News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Ray Rivera, 35, of Springfield, Massachusetts was sentenced to 144 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in Burlington, also sentenced Rivera to 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A member of a Dodge City street gang was sentenced Monday to 82 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and fellow Michigan colleague John D. Dingell (D-MI) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress. Dingell has served in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announce the prosecution of several criminal tax offenders this week in the District of Colorado. With tax filing season in full swing, federal officials remind citizens that it is important to file...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A California man who recruited and used a 16-year-old girl to work as a prostitute, was sentenced today to a mandatory minimum of 10 years in federal prison, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Joseph Banks, 31, and Lareginald Strong, 31, both of Memphis, TN, were sentenced recently to more than 30 years each in federal prison for their roles in an October 2012 carjacking, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 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 24, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita maintenance technician was sentenced Monday to 16 months in federal prison for making more than $150,000 by selling equipment he stole from the companies where he worked. After completing his sentence he will serve three years on supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Ash Swale Seed Company LLC, Shedd, Ore., has paid $350 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Alan Paul Blache, 63, of Carriere, Mississippi, was sentenced today in U. S. District Court to six months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release with five months of home confinement for theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. Blache was also ordered to pay $114,855.90 in restitution to the Social Security Administration. Blache pled guilty to the charges on Dec. 2, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) shared the Planning Criteria document for the Resource Management Plans for Western Oregon. The Planning Criteria provides an in-depth look at guidance, policy, analytical methodology, and preliminary alternatives. This document is the public's look at how the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and fellow Michigan colleague John D. Dingell (D-MI) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress. Dingell has served in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Wasilla man was arraigned in Federal Court in Anchorage before Magistrate Judge John D. Roberts on two counts of sexual exploitation of children: advertising and distributing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Biscayne National Park is installing two water bottle filling stations at the Dante Fascell Visitor Center to provide clean, filtered water in a convenient and environmentally friendly way, to park visitors. One filling station opened today on the lower floor of the visitor center and another may be installed as soon as this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two former employees of Milledgeville Community Credit Union, have pleaded guilty in separate federal cases to embezzling money from Milledgeville Community Credit Union, in Milledgeville, Ill. KIMBERLY KENT, 53, who was also a former Treasurer of Wysox Township, pleaded guilty in federal court today, and KELSEY SELMAN, 37, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the case before the Supreme Court of the U.S. involving the regulatory overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: JOSEPH J. MOGAN, III, M.D., TIFFANY MILLER, and DONALD NIDES were indicted by a federal grand jury on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, for conspiring to dispense prescription drugs illegally through “pill mill" clinics operated as Omni Pain Management in Metairie, Louisiana, and Omni Pain Management Plus in Slidell, Louisiana, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Randy Ray Rivera, 35, of Springfield, Massachusetts was sentenced to 144 months in prison, having pled guilty to the charge of conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of cocaine base. United States District Judge William K. Sessions III, sitting in Burlington, also sentenced Rivera to 5 years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement upon the news that former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman and fellow Michigan colleague John D. Dingell (D-MI) will retire at the end of the 113th Congress. Dingell has served in the U.S.
