News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSEPH DESMARET pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to participating in a scheme in which he accepted over $10,000 in cash bribes in exchange for his votes, as a member of the Spring Valley Board...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking information and documents relating to the agency’s communications with environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J. man has been found guilty of robbing a bank at gunpoint, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J.- A Hudson County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 97 months in prison for sexually abusing a sleeping woman aboard a flight from Phoenix to Newark Liberty International Airport in August 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, February 5, 2014, at 9:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches Be Prevented?"
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. COLUMBUS - Jason C. Grossman, 31, of Westerville, Ohio was sentenced in U.S. District Court to five years in prison for viewing and downloading child pornography...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today issued the following statement regarding the House of Representatives vote to approve the conference agreement on the Agricultural Act of 2014 (HR.2642). The five-year farm bill was approved on a 251-166 vote on Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Carlos M. Rodriguez (25, Apopka) yesterday pleaded guilty to theft of the United States mail. Rodriguez faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - The National Prisoner of War Museum will be hosting historian Justin Vance from Hawaii Pacific University on Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014 at 1:00 pm. Dr. Vance will be giving a program in the auditorium entitled, "Hawaiians and POWs from Hawaii in the American Civil War.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A central Illinois farmer, Robert James Printz, 46, of Fairbury, Ill., and Timothy Boerma, 37, a former manager of Towanda Grain Company, were sentenced today for their respective roles in a scheme to defraud the elevator, Printz’s creditors, and others. Chief U.S. District Judge James...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Warning and a Wind Advisory in effect for the region affecting the Outer Banks Group units, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site and Wright Brothers National Memorial, by mid- afternoon on Tuesday, January 28.The storm is expected to have strong winds, significant snowfall levels and icy conditions that will continue through Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas- Three defendants, who pleaded guilty in 2013 to their respective roles in a major methamphetamine distribution conspiracy operating in Wichita Falls, Texas, were sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Keeping College Within Reach: Sharing Best Practices for Serving Low-Income and First Generation Students." During the hearing, members learned about institutional efforts to better serve disadvantaged students, while also exploring opportunities to strengthen related federal programs and initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan sentenced James Daniel Kasper (29, Jacksonville) to 20 years in federal prison for using a child to produce child pornography. Kasper was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release, following his incarceration, and to register as a sex offender. Kasper has been held in the custody of the United States Marshals Service since his arrest on March 20, 2013, in Jacksonville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier was indicted by a federal grand jury today for stealing from the mail.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today called for a bipartisan and comprehensive approach to rebuild the nation’s critical minerals supply chain to prevent potential shortages of materials critical to the defense, energy, electronics, medical, and other industries.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: “The sockeye salmon fishery isn’t just economically significant for the state of Washington - it’s inextricably linked to its history and culture," said Secretary Pritzker. “Because returns of sockeye salmon were so low and caused significant losses of revenues, the fishery qualified as a resource disaster under the nation’s fishing law."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: A former Puerto Rico Department of Corrections officer was sentenced today to serve 811 months in prison for his role in providing armed security for three drug transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Pavel Zborovskiy, 57, of Brooklyn, N.Y., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to pay and receive illegal health care kickbacks in connection with a $13 million health care fraud and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, a Russian national also known as “Gribodemon” and “Harderman,” has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud for his role as the primary developer and distributor of the malicious software known as “SpyEye,” which, according to industry estimates, has infected over 1.4 million computers in the United States and abroad.
