News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee hearing entitled “Examining Recommendations to Reform Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Authorities." During his opening remarks, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) delivered the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Inspector General: We are writing to object strongly to your office’s repeated partisan meetings with Chairman Darrell Issa and his staff after intentionally excluding Democratic Committee Members and staff-particularly regarding matters that currently are under active investigation by both...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: ROBERTO BARRERO, 46, a naturalized American citizen originally from Bolivia, was sentenced last week by Senior Judge B. Avant Edenfield to 15 years in prison for his role in a far-reaching conspiracy whose goals included smuggling firearms and stolen cars to Bolivia, smuggling contraband...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Christopher Gary Carlson, age 40, of Wenatchee, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty in November, 2013 to Possession of Child Pornography. Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Marcus Warrick, 29, of Virginia Beach, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury on six counts of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today sent a letter to President Obama calling on him to reconsider Interior Secretary Sally Jewell’s rejection of a land exchange in the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge that would provide a life-saving road for the residents of the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, today released a new report: “The Federal Government's Track Record on Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure." The report details serious vulnerabilities in the government’s efforts to protect its own civilian computers and networks, and the critical, sensitive information they contain.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As U.S. Olympians begin arriving in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today released a bipartisan video in support of Team USA. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Noe Munguia-Diaz, a/k/a Juan Ernesto Medina-Munguia, 35, of Rexburg, Idaho, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distributing methamphetamine and illegally possessing weapons, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The Hon. Terry J.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months in prison and three years supervised release on her conviction of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine base, commonly known as "crack," United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Carrolltown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years probation on her conviction of conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, U.S. District Chief Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Michael Lee Fry, 38, of Douglas County, Oregon, to a prison term of 15 years for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Following his release from prison, the defendant will be on supervised release for five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Douglas Jordan, 40, of Wolcott, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to 8 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge of odometer fraud. Chief Judge Christina Reiss also ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Marques Cayne, 30, of Elmira, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa, to possessing a stolen firearm in and affecting interstate commerce. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000.00, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, announced today that William T. West, 29, of Uniontown, Ohio, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Christopher A. Seifer (age: 43) of Westfield, Wisconsin, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Milwaukee. The indictment charges Mr. Seifer with four counts of mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code § 1341, and one count of theft of government property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, § 641.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: ROBERTO BARRERO, 46, a naturalized American citizen originally from Bolivia, was sentenced last week by Senior Judge B. Avant Edenfield to 15 years in prison for his role in a far-reaching conspiracy whose goals included smuggling firearms and stolen cars to Bolivia, smuggling contraband ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: “I am pleased to welcome Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Obama’s nominee to be the next U.S. Surgeon General. As the ‘Nation’s Doctor,’ the Surgeon General serves as our nation’s primary spokesperson and advocate on matters of public health and is a critical leader in the response to public health crises...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United (US) Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announce today that Jose Samir Renteria-Cuero, a/k/a Jose (51, Cali, Colombia) pleaded guilty to conspiring with others...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today secured a commitment from the nominee for Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Janice Schneider, to improve the Interior Department’s permitting process and provide greater regulatory certainty for oil and natural gas exploration in the Arctic.
