health care law could lead to a loss of 2.5 million full-time jobs by 2024...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentences of defendants Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Ziyad Yaghi, and Hysen Sherifi, who were charged and convicted as a part of United States v.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free ranger-led car caravan tour of Chickamauga Battlefield on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014, at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 35-year-old Wilkes-Barre resident pleaded guilty today in Wilkes-Barre before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick to a criminal information charging her with tampering with a consumer product that affected interstate commerce.
