News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

News from January 2014


The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


U.S. - NAFTA Trade Exceeds $100B for First Time on Record

News Release: U.S. - NAFTA Trade Exceeds $100B for First Time on Record


Former CEO Sentenced For Shipping Commercial Industrial Machines To Iran

News Release: ROME, Ga. - Mark Mason Alexander, a/k/a Musa Mahmood Ahmed, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to send water-jet cutting machines to Iran in violation of the United States trade embargo.


Former Caregiver Sentenced

News Release: April Darlene Avery To Serve 30 Months For Stealing From Elderly Woman.


News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Defendant Daniel Cruz Stone, age 34, and Daniel Manglona Cruz, age 57, were sentenced today in the District Court of Guam. Cruz is Stone’s uncle. Each pled to an Information charging Conspiracy to Distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.


News Release: Theodore Sweeten, the president of Symtech International, Inc. (“Symtech"), was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to 48 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. As part of the sentence, Sweeten was ordered to forfeit more than $600,000 to the government...


News Release: St. Thomas, USVI B District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Rodney E. Miller, Sr., former Chief Executive Officer of Schneider Regional Medical Center, to 21 months in federal prison for income tax fraud, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe and Internal Revenue Service Special Agent in Charge Jose A. Gonzalez.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif.) - Today, one marijuana cultivator entered a guilty plea and one was sentenced for their involvement in separate cases resulting from Operation Mercury, a six-county eradication and enforcement effort that focused on large-scale marijuana cultivation operations on agricultural land in the Central Valley, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


Harkin: Senate Moves a Step Closer to Passing Extension of Federal Unemployment Insurance

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, after the U.S. Senate voted to start debate on the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said Congress was one step closer to passing the bill. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, has...


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sergio Saenz-Amaya, 30, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, was sentenced earlier today to 120 months in federal prison for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms conviction. Saenz-Amaya will be deported after he completes his prison sentence.


Defendant Sentenced For Possession Of A Firearm By A Convicted Felon

News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that John Edward Baker, 42, of Lizella, Georgia was sentenced on Tuesday, January 7, 2014, to serve thirty (30) months imprisonment in a case of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Court Judge, in Macon, Georgia.


Federal Jury Finds Convicted Felon Guilty of Possessing a Firearm

News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Brian K. Hatten (33, Orlando) guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Based on his prior felony convictions, Hatten faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 28, 2014, before U.S. District Court Judge John Antoon, II.


Former Head Teller At Lynrocten Credit Union Pleads Guilty

News Release: Teresa Wieringo Humphries Admits To Embezzling Over $1 Million.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cristian K. Watson, 20, a resident of Tierra Azul, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with assault resulting in serious bodily injury under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.


News Release: The owner and operator of a Miami medical clinic pleaded guilty today in connection with multiple health care fraud schemes involving the defunct clinic Merfi Corp.


Truth or Consequences Woman Pleads Guilty to Prescription Drug Trafficking Charges

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Roberta Capps, 53, of Truth or Consequences, N.M., pled guilty this morning to prescription drug trafficking charges in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. Capps entered her guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Colorado man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to transport women across state lines for prostitution in New Jersey and other states, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.