News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Brady Verlo, age 22, of West Branch, Iowa, has been charged with one count of receipt of child pornography. The charge is contained in an Indictment filed on Jan. 28, 2014, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Peter J. Smith, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that the former leader of a large group of corrupt, Canadian based MoneyGram Agents has been resentenced to a lengthy term of incarceration for helping to defraud thousands of American citizens out of $4 million between January 2004 and April 2009.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Rita R. Colwell has joined the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the agency's primary private-sector policy advisory group. She is distinguished university professor both at the University of Maryland at College Park and The Johns Hopkins...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Linberto Gallardo-Gonzalez (42); Uriel Julio Tapia (35); Miguel Vasquez-Barrios (37), all of Colombia, South America; and Miguel Angel Sori-Ortiz (41, Dominican Republic), with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that STEPHEN JOYCE, 45, of Stamford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Maple Rapids Resident James Ortman Admits to Fraud in Conjunction with Federal Grants for Buildings he Formerly Owned in St. Johns, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOUGLAS CORBIN, 52,of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The National Safety Council has named Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Patrick Gallagher one of 2014's "CEOs Who 'Get It.'" The annual recognition honors leaders who demonstrate a personal commitment to world-class safety. Gallagher has made safety a priority at NIST throughout his tenure.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the HELP Committee approved eight nominees. The approved nominees include: Michael Keith Yudin to serve as Assistant Secretary for Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - IRA ROBERT SCHILLING, 42, a former resident of Moore, Oklahoma, pled guilty today to committing disaster-benefits fraud in connection with a claim for benefits through the Air Force’s Safe Haven program following the May 2013 tornados in Moore, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, urged the House of Representatives to consider his bill, the Innovate to Deliver Act, to authorize the United States Postal Service to expand the services it offers, including a proposal...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: “Thank you M__ Speaker. I yield myself as much time as I may consume.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Hanes Geo Components, Winston-Salem, N.C., has paid $350 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced today that charges have been brought this week against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Four defendants involved in a multi-kilogram cocaine trafficking organization pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Thomas, announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. Angel L. Negron, 53, of Puerto Rico; Edwin Monsanto, 53 of St. Thomas; Eddie Lopez-Lopez, 37,of Puerto...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A northern California man pleaded guilty today to transporting a minor female from San Jose, Calif., to Las Vegas, Nev., to work as a prostitute during May 2013, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that Raul Eraso-(54, Cali, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to an Information charging him...
By State Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed legislation to strengthen the strategic partnership between U.S. and Israel and express support for the people of Ukraine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Physicist Deborah Jin of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been named the recipient of the 2014 Comstock Prize in Physics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
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