News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

News from January 2014


Chairman Menendez Statement on Latest Developments in Ukraine

News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the latest developments in Ukraine.


OSHA extends comment period on proposed silica rule to February 11

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending the public comment period for the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica for an additional 15 days to Feb. 11, 2014.


A Look Ahead — Week of January 27 – 31

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...


News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Rigoberto Cabrera, 37, of Miami-Dade County, was sentenced today for his participation in a tax preparation...


Jury Convicts Former Air Force Firearms Instructor of Embezzling Government Funds & Unlicensed Dealing in Firearms

News Release: Brunswick, GA - Timothy John Arnold, 43, of Allenstown, New Hampshire (formerly of Brunswick, Georgia) was found guilty earlier this week by a federal jury in Brunswick, Georgia on nine charges relating to the embezzlement and conversion of federal funds, the unauthorized disposition of federal property, ...


Sewickley Woman Sentenced To 10 Years In Federal Prison For Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Sewickley, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment on her conviction of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg returned a 17-count indictment against Howard Ginting, age 29, of Harrisburg, PA, on Jan. 22, 2014. The Indictment charges Ginting with tax evasion and with failing...


News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- In celebration of African American History Month, the public is invited to hear professor Douglas Egerton, Ph. D. from Le Moyne College speak on his new book The Wars of Reconstruction on Saturday, February 8th at 2:00 pm at Women's Rights National Historical Park.


News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that Andrew Angle, age 26, Camp Hill, was sentenced on Jan. 23, 2014 to 27 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute marijuana.


News Release: WASHINGTON - David Gantt, 29, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to charges stemming from his sexual abuse of two girls in separate incidents during the summer of 2012, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


News Release: The aquaculture industry is taking notice of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research that gives the precise levels of dissolved oxygen needed to keep pond-raised catfish alive and growing.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael T. Henson, 51 of Fowerville, Michigan, who was convicted of making false statements, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The judge also ordered the defendant pay restitution in the amount of $127,091.08 to the victims in this case.


Former Bookkeeper At Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union Charged With Embezzlement

News Release: A former external bookkeeper of Taupa Lithuanian Credit Union was charged today for engaging in a conspiracy that defrauded the credit union out of nearly $1 million, 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.


Leader Of “Pump And Dump” Stock Fraud Scheme Sentenced In Manhattan Federal Court To Nine Years In Prison

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID LEVY was sentenced today to nine years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury for orchestrating “pump and dump" stock fraud schemes that employed the Internet and social networking...


BLM Accepting Public Comment on Potential Coal Leasing in Western Garfield County

News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comment on a proposal to lease approximately 14,160 acres of federal coal reserves beneath BLM-managed lands in western Garfield County 15 miles north of Fruita, Colo.


Jackson County Man Sentenced For Methamphetamine Conspiracy

News Release: ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division announced that Charles W. Scallion, 41, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. This announcement was also made by Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former pharmarcist-in-charge of West Orange Pharmacy today admitted to illegally distributing hundreds of tablets of oxycontin in exchange for thousands of dollars in cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 47-year-old Forty Fort businessman pleaded guilty yesterday in Scranton before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to participating in a conspiracy to launder drug proceeds related to the distribution of synthetic marijuana.


News Release: Previously Shot a Person to Death and Committed Multiple Robberies;.


News Release: In El Paso this morning, 47-year-old El Paso attorney Marco Antonio Delgado, a.k.a. Marco Delgado Licon, was sentenced to the maximum 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of conspiracy to launder up to $600 million in illegal drug proceeds announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Dennis Ulrich.