News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service has issued a decision regarding the future of the Blow-Me-Down Farm at Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, concluding the park's environmental assessment (EA) planning process. The decision document, known as a Finding of No Significant Impact, or "FONSI," describes the alternatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement in recognition of National School Choice Week from Jan 26th - Feb 1st.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of a tax preparation business admitted today his role in the preparation of income tax returns with false information, Assistant Attorney General for the Tax Division Kathryn Keneally and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives debated H.R. 7, the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act" on the House Floor. Consideration of this bill by the full House of Representatives comes just weeks following a U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on the legislation, and an expedited Full Committee Markup. As debate was underway on the legislation, Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) delivered the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: A Parma man was charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud for his role in defrauding the Cleveland Clinic out of approximately $179,040, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that a Grand Jury sitting in Fort Wayne, Indiana, returned the following Indictment on Jan. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - Francesco Gulino, an Italian national, was sentenced to 46 months in federal prison for illegal reentry into the United States after being deported, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. On April 20, 2011, Mr. Gulino was deported to his native country of Italy after completing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: One Fugitive Sought. HOUSTON - Seven men from Houston have been charged in two separate and unrelated cases involving the robbery or attempted robbery of armored cars operating in and around Houston, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Stephen L. Morris...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Sherry Lively, 46 of Crab Orchard, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Beckley to obtaining oxycodone painkillers by fraud. In July of 2013, Lively took a forged prescription for oxycodone to a local pharmacy. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Justin Woodie, 22, of Beckley, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Beckley to obtaining oxycodone painkillers by fraud. In July of 2013, Woodie attempted to obtain oxycodone pills from a local pharmacy using a forged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SENTRELL BOOKHARDT, 27, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing a machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Carlos McClammy, 20, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to obstruct, delay and affect commerce by robbery; aiding and abetting bank robbery; brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence; and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will deliver an opening statement at today’s 2 p.m. joint subcommittee hearing that will examine the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal, which began last week. The hearing entitled, “Implementation of...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Sterling Rivers a/k/a “Little Real"26, of Lebanon, Tennessee, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court to 28 years in prison for conspiring to distribute large quantities of crack cocaine and cocaine, as part of his involvement in a criminal street gang called the Unknown Vice Lords, announced David Rivera, U. S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 28, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the President’s State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: This Represents the Second Largest Federal Health Care Fraud Settlement in the Eastern District of Kentucky.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Preparations are now underway for C.E. Williams, a contractor for the nonprofit Gettysburg Foundation, to remove the old Visitor Center parking lot on North Cemetery Ridge in Gettysburg National Military Park. Once the asphalt has been removed, the contractor will regrade the area to its historic profile in 1863, and plant meadow grasses. Historic fencing on the site will be built during the Gettysburg Foundation's "Friends of Gettysburg" annual volunteer day in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARC JEAN, 44, a citizen of Haiti residing in Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin...
