News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today sent the following letter to all of his House Republican colleagues urging their support for an extension of federal unemployment insurance...
By State Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Rep. Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding Dennis Rodman’s latest trip to North Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose J. Romero, 39, a non-Indian resident of Isleta Pueblo, was sentenced on Jan. 3, 2014 to 18 months of probation for his misdemeanor simple assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Gary Allen Mitchell, age 43, of Salisbury, Maryland, today to 13 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery. Judge Motz enhanced Mitchell’s sentence upon find that he is a career offender based on two prior federal bank robbery convictions - one each in Maryland and Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, January 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JORDAN MARSH, 27, of South Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Tuesday, January 7, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Paurotis Pond Closed for Nesting Season 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Jill Dail, age 59, of Cambridge, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to bank fraud in connection with a scheme in which she and her brother, Jeffrey Dail, fraudulently obtained mortgage loans in the names of family members, using the proceeds for their own benefit.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau has extended the deadline for public comment on the Draft General Management Plan and Wilderness Study/Environmental Impact Statement for Channel Islands National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ILLEGAL CASH STRUCTURING SCHEME. BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A former mining supply businessman was sentenced to federal prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to structuring thousands of dollars in bank transactions, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Michael J. Prasatek, Sr., 67, of Bluefield, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay $880,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheldon David Weisman, 56, was sentenced this morning to 51 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing an Albuquerque-area bank in March 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Matthew Louis Brown, 25, pleaded guilty this morning to a domestic assault by a habitual offender charge, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: CMS top security official testified that she recommended denying the authority to launch HealthCare.gov but other officials decided to go ahead anyway. Teresa Fryer, The Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), testified in a transcribed interview...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 38 members to the National Potato Promotion Board. Each representative will serve a three-year term of office beginning March 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Justin Levar Taylor, 33, of Houston, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in the robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank on Kirby Drive in Houston in December 2012, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Taylor and three others - Aaron Derrow, 43, Terrance Jackson, 35, and Willie Wright III, 32, all also of Houston - each pleaded guilty in the case.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) commended the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for moving forward on key proposals S(tsndj1yadvvloy4xjpiaalpc))/inspection.aspx?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that the United States and the State of Washington have reached a civil settlement on behalf of the United States Department of Health and Human Services which administers the Medicare program and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Serigne Diokhane, 39, of Woonsocket, R.I., a native of Dakar, Senegal, was convicted today by a federal court jury in Providence of making false representations to immigration officials when applying for permanent residency in the United States. Diokhane faces up to five years in federal prison, followed by up to 3 years supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000 when he is sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mary M. Lisi on April 3, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Orville Dwight Hylton (40, Riverview), on a federal complaint, charging him with theft of government property. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment for each offense.
