News from February 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON: Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) release the following statement on the news of the collapse of Mt. Gox, a major Bitcoin exchange based in Japan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Tory Lenard James (32, Sarasota) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. James faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 16, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) issued the following statement after a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee on job opportunities for veterans in the energy sector...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Selma, AL - The Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail with Ms. Tracy Martin presents the exhibition of “Civil Rights Leaders Then and Now: Photographs by James “Spider" Martin and Johnathon Purvis". Have you ever thought about the role the media played in the success of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictment on Jan. 22, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House passed H.R. 1232, the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), the bipartisan legislation introduced by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Former Pittsburgh Police Chief Nathan E. Harper has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment and one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $31,986 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy and willful failure to file income tax returns, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 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 US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a roundtable policy discussion on Thursday on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) efforts to address the NextGen Advisory Committee’s (NAC) recommendations for developing the United States’ NextGen air traffic control system.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today at the close of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) ministerial round that took place in Singapore...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today introduced legislation to help provide emergency relief to the ongoing propane and home heating fuels shortage in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANK DOUGHTY, also known as “Fresh," 42, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass bipartisan legislation introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, along with Committee Chairman Darrell E. Issa and Rep. Mike Quigley, to amend the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to strengthen government openness and accountability.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy posted at the Capodichino Navy Base near Naples, Italy, was arraigned yesterday in Norfolk, Va., for allegedly obtaining more than $360,000 in housing benefits that he was not entitled to receive.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KENNETH WAYDE ELKINS, age 55, of McAlester, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging him with three counts of Video Voyeurism, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1801.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Timothy Keevan, 49, of Swanton, Vermont, pleaded guilty on Feb. 14, 2014, before Chief Judge Christina Reiss in the United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to one count of accessing images of child pornography...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: On July 21, 2013, rangers received a report of the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl at Ozark Campground during the Memorial Day weekend. An NPS special agent was notified and an investigation was begun.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Reed Christopher LeBlanc, 20, a former resident of Huntsville, will now be serving a federal prison sentence of nearly 11 years following his conviction of distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. LeBlanc pleaded guilty Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Sentencing is scheduled in June 2014, for a Mt. Olive, Ill., man, after a jury convicted him of possession of heroin with intent to distribute. The jury deliberated for approximately 30 minutes on Feb. 20, 2014, before finding David L. Simpson, 51, guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that VICTOR EARL GARRETT, age 57 and ROY LYNN WESBERRY, age 54, both of Davis, Oklahoma, were indicted by a federal grand jury with Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, a violation of Title 18, United...
