News from February 2014
By DOE 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: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that John Peter Vreeland (40, Land O’Lakes) today pleaded guilty to bribery by a public official and theft of mail by a postal employee. He faces a maximum penalty of twenty years in federal prison, and a $500,000.00 fine. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
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, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
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, announced that on Thursday, March 6 the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the recent events in Ukraine and the next steps forward for U.S. foreign policy in the region. The hearing entitled, “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine " will begin at 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Elton Lee Flenaugh and Deje D. Silas have been sentenced to federal prison for credit card fraud and identity theft crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Lawrence “Stoney" Scriver sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Walter Heinrich Weiss, 61, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, to conspiring to make a false statement in a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) transaction. The charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J.- With tax season already upon us, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Shantelle P. Kitchen, Newark Field Office, are reminding New Jersey taxpayers about the importance of filing complete and accurate tax returns by the April 15 deadline.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard Klaffka, 56, of Holland, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint in connection with the defendant’s receipt of benefits from the Veterans’ Administration and Workers’ Compensation under false pretenses. Klaffka is charged with making false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud, and fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Michael Brian Dunkel, 60, of Merritt Island, Fl., was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release, for fraudulently obtaining more than $4.4 million in government contract payments that should have gone to disadvantaged small businesses. Dunkel also was ordered to pay a $12,500 fine and $2,960,697.37 in forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Ronald J. Verrochio, Postal Inspector in Charge, United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Drew J. Breakspear...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Saipan, CNMI - Annette Nakatsukas Basa, age 40, pleaded guilty on Feb. 27, 2014, to sex trafficking of children. The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands Alicia A.G. Limtiaco. According to the plea agreement, Basa knowingly...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three Kansas City, Mo., area men were convicted in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to steal nearly $1 million worth of trucks and trailers and their cargo.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Feb. 25, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, JONATHAN LEE OLIVER, 41, of Missoula, Montana, pleaded guilty to Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, and Structuring. Oliver's pleas could result in a term of imprisonment of up to 20 years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court: Derek Davenport, 28, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was sentenced to a total of 90 months imprisonment with 2 years supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony offenses of possession with the ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 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 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement to initiate a Clean Water Act (CWA) section 404(c) veto process for the Pebble Mine in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Today's action continues EPA's attempt to predetermine the fate of the Pebble Mine before proponents have even applied for a federal environmental permit.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on House passage of H.R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act and H.R. 2804, the Achieving Less Excess in Regulation and Requiring Transparency (ALERRT) Act of 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national living in Medway was convicted yesterday of fraudulently receiving more than $120,000 in federal housing funds.
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 Commerce 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...
