News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Custom Homebuilder Used Employee 401(k) Contributions for Personal Use.
By State Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and an active member of the Friends of Taiwan Caucus, introduced H.Res. 494, a resolution that reaffirms U.S. commitment to the Taiwan Relations Act, passed by Congress 35 years ago. Specifically, the resolution reaffirms support for Taiwan’s democratic institutions, peace in the Taiwan Strait, and deepening U.S.-Taiwan trade and security relations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Nancy Gonzalez, 74, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by information with one count of theft of Government funds, and one count of social security fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane D. Memeger. The information alleges that between Dec. 29, 1994 and September 2012, Gonzalez received...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ronnie Parker, 44, of Geneva, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making a direct threat to kill the President of the United States. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: A 14-count criminal information was filed charging a Copley man with operating a fraudulent investment scheme which caused investors to lose approximately $1.8 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, spoke on the House Floor in opposition to legislation that would give private industry an unfair advantage over the public in the rulemaking process.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Defendant Sent Child Pornography Photos To Undercover Officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - On Friday, the House Natural Resources Committee held a balanced hearing on the state of fisheries management in the United States. Witnesses were unanimous in their praise of the 2006 Magnuson-Stevens Act amendments, and in their call for the reauthorization to not “turn back the clock" by allowing continued overfishing, eliminating rebuilding timelines, and allowing economics, rather than science, to drive fisheries management.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Three men were charged Friday in connection with a bank robbery in Overland Park, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Jerome Adolfo Castle, a/k/a Dontwon Burris, age 35, a Jamaican citizen residing in Pikesville, Maryland, to 14 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Christopher Thornton, age 26, of Baltimore, today to 11 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two West Springfield, Mass. men were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for dealing in live bait fish without the required state permits and health certifications.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - The annual findings report on the Shackleford Banks horses has been released by Cape Lookout National Seashore and the Foundation for Shackleford Horses.This report, covering the calendar year 2013, is available on the park's website at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office Announced that after having been acquitted in 2012 of sexual assault, and then again in 2013-in trials involving other victims-Poplar resident Kevin Devereaux was found guilty of rape, assault and burglary by a federal jury in Great Falls on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, after a two day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) wildlife biologists lost the ability to research radio-collared wolves from the Lost Creek pack, which has historically used Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) eliminated all 11 members of the pack outside of the preserve last week as part of ADF&G’s ongoing aerial predator control program in the upper Yukon and Fortymile Rivers region.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Feb. 28, 2014 - The U. S. Department of Agriculture today finalized changes to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children to further improve the nutrition and health of the nation's low-income pregnant women...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-March is Arizona Archeology and Heritage Awareness Month. Events throughout Arizona celebrate the state's cultural history with special presentations. This year's theme is From Desert to Mountain: Valuing Our Heritage.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, were joined by 18 colleagues in urging Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner to reconsider changes proposed for the Medicare Part D prescription-drug program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Feb. 28, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Michael Scott, Jr., 41, from Washington Park, Illinois, was sentenced on Feb. 27, 2014, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, Illinois, on one count of cocaine distribution...
