News from January 2014
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The Agricultural Act of 2014 Represents Major Reform of American Agriculture Policy
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that a total of 22 defendants have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking offenses in federal and state court as a result of Operation Pipe Cleaner.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Today, Channel Islands National Park Superintendent Russell Galipeau and Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Superintendent Chris Mobley celebrate their annual volunteer recognition event.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bipartisan bills as part of its ongoing pursuit of an all-of-the-above energy strategy. H.R. 2126, the Better Buildings Act, advanced by voice vote and H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, passed by a vote of 29 to 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Kevin Lee Bennett, 49, of Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and Linda M. Swacina, District Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Shawn Sisco, 49, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for preparing false federal income tax returns. Sisco, who owned Sisco Accounting, a home-based tax preparation business, falsified the itemized deductions on her clients' returns in order to obtain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announces that in federal court yesterday Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced former real estate appraiser LARRY MAX MCDANIEL, 70, of Vienna, West Virginia, to 66 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DELLONTE RASHAUN SEBURN, 35, of Hyattsville, Maryland, to 132 months of imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release. SEBURN previously pled guilty on October 8, 2013 to one count of Bank Robbery.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) today introduced the Chemical Safety and Drinking Water Protection Act, which gathers into one place the tools to provide oversight of chemical facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Hackensack, N.J., dealer in ancient coins today admitted filing a false federal income tax return for the 2006 tax year, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - James Brian Rivers, 23, of Dallas, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography. He faces a total statutory penalty of...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama's State of the Union Address...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed reports that CTIA - The Wireless Association and two Los Angeles broadcasters, KLCS and KJLA, are seeking permission from the FCC to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Richard Reyes, a member of the Almighty Imperial Gangsters, has been convicted at trial for his role in violent acts as a member of a criminal street gang that operated in Northwest Indiana and is accused of engaging in drug trafficking and acts of violence, including murder, attempted murder and robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former regional director of the Eastern Region of Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc. (Pop Warner) today admitted stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization and using the funds for his personal benefit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: 132 BALD EAGLES SPOTTED DURING LAKE MEAD NRA ANNUAL SURVEY.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dallas Chase Barth, 22, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 27 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for assaulting an Indian with a dangerous weapon on Aug. 28, 2013, in Taos Pueblo.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will accept applications for easements from landowners who want to enroll floodplains impacted by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. Applications will be accepted until April 18, 2014. This is the second round of applications to be accepted.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released the following joint statement Monday: “As indicated in the Justice Department’s filing with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the administration is acting to allow more detailed disclosures about the ...
