News from January 2014
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Virginia. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. ALEXANDRIA, Va. - James Glenn Warner, 44, of Manassas, Virginia, was arrested today and charged with soliciting bribes from executives working for a private company on a contract that Warner managed out...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Darren Scott Murphy, 26, of Electra and Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced yesterday, by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, following his guilty plea in July 2013 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine and one count...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: An alternate vaccine delivery system for newborn chicks has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists to improve vaccination against intestinal diseases like coccidiosis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Mayetta, Kan., man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal charge arising from a domestic assault that took place on tribal lands, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for his role in a scheme in which he and others stole business checks from the mail in New Jersey and Connecticut, altered them and cashed them through a series of conspirators, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that it has filed a criminal information in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging an Old Forge pharmacist with submitting false insurance claims for non-existent prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced John C. Gaglione, Jr. (49, Lakeland) to 33 months in federal prison for trafficking in counterfeit labels. As part of his sentence, the court entered a money judgment in the amount of $365,000, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Gaglione was also ordered to pay $180,000 in restitution. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after President Obama delivered his 2014 State of the Union address...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement as the people of El Salvador head to the polls to choose a new president this Sunday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for Guam, announced that DWAYNE J. SAN NICOLAS, BALBINO K. LEON GUERRERO and DEDRICK J. AGUON, were sentenced today by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood in the District Court of Guam.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Rahil Akhtar, 37, of Eagle, Idaho, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge for acquiring and obtaining a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud and deception, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Akhtar was a dentist licensed to practice in the state of Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Sean McWhirter, 30, of Memphis, TN, was sentenced today to one year and one day in federal prison following his guilty plea to one count of transportation of individuals in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution (Mann Act), announced United States Attorney Edward L. Stanton III, and A. Todd McCall, Special Agent in Charge of the Memphis Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement after President Obama's State of the Union Address...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: ST.LOUIS - The Executive Board of the Midwest HIDTA has recognized Omaha DEA's Task Force Tactical Diversion Squad with the 2013 Outstanding Prescription Drug Investigative Effort Award for 2013. This award is given to the initiative or group that exhibits outstanding investigative results in utilizing the cooperative spirit and tenets of the HIDTA Program in the disruption of drug trafficking organizations involving the diversion of controlled prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Defendant faces prison time; must repay EnerVest for damage to computer system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton Tuesday returned an indictment against Carlos Mendez, a citizen of Guatemala, charging failure to depart the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former postal worker pleaded guilty today to stealing more than 200 video games from the mail.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Corker, members of the committee, it is an honor to appear before you today as President Obama’s nominee to serve as the next United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced that Dr. Palaniappa Molian, of Ames, pled guilty on Jan. 24, 2014, to two felony counts relating to false statements made to the National Science Foundation.
