News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Corey Washington, age 29, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for robbing a clothing store. Judge Garbis enhanced Washington’s sentence upon finding that Washington is a career offender based on two previous convictions for armed robbery and possession with intent to distribute drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Total Care Services and its owner have agreed to pay $187,500 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly billing Medicaid for patient services for which they had no, insufficient, or inaccurate documentation.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: Glacier National Park is offering Winter Snowshoe Walks every Saturday and Sunday at 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. beginning Saturday, Jan. 11, Winter Trails Day. This day is celebrated throughout the country as an opportunity to enjoy the outdoors and discover the fitness and social benefits of outdoor activities. The snowshoe walks will continue through Saturday, March 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement in response to the CMS Report that showed a 0.1% decline in National Health Expenditures (NHE) as a percent of GDP from 2011 to 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Damian Ard, 33, of Lockport, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, cocaine base, was sentenced to six years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $3 million to support clean energy business incubators that provide critical services to entrepreneurs and small businesses and accelerate the commercialization of clean energy technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Charles Ray Benavidez, 33, an Aviation Ordnanceman Second Class, serving at the Naval Air Station Lemoore, pleaded guilty today to one count of sex trafficking of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: (DETROIT) - On Friday, the Obama administration announced two executive actions to strengthen the federal firearms background check system. The Department of Justice (DOJ) is issuing a proposed rule to clarify terminology used in prohibiting firearms purchases on the basis of certain mental health reasons...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey insurance broker and the former mayor of Toms River, N.J., were each sentenced today for offenses arising from separate schemes involving officials of Toms River and the former insurance broker for the Toms River Regional School District Francis X. Gartland, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III sentenced JesusTorres Portillo, 23, of Burlington, North Carolina, to 120 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. Portillopreviously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Matthew Navejar, 39, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 66 months in prison for unlawfully possessing firearms and distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Navejar to serve three years of supervised release and to forfeit his interest in two guns. He pleaded guilty to the charges on June 25, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A Mercer County man who falsified mandatory mine safety reports while employed at several West Virginia mining operations was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Craig Belcher, 37, of Bluefield, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - An East Boston man pleaded guilty today to armed robbery of a bank in Peabody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, N.J., man admitted today that he distributed images of child sexual abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Senate Financial and Contracting Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) highlighted a new Government...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two former chief executive officers of PetroTiger Ltd. - a British Virgin Islands oil and gas company with operations in Colombia and offices in New Jersey - have been charged for their alleged participation in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials in violation of the...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a statement submitted today to the Congressional Record, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that Congress has a duty to restore federal unemployment insurance for the 1.3 million Americans who lost those...
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement following reports in Cambodia of elite military units and plainclothes policemen beating and murdering peaceful protesters...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film In Remembrance of Martin on Friday, Jan. 17, and Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 3, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced it is proposing a regulation that will clarify who, due to mental health reasons, is prohibited under federal law from receiving, possessing, shipping or transporting firearms. In addition to providing general guidance on the federal law, this clarification will ...
