News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 65-year-old New Jersey resident was charged yesterday with making false statements and representations in connection with a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) insured mortgage with intent to defraud the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Correctional Officer Smuggled Drugs for BGF into Baltimore Correctional Facility; BGF Inmate Had Sex with Correctional Officers and Directed Them to Smuggle Contraband into the Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Christopher Wallace, 25, of Bastrop, La., was sentenced last week (Jan. 10, 2014) by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 65 months in prison and five years of supervised release for attempting to receive child pornography. He pleaded guilty on September 5, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a business meeting to consider nominations pending before the Committee. The Committee approved three nominations, all by voice vote. The nominations now go to the full Senate for consideration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Norris, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Rasondo Maurice Norris, who attempted to smuggle cocaine and a Mac-11 machine gun onto a commercial flight has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after Senate Republicans twice blocked an extension of federal unemployment insurance, which expired Dec. 28 and has now cut off benefits to 1.5 million, a figure that grows by 72,000 people, on average, each week...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: In Albuquerque, NM, today, 64-year-old Danny Burnett, a retired educator and husband of a former federal prosecutor, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release for leaking information regarding a criminal investigation to a target announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after learning that the Department of Justice is not expected to file criminal charges stemming from an investigation over political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), despite the fact that the investigation is not complete...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 17 members and 17 alternates to the Cotton Board. Each representative will serve a three-year term ending Dec. 31, 2016.
By DOL 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: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Cranberry Township, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Chiricahua National Monument (NM) Superintendent H. Lane Baker announced today that the monument will offer a series of ranger-led dark sky viewing opportunities this winter. "The Chiricahua Mountains are in an area of spectacular dark night skies," said Baker. "Some of the world's largest telescopes...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the following statement on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling overturning the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality regulations.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 13 members to serve on the National Watermelon Promotion Board. Appointments will begin immediately.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A vendor admitted today to conspiring to pay bribes of approximately $40,000 to NJ Transit employees to obtain snow removal contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that WILLIAM LECKEY, 48, of Buffalo, N.Y., formerly of Madison, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and House Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-Mich) highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: $57.8 Million in Civil and Criminal Actions, $62.4 Million in Forfeitures.
