News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that U.S. District Chief Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Paul C. Lorenz, III (62, Casselberry, Florida) to life in federal prison for aggravated sex abuse of minors, production of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Celeste C. Paige, 55, of Newark, New Jersey, was charged today by Indictment with two counts of bank fraud and two counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Kendrick Watkins and Charles Jackson have been indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy, armed postal robbery, and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with the robbery and near-fatal shooting of a postal truck driver in Conley, Ga., on Dec. 20, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today began its hearing series on the “Benefits of and Challenges to Energy Access in the 21st Century" with a focus on electricity. The subcommittee examined the benefits of access to affordable and reliable electricity as well current challenges to expanding electricity access.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Smuggled Drugs into Baltimore Correctional Facility and One of the Officers Had Sex With BGF Inmates; 11 Correctional Officers Have Pleaded Guilty to Date.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today unveiled draft legislation to modernize the regulation of chemicals in commerce. The Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA) keys off a bipartisan bill introduced in the Senate and provides a solution to improve public confidence in the safety of chemicals produced and used in the United States and to encourage innovation and job creation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the HELP Committee approved five nominees. The approved nominees include: Dr. Vivek Murthy to serve as U.S. Surgeon General, Portia Wu...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Patrick Henry Procino, age 66, of Laurel, Delaware, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews to one year probation, a $50,000 fine and a $100 special assessment for one count of illegal storage of hazardous waste without a permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Trever Tutwiler, 22, of Henrico, Va., was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for his leadership role in conspiring to import a kilogram of methylone into the United States from China.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry regarding the Administration's attempt to reach ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is holding public hearings in March on temporary restrictions for certain sport hunting practices in several national preserves in Alaska. Public comments on these provisions will be taken from March 9 through March 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Jueves, 27 de febrero de 2014. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Un gran jurado federal acusó hoy a los hermanos Luis Cortez-Garcia, 44, y Emiliano Cortez-Garcia, 37, de Sacramento, de fabricar ilegalmente y...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following statement on the environmental review for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s geological and geophysical review of survey activities off the Atlantic coast.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the ongoing threat of counterfeit drugs, in particular illegal drug supply chains. Witnesses and members discussed how advances in technology, a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Tracy Mitchell, of Phenix City, Alabama, was indicted by a federal grand jury for her involvement in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama and Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment today against two brothers, Rudy Alberto Gonzalez-Rocha, 28, and Eloy Damian Gonzalez-Rocha, 32, both of Jalisco, Mexico, charging them with three marijuana cultivation crimes, being aliens in possession of firearms, and possessing...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Due to recent warm temperatures and rain, Kenai Fjords National Park has closed the Exit Glacier area to snowmachine use. This closure includes the road to Exit Glacier within the park boundary, parking areas, the designated route through the campground to Exit Creek, and within Exit Creek. When snow depth, snow density, and frozen soil conditions are adequate, the park will reopen for snowmachine use.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the ongoing threat of counterfeit drugs, in particular illegal drug supply chains. Witnesses and members discussed how advances in technology, a...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Feb. 27, 2014, Larry J. Dowdy, Jr., 36, of Murphysboro, Illinois, was sentenced on a methamphetamine offense, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRADLEY FERGUSON, owner of Fenton-based Paymaster Business Solutions, Inc., was indicted late yesterday on mail fraud and money laundering charges involving his alleged failure to remit federal, state and local taxes to the proper taxing authorities that had been deducted from victim client bank accounts. Ferguson also failed to remit FICA withholding to the IRS on behalf of his business clients.
