News from January 2014
By DOT News Wire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: “In his 2014 State of the Union Address, President Obama laid out a bold vision for increasing opportunity for all Americans. The road to better opportunities can take many forms – a bridge that helps parents get home faster, a transit system that connects a community to new jobs, or a port that helps businesses sell to more markets – and we at the Department of Transportation look forward to doing our part to help connect all Americans to the 21st century economy.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today announced a full committee hearing to discuss early childhood education and care programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for illegally possessing firearms, including assault rifles and a stolen handgun, which he sold to a confidential informant, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to work with state and local governments to deploy smart policies that drive investment and create jobs, the Energy Department today recognized the city of Los Angeles, Calif., for its leadership in the Department’s Better Buildings Challenge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Eric Morrison, 22, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and in Lithuania have used a NIST-developed laboratory model of a simplified cell membrane to accurately detect and measure a protein associated with a serious gynecological disease, bacterial vaginosis (BV), at extraordinarily low concentrations. The work illustrates how the artificial membrane could be used to improve disease diagnosis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Daniel Joseph Dalton, 38, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possessing sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Dalton was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on July 23, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. Magistrate Judge Joel B. Toomey today sentenced Juan Carlos Angel (35) to pay a $10,000 fine for engaging in a pattern of hiring illegal aliens. Angel is the owner of Peppers 5 Mexican Restaurant, on Atlantic Boulevard and other locations, in Jacksonville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Raul Eraso-Mejia (54, Cali, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with conspiring with others to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine, knowing and intending that such substance would be unlawfully imported into the United States. Eraso-Mejia faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, up to life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A central Illinois family farm business, known collectively as Dowson Farms, based in Divernon, Ill., has paid $5,364,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it conspired to avoid statutory caps on federal farm subsidy payments from 2002 through 2008, under terms of an...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Danny Banks, Special Agent in Charge, Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), announce today that defendant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A certified public accountant who was involved in the auditing process at a publicly-traded company based in Chicago was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly engaging in insider trading of the company’s securities that made him an illegal profit of more than $286,000 in 2012. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI, OHIO -- Regina Shields, 41, of Cincinnati, Ohio was sentenced in US. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison, and ordered to pay $202,806...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The owners of a framing company in Spring Hill, Kan., were sentenced Wednesday to federal prison for harboring undocumented workers, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Weaver Seed of Oregon, Crabtree, Ore., has paid $350 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: A Seattle man has been indicted by the grand jury for sex trafficking and transporting a victim for purposes of prostitution, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. DESMOND TREVAIN MANAGO, 25, will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court later this week. According to the indictment, between...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement in response to the President’s State of the Union address...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park, in cooperation with the Central Federal Lands Highway Division of the Federal Highway Administration, will begin construction of approximately 10 miles of Park Route 11 (Pinto Basin Road) on Monday, Feb. 10, 2014. The primary objective of the project is to improve safety conditions for the Pinto Basin Road.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Eliot Engel (D-NY-16) released the following statement after voting against the farm bill conference report, which includes $8.5 billion in cuts to the SNAP program. Congressman Engel is the Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and served as a conferee on the Farm Bill Conference Committee.
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee markup of H.Res. 447 and H.R. 938.
