News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: -January 14th, 2014. Karl Cordova, Superintendent (520) 723-3172. Casa Grande Ruins Lecture Series held Weekly at Monument. COOLIDGE, AZ- On Wednesday Jan 22nd, at noon, Dr. Doug Gann, a preservation archeologist with Archaeology Southwest in Tucson, will present Archaeology through a Virtual Lens -...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. announced today that the Middle District of Alabama collected over $2.4 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $2,332,163 was collected in criminal actions and $69,688 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on charges of violating federal extortion and bribery laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass legislation introduced by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, to amend the Presidential Records Act. The legislation, the Presidential and Federal Records Act Amendments (H.R. 1233), institutes new guidelines and procedures to ensure the timely release of presidential records.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Portland, Ore. - U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon prosecuted a record number of sex trafficking defendants in 2013. In 2012, the U.S. Attorney’s Office created the “Gang and Sex Trafficking Unit" which included additional prosecutorial...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today sent a letter to President Obama urging him to lift the prohibition on exporting crude oil produced in the United States. Doing so, Murkowski wrote, will allow American producers to access global markets, which will boost production, protect jobs, and increase our energy security.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: During the week of January 13-17 Fort Sumter National Monument is preserving the ornamental iron fence around Osceola’s grave, located at Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island. This preservation work is made possible, in part, by entrance fees paid at Fort Moultrie. This is your fee dollars at work.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: United States Charges John Bujak with Bankruptcy Fraud, Money Laundering and Obstruction of Justice.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 14, 2014 - The House Natural Resources Committee released an interim Majority staff report today detailing information uncovered during the Committee’s ongoing investigation into the Obama Administration’s decision to retroactively apply 2013 sequestration cuts to 2012 Secure...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on January 9, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former co-owners of a Palmer equipment company pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to conspiracy and wire fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Dear Ms. Wright: We are writing to raise several questions about aspects of the “Accessing Higher Education Track" of the Department’s Transition Assistance Program, a class that our staffs recently viewed on DVD. In August 2011, President Obama directed the Departments of Defense (DOD), Veterans Affairs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Wildcat Concrete Services, Inc. ("Wildcat"), a Kansas corporation, has paid $372,750 to the North American Wetlands Conservation Fund as part of a non-prosecution agreement with the United States arising from the destruction of cliff swallow nests during a bridge repair project...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - On Wednesday morning, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral argument in United States v. Castleman, a federal criminal case originating in the Western District of Tennessee, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee members today raised concerns about the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) unprecedented intrusion into family farms. In a letter to OSHA Assistant Secretary David Michaels, committee leaders requested documents and communications surrounding guidance that unilaterally extends OSHA jurisdiction over farms with 10 or fewer employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Wilfredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, announce that Jerrold C. Tieder, 47, of Dania, Florida and Tropical Fish Transhippers, Inc. (TFT), a Florida corporation...
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled, “South Sudan’s Broken Promise? " TOMORROW at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. CLEVELAND - Twenty people were indicted for their roles in a conspiracy that brought heroin and other drugs to Akron, and an Akron man was charged with providing heroin that resulted in an overdose death, law enforcement officials...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kil Seok (“Michael") Seo, 49, formerly of Fairfax, Va., pleaded guilty today to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges in connection with his involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that two men who separately traded different handguns to convicted drug dealer Frank Caraballo, of Holyoke, Massachusetts were recently sentenced by Chief Judge Reiss of the United States District Court in Rutland.
