News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Aaron T. Ford, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Newark Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), William Fraher, the Acting Chief of Police of the Paterson Police Department, and Gary F. Giardina, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Former Philadelphia Police Officer Jeffrey Walker pleaded guilty today to a scheme in which he planned to rob a drug dealer while on official duty. Walker pleaded to attempted robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Of the 20 terabytes of data NOAA gathers each day - twice the data of the entire printed collection of the United States Library of Congress - only a small percentage is easily accessible to the public. Through the RFI, American companies will be able to provide possible solutions for NOAA to be able to turn this untapped information into usable products or services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EFRAIN HERNANDEZ VASQUEZ, known as “Frao," 38, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - House and Senate Committee leaders yesterday called on the administration to withdraw its proposed changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released its unemployment report for January 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: A Criminal Complaint Is A Formal Accusation Of Criminal Conduct, Not Evidence. A Defendant Is Presumed Innocent Unless And Until Convicted Through Due Process Of Law.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) sent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen a letter requesting that the IRS fulfill the Committee’s months-long request for all documents regarding the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Reichert, Doggett, Introduce Bill to Prevent Child Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Thomas DeGrange, 28, formerly of Frederick, Md., was sentenced today to 57 months in prison on federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Tinley Park man who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in the city’s Loop in December 2012 while he was awaiting sentencing for bank robbery, today was sentenced to 41 months in prison for the escape, which he was ordered to serve consecutively to the 20-year sentence he received...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: A puree-making process has gone international with patents issued in the United States and now also in China, New Zealand and Australia. The award-winning process was jointly patented by collaborators with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), North Carolina State University (NC State) in Raleigh, and Industrial Microwave Systems, L.L.C., in Morrisville, N.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following reaction to The New York Times editorial, which endorsed IRS and Treasury Department proposed regulations that would push 501(c)(4) groups out of the public square by limiting their involvement in the most basic civic activities, like non-partisan candidate forums, get out the vote efforts and voter registration drives.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The arrest of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman Loera was a significant achievement for Mexico and a major step forward in our shared fight against transnational organized crime, violence, and drug trafficking. We congratulate the Mexican people and their government on the capture of the alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Sean-Michael Smith (25, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography. Smith faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Smith was indicted on August 8, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Public comments are encouraged on a recently completed environmental assessment proposing to replace the historic Swiftcurrent Bridge near the Many Glacier Hotel in Glacier National Park. Public comments are due by March 17. The assessment, The Swiftcurrent Bridge Replacement Environmental Assessment and Statement of Findings, is available at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced federal sentences for an inmate caught with drugs in federal prison and a Bluefield woman who illegally possessed a powerful prescription painkiller. Boris Bynum, 34, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: It has come to the attention of Buffalo River staff that a change in the 2014 Fishing Guidebook, published by the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, states that snagging is prohibited on the river per NPS regulation. Buffalo National River accepts the responsibility for this miscommunication to AGFC.
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement regarding the Syrian regime’s refusal to meet its deadlines for the destruction of its chemical weapons program...
