News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell III sentenced Michael Dominique Johnson, a/k/a "Ace", age 20, of Columbia, Maryland to 205 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy, conspiring to commit robbery and using a gun during a crime of violence. The sentence resulted from the consolidation of two federal cases in which Johnson pleaded guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A convicted felon from Penn Hills, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for a second time on a charge of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Bogota, Colombia - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement and outlined this framework for legislative action on Ukraine:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
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By USDA Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Findings at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are providing information about the soil carbon dynamics that play a crucial role in lifecycle assessments of bioenergy production. These studies at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency, support the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man with multiple state court convictions has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Scott Walker, 34, of Ocean Springs, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to one count of federal program fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit federal program fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Zion National Park is pleased to announce the completion of the Virgin River Comprehensive Management Plan and the signing of the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) by the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Director. The plan provides protection for 144 miles of designated wild and scenic...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Johnathon Irish, 28, of Brentwood, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 18 months in prison on firearms charges, including one count of aiding and abetting a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm, and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Bunnie Morris, 60, of Lafayette, entered a guilty plea Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Michael Hill, to defrauding more than a half million dollars from the Lafayette company where she worked.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Stanton Heights man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of smuggling goods from the United States, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced DONALD HIGGINS, 64, originally from Rochester, New York, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release and he is required to register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson, Judge James J. Brady and Judge Shelly D. Dick of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana and the agencies of the federal courthouse will host the Nineteenth Annual Federal Courthouse African American History Month Program at 1:00 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2014, in Courtroom 1, on the third floor of the federal courthouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - Four members of a Colombian drug trafficking organization have been sentenced to prison for federal violations after being convicted in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate and House 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco Office, Assistant United States Attorneys Hartley M.K. West, Philip J. Kearney, John H. Hemann, Susan E. Badger, and Stacey P. Geis, have been chosen among 57 attorneys around the state to receive the 18th Annual California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Award. The honored...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Harry S. Sommers, the Special Agent in (SAC) of the Atlanta Field (AFD) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced today that the DEA AFD is launching an anonymous statewide prescription drug texting tip line available to the public. SAC Sommers was joined by John Horn, First Assistant United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced the following prosecutions for violations of federal child exploitation laws.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released a proposal to address contamination at the Red Devil Mine site on the middle Kuskokwim River.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Jonathan Edward (“Jon") Mills, the former Chief Executive Officer of a San Francisco-based technology company, has been charged with wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
