News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Today, the Over-Criminalization Task Force, a bipartisan working group convened by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to consider reforms to the criminal justice system, held a hearing entitled “Criminal Code Reform." After delivering his opening remarks, Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal jury found Andrea Lewis, 54, of Shreveport, guilty on three counts of transporting minors across state lines to have sex. United States District Judge Elizabeth Foote presided over the five-day trial.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week examining the impacts of federal environmental regulations on maritime transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - George Baumanis, 59, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that James L. Stillwell, aged 45, from Cordele, Georgia, was sentenced on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, to serve nine years (108 months) in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, United States District Court Judge, in Albany, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Delyle Shanny Augare. Dorothy May Still Smoking. The United States Attorney's Office announced that former officials of the Blackfeet Tribe's Po'Ka Project, a multi-million dollar federally funded effort to address the needs of troubled youth on the reservation, have entered guilty pleas in federal court...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Office in Palmer, Alaska, is accepting applications for the Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) Program for Fiscal Year 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A federal jury has convicted a 60-year-old Lumberton, Texas man of child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Defendants Sentences Range From Three Years To Sixteen Years In Prison For String Of Robberies In Michigan, Ohio, And Washington.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today continued its review of the Federal Trade Commission as it celebrates its 100th anniversary. The subcommittee heard from academic experts about their perspective on the FTC’s mission and authority...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Charles E. Fuller, 46, of Corinth, New York, a Saratoga County Deputy Sheriff, was charged today by criminal complaint with attempting to aid and abet the possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 3, 2014. The committee will review the Obama administration’s proposed changes to labeling for generic drugs, examine ways the administration can better manage Medicare to protect seniors, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Defendants Ordered to Pay for Medical Monitoring for Victim-Workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Members of a three-person methamphetamine trafficking ring that operated in Lubbock, Texas, were sentenced this morning in federal court by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings. Two of the defendants, Michael Armenta, 19, and Fernando Valenzuela-Ceballos, 26, received lengthy federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A pediatrician with a practice in Staten Island and Brooklyn, N.Y., admitted today he accepted bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, N.J., its president and numerous associates, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley delivered the keynote address at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 28th Annual Observance of Black History Month Program held on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014. The event was held in Washington, D.C., and was attended by approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tavon Johnson, 24, of Washington D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 50 years on armed carjacking and armed robbery charges involving multiple incidents spread over two separate days, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Attempt To Steal Motorcycle On I-5 Leads To Arrest And Discovery Of Stolen Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A retired Marine Corps captain who was convicted of drugging and sexually abusing girls in Cambodia was sentenced today to 210 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Permits Required Seven Days Per Week to Hike Half Dome Cables.
