News from February 2014
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: New York - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the recent crackdown against demonstrators in Venezuela.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today once again called on Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to address the life-threatening situation in King Cove, Alaska created by Jewell’s refusal to allow a few miles of road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge to link the isolated community with the state’s second-longest runway.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: On Feb. 13, 2014, Rachel S. Holt, 40, of Sparta, Illinois, was sentenced on three methamphetamine-related offenses, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Democratic leadership and the chairs of the committees involved in drafting the Affordable Care Act have joined a brief defending the use of tax credits on federally-run health insurance Marketplaces in the case of Halbig v. Sebelius in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Curtis Lee Alemany, 28, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 96 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, 5th Judicial District Attorney Janetta B. Hicks, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Commander Mike Wilson of the Lea County Drug Task Force (LCDTF).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Carlos Cortinas, 40, and Mark Anthony Stokes, 36, of Three Rivers, have received significant sentences following their convictions of sexual exploitation of a child, commonly known as production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Both men pleaded guilty Monday, Oct. 21, 2013.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, responded to the renewed violence in Ukraine in which large numbers of protestors and police have been seriously injured, including several deaths.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Stoystown, PA - The National Park Service is pleased to announce a partnership with the Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association. This partnership supports Flight 93 National Memorial's efforts to complete the transcriptions from the Oral History Project. The goal of this project is the long-term preservation of both the individual and collective story of United Airlines Flight 93 and the events surrounding Sept. 11, 2001, for future generations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: On February 4, 2014, Michael A. Boyt, Sr., 41, of Marion, and Matthew S. Beers, 30, of Johnston City, were charged by indictment with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three people linked to a Glendale medical clinic - including a doctor who took money to let his name be used thousands times on bogus prescriptions - were found guilty today of federal fraud charges related to a $20 million scheme to defraud Medicare and Medi-Cal by, among other things, fraudulently prescribing expensive anti-psychotic medications and then re-billing the government for those drugs over and over.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Dr. Roque Joel Ramirez, 49, of Robstown, has entered a plea of guilty to mail fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: On Feb. 13, 2014, Kenneth R. Tyner, 53, Elkville, Illinois, pled guilty to conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Cumberland MD. - The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) is pleased to announce that repairs to the towpath just upstream of Evitts Creek Aqueduct near Mile Post 181.2 will begin in February. A large washout that has threatened towpath continuity for some time will be repaired...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - The Humane Society of the United States is presenting its 2014 Humane Law Enforcement Awards to law enforcement in the Middle District of Alabama who are responsible for taking down the second largest dog fighting organization in the country. Two FBI Agents; one Auburn Police Detective;...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man was convicted Tuesday on federal firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Jessie Mae Brown Pollard, of Northport, Alabama, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court to serve a total of 25 years in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit kidnapping, kidnapping, and obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 18, 2014, Ty Colin Bia, 22, of Many Farms, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow to 204 months in prison, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Bia is also required to register as a sex offender in compliance with federal, state and local laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Burlington County, N.J., woman who used a debit card fraud scheme to steal more than $500,000 from clothing retailers was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nicholas Richard Blume, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a not guilty plea this morning to a criminal complaint charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm. Blume was ordered detained pending trial based on judicial findings that he poses a danger to the community and a risk of flight.
