News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - Fawad Shah Syed, 47, of Martinez, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall to over 24 years in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release, for the Attempted Online Enticement of a Minor to Engage in Sexual Activity, Destruction of Records...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: In total, 10 defendants convicted and $2 million forfeited relating to.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Nelson Rios, also known as “Pito," 37, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 63 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today led a group of House and Senate Republican lawmakers in sending a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg expressing concerns about the FDA’s proposed regulation to allow generic...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today led a group of House and Senate Republican lawmakers in sending a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Margaret Hamburg expressing concerns about the FDA’s proposed regulation to allow generic...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: National History Day in Ohio. The 2014 National History Day theme is "Rights and Responsibilities." District competitions run throughout March. Students first participate in a district level contest, where they compete for the opportunity to move on to the state level contest on Ohio History Day. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 21, 2014, Satrone Rashard Boyd, 38, of Dickinson, N.D., pleaded guilty to one count of bank robbery before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: While full construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues to be blocked by red tape in Washington, the southern leg of the pipeline began pumping oil today. This interstate portion of the project, known as the Gulf Coast Project, was actually endorsed by President Obama in March of 2012, but his...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Heralding a new age of terrific timekeeping, a research group led by a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicist has unveiled an experimental strontium atomic clock that has set new world records for both precision and stability-key metrics for the performance of a clock.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ELIZABETH BYRNE was sentenced to 41 months in prison for embezzling more than $2 million over the course of about ten years.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: While full construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues to be blocked by red tape in Washington, the southern leg of the pipeline began pumping oil today. This interstate portion of the project, known as the Gulf Coast Project, was actually endorsed by President Obama in March of 2012, but his...
By State Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the recent escalation of violence in Ukraine between protestors and Ukrainian police forces.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the Grand Jury in Scranton returned Indictments on Jan. 21, 2014 charging Rasheen Smith, age 25, of Endicott, New York, and Tasmiyah Sharif, age 23, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, separately with conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Four Chicago and area defendants were indicted on federal bank fraud charges for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain 46 automobile loans totaling approximately $1.4 million without ever intending that the borrowers would purchase the highend luxury cars that they claimed to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Blessed Marvelous Herve (aka Herve Rodrigue Ndandou, aka Blessed Roll Herve) was sentenced today to 40 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to defrauding two victims out of more than $1.6 million over the course several years, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: ASUNCION, Paraguay - A new international agreement was signed Wednesday by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Paraguayan Attorney General’s Office to streamline information sharing regarding suspected child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: While full construction of the Keystone XL pipeline continues to be blocked by red tape in Washington, the southern leg of the pipeline began pumping oil today. This interstate portion of the project, known as the Gulf Coast Project, was actually endorsed by President Obama in March of 2012, but his...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Juneau resident was sentenced in Juneau to federal prison for drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 22, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Mark C. Simpson, 51, of Lake Park, Georgia, entered pleas of guilty on Jan. 22, 2014, to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in one case and to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2014
News Release: JAN 21 - HONOLULU - Chief U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway sentenced defendant Ashon L. Fain-Farias, age 25, on Jan. 13, 2014, to an imprisonment term of six years following a plea (i) one count of possession with intent to distribute five grams or more of methamphetamine; (ii) one count of conspiring to steal government property; and, (iii) one count of aggravated identity theft.
