News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Fort Moultrie has announced several fee-free days in 2014. The normal entrance fee will be waived on the following days.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement regarding today’s jobs report...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, welcomed the announcement by the Administration that a final rule issued today will help ensure that Medicaid’s home and community-based services programs provide full access...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Dear Prime Minister Netanyahu: I am writing to express my deep concern regarding troubling developments between the Israeli Chief Rabbinate and the American Jewish community. Specifically, I have become aware that the Chief Rabbinate has taken upon itself to unilaterally reject Jewish status letters...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Adrienne Pritchett, 42, of District Heights, Md., was sentenced today to 57 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. Pritchett has also agreed to pay full restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - U.S. Attorney Pamela C. Marsh announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida collected $6,255,150 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $5,272,499 was collected in criminal actions and $982,650 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Authorities arrested 28 individuals yesterday on federal and state drug charges announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Midland County District Attorney Teresa J. Clingman, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, El Paso Division, and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Defendant Charged In Heroin And Crack Cocaine Distribution Conspiracy And Related June 2011 Homicide In The Bronx.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Midland resident and land surveyor Steven Leonard Prewit, age 54, was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for possessing eight unregistered silencers in violation of National Firearms Registration requirements, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Valerie W. Johnson, 56, of Centreville, Illinois, was sentenced in United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois on one count of Health Care Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 42-year-old Farmersville, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Karl Cordova, Superintendent (520) 723-3172. Casa Grande Ruins Lecture Series held Weekly at Monument. COOLIDGE, AZ- On Wednesday January 15th, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in partnership with the Friends of Casa Grande Ruins, will kick off a lecture series for the general public. The first speaker...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney David Capp announced today that the Northern District of Indiana (NDIN) collected over $15 million in Fiscal Year 2013. This amount was the total of civil and criminal collections processed in the Northern District of Indiana as the result of efforts by the United States Attorney’s Office and other components of the Department of Justice. The budget for the United States Attorney’s Office for Fiscal Year 2013 was approximately $7.9 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Thomas Scott, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful possession of an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that GARY JAMES NEEL, age 40, of Wagoner, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today that the Southern District of Mississippi collected $6,820,790.70 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $6,309,767.24 was collected in criminal actions and $511,023.46 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: A former police officer in Alorton and Fairmont City who also served as a trustee of the Commonfields of Cahokia Public Water District and as the Alorton Director of Public Safety, was sentenced in US District Court on January 9, 2014, to two years in federal prison for wire fraud and tax evasion, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), along with 65 other members of Congress, wrote Ambassador Samantha Power, the Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), about the UN’s inadequate response to the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Specifically, the letter detailed how in October 2010, ...
