News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - The last defendant convicted in the cocaine distribution conspiracy case that involved former NFL player Sam Hurd, III, was sentenced this afternoon in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña, of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell sentenced Brian Mirth (29, Winter Park) yesterday to seven years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. As part of his sentence, Mirth was ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervision, following his release from prison, and required to register as a sex offender. Mirth pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography on Oct. 31, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) sent a letter yesterday to the attorney representing Lois Lerner, the former Director of the Exempt Organizations unit of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), recalling her to testify before the Committee on March 5th, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WALTER CONLEY, a/k/a “Ike Neezy", 25, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to serve 480 months (40 years) in prison for violating federal RICO, firearms, murder, and carjacking charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. CONLEY was...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. Final defendant’s guilty plea brings closure to nearly $4 million fraud. SHERMAN, Texas - A 35-year-old Edinburg, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), today held a hearing entitled, “Providing Access to Affordable, Flexible Health Plans through Self-Insurance." During the hearing, members discussed the positive benefits enjoyed by workers and employers participating in self-insured health plans and expressed objections to regulatory efforts that would discourage the use of this important health insurance option.&
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said ObamaCare’s proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage (MA) are a serious threat to the plans, benefits and doctors of the roughly 15 million seniors enrolled in the popular health care program. Hatch...
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, February 27 at 10:00 a.m. to consider the bipartisan Electrify Africa Act, H.R. 2548.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, (IRS-CI), announce the arrest of Tia Lashonda Miller, 39, of West Palm Beach, on charges of unlawful possession of unauthorized...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man charged with Simple Assault pled guilty to and was sentenced on Feb. 25, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jerome Bushay has been sentenced to prison for trafficking more than 185,000 pills of (MDMA), methamphetamine, (which is a drug similar to ecstasy), and ketamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: I join Chairwoman Granger in welcoming our distinguished witnesses here today. The challenges you face promoting democracy, civil liberties and basic human rights in repressive and fragile countries are enormous and the results are not always clearly visible.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Gasim Manafov, age 36, of Ocean City, Maryland, and Charlotte, North Carolina today to 18 months in prison followed by a year of supervised release for conspiring to commit immigration fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 26, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2804, the Achieving Less Excess in Regulation and Requiring Transparency Act or 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Grand Portage National Monument Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a joint report on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s highly-invasive surveillance program that monitored employees who contacted Congress and the media with concerns about FDA’s medical device approval process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Leevern Coleman, 43, with manufacturing counterfeit United States currency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Ivan Cabrera and Michael Ayala, both of Edinburg, and Mexican National Maria Isabel Rivera-Castillo have been sentenced to federal prison as a result of their convictions for smuggling undocumented aliens, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Cabrera, 23, Ayala, 27, and Rivera-Castillo, 52, all pleaded guilty on varying dates in November 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Tara Pelletier, 33, of Skowhegan, Maine, was sentenced today to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute oxycodone and cocaine. Pelletier pled guilty to the charge on April 30, 2013.
