News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the filing of an Indictment in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg today charging Donald Jackson, Jr. age 28, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with possessing with the intent to distribute crack cocaine.
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, responded to the announcement from the State Department Inspector General that there was no conflict of interest associated with the Keystone XL Pipeline Environmental Impact Study...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Waynesville, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for robbing Security Bank of Pulaski County in St. Robert, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Departamento de Justicia. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of California. PARA DIVULGACION INMEDIATA. Miércoles, 26 de febrero de 2014. SACRAMENTO, Calif. - El juez de la procuradería federal del distrito oriental de California John A. Méndez sentenció a Fausto Díaz-Lozano, 45, de Sacramento, el...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: A Detroit-area based consortium of 60 companies, nonprofits, and universities and a Chicago based consortium of 73 companies, nonprofits, and universities are partnering with the federal government to launch two new manufacturing innovation hubs. The first new manufacturing innovation institute competition this year is launching today, one of four the Administration has committed to launching this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Two men who crossed state lines to commit sex acts with a minor were sentenced Feb. 25, 2014, to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Keith Williams, aka “Chucky Blood," 24, of Dallas, appeared in federal court yesterday and pleaded guilty, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of sex trafficking of children. He faces a maximum statutory penalty of not less than 10 years and up to life in federal prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement today after House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp unveiled a tax reform discussion draft...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement today after House Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp unveiled a tax reform discussion draft...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Otto Godinez-Sales, 22, of San Jose; Francisco Martinez-Cruz, 34, of Orland; and Soledad Garcia-Venegas, 31, of Orland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing, “Prospects for Peace in Democratic Republic of Congo."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Edward J. Markey (D-MA) today in introducing the Protecting Children from Electronic Cigarette Advertising Act to prohibit the marketing of e-cigarettes to children and teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: GEORGE POTTER, 27, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Martin L.C. Feldman, to serve 188 months incarceration, for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. In addition to the term of imprisonment, POTTER was sentenced to serve 10 years supervised release and must register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration Notification Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Gerald Young and Rodney Strachan, two Florida men who supplied large amounts of the prescription narcotic Oxycodone to pill distributors in northwest Georgia, have been sentenced to prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. -Stephen Ardrey, 30, of Springfield, Mo., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., today to transporting a 17-year old female from the Boston area into Rhode Island with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. Ardrey was arrested on Sept. 12, 2013, when he was located walking with the victim along a Coventry, R.I., highway three days after the victim had been reported missing from her Medfield, Mass., home.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Multiple Analyses Find Administration’s Proposed Rule Would Lead to More #BrokenPromises, Higher Costs, and Fewer Choices for Seniors
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee today expressed concerns about the legality, consequences, and cost of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ proposed changes to the popular Medicare Part D prescription drug program. The administration’s proposed...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Olympic National Park is proposing minor changes to recreational fishing regulations within the park. These proposed changes apply to non-tribal, recreational fisheries within the boundaries of Olympic National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced late yesterday for his role in a wire fraud and identity theft scheme.
