News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Computer security systems may one day get a boost from quantum physics, as a result of recent research from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Computer scientist Yi-Kai Liu has devised a way to make a security device that has proved notoriously difficult to build-a "one-shot" memory unit, whose contents can be read only a single time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 31-year-old Wilkes-Barre resident was sentenced to probation with home confinement by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion yesterday in Scranton.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 14, 2014 - During today’s House Natural Resources Committee oversight hearing on the Obama Administration’s decision to retroactively apply 2013 sequestration cuts to 2012 Secure Rural School (SRS) funds, the Obama Administration testified that states that have not repaid the funds may have them taken out of this year’s payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The owner of Carnegie-based Victory Security Agency was sentenced today in federal court to three years’ probation and a $30,000 fine payable within 30 days on his conviction of conspiracy, bribery of agent of an organization receiving federal funds and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Dewarren Antoine Lewis, a/k/a “Fella" (28, Orlando), guilty of two counts of bank robbery with assault and two counts of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nixa, Mo., man who was a co-owner of Greenleaf Companies has pleaded guilty in federal court to aiding and abetting a bank fraud conspiracy that was part of a multi-million-dollar mortgage investment scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Christopher A. Crofts announced today that Denver, Colorado resident Eugene Velarde has been convicted in federal court. A jury found Velarde guilty of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute, and to Distribute, Methamphetamine after a five-day jury trial in the U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. Velarde is scheduled to be sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on March 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Togiak area resident Jessie Anariak, age 50, was sentenced by the Hon. Sharon L. Gleason, United States District Court Judge, to a term of 15 months imprisonment for his actions arising from the illegal take of a walrus on Round Island in May, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Beverly man who sold child pornography and erotica was convicted today for mailing child pornography to a customer in Atlanta.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Defendant admits using false identities to “launder" the money from the sale of the stolen motor homes.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today advanced H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, authored by subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bipartisan, bicameral legislation provides a reasonable alternative to EPA’s proposed...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Just days before the launch of the health care exchanges, on Sept. 26, President Obama traveled to a community college in Maryland to build excitement for the start of open enrollment. The president told folks, “Like any law, like any big product launch, there are going to be some...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Nakia Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm was sentenced on January 9, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Jan. 13, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Mexican National Germain Zamarron Celis, 38, has entered a guilty plea to transferring obscene matter to a minor, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the U.S. Court of Appeals D.C. Circuit Court’s decision that strikes down part of the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Misael Perla, a/k/a “Irving" and “Weasal25, of Dallas, pleaded guilty this morning, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez, to two counts of possession of heroin with intent to distribute, the use of which caused the death of victims Alexandra Julia Moreno, 20, of Irving, Texas, and Cassidy Seward, 18, of Grapevine, Texas. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today advanced H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, authored by subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). The bipartisan, bicameral legislation provides a reasonable alternative to EPA’s proposed...
