News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Raynell Vaxter, 53, of Gary, Indiana was sentenced by Chief Judge Philip P. Simon to 120 months imprisonment with 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony offense of being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to documents filed in this case, in April 2011, Gary Police responded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Two individuals charged with running a telemarketing operation that defrauded Spanish-speaking consumers were sentenced yesterday in Miami federal district court, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced. Daniel Carrasco, 54, was sentenced to serve 121 months in...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the U.S. State Department designated Ansar al-Sharia as a foreign terrorist organization and confirmed that the group was “involved" in the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya. On Wednesday, when a news report of the imminent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Mohammad Jamal Rashid, 45, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy related to the illegal importation and attempted trafficking of counterfeit drugs and one count of receiving and delivering misbranded drugs, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) applauded the historic and continued success of anti-smoking efforts ahead of the 50th anniversary of the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health. The most recent evidence of the extraordinary progress made over the last five decades comes...
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 JEREMY EDWARD RAMIREZ, age 27, of Stilwell, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 70 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of an Unregistered Firearm, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Sections 5861(d), 5845 and 5871.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed H.R. 3811 - the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act. This legislation, introduced by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), would require the Department of Health and Human Services to quickly notify Americans...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Jan. 13, 2014. The committee will continue its oversight of the president’s health care law, hold its opening hearing on the #CommActUpdate, and vote on legislation to help keep American electricity affordable and reliable.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: JAN 10 (MIDLAND, Texas) - Yesterday, authorities arrested 22 of the 35 individuals yesterday on federal and state drug charges announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, El Paso Division; United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Midland County District Attorney Teresa J. Clingman; and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rashad Slye, 23, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder while armed for the 2011 killing of a taxicab driver during a robbery in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent letters to the leaders of Bangladesh’s two main political parties, urging them to end the current deadlock, eschew street violence, and begin negotiations on a path toward free, fair, and inclusive elections. The letters also called on the leaders to reaffirm their commitment to improving labor conditions in Bangladesh’s garment industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown announced that Cory Timmons, an Atlanta, Georgia area resident, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge William Steele for a conspiracy to commit a RICO violation. Timmons received a sentence of 35 months and was ordered to pay restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced appointments to a newly created National Commission on Forensic Science.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 46-year-old Grapeland, Texas man has pleaded guilty to child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Jan. 13, 2014. The committee will continue its oversight of the president’s health care law, hold its opening hearing on the #CommActUpdate, and vote on legislation to help keep American electricity affordable and reliable.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film America Beyond the Color Line, Part 1 on Friday, Jan. 24, and Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Fourteen people from Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for violating federal narcotics trafficking and firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Richard E. Riedman, 40, of Webster, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to burglarize a railroad car and theft of an interstate shipment following a jury trial, was sentenced to 37 months in prison and ordered to pay $4,669.26 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: (Hagatna, Guam) - U.S. Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO announced today that the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands collected $575,199.11 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this amount, $542,674.11was collected in criminal actions and $32,525 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin today issued the following statement regarding yesterday’s release of a potentially dangerous chemical into the southern West Virginia water supply.
