News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: LONDON, KY - The final member of a scheme to steal prescription pills, from a Whitley County, KY., pharmacy, and provide the pills to area drug dealers has pled guilty to federal charges.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the U.S. State Department’s release of the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline application, which includes the proposed reroute through Nebraska.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the U.S. State Department’s release of the final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL pipeline application, which includes the proposed reroute through Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Hazleton resident was indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton on Jan. 28, 2014 for participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed heroin and cocaine during July through October of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - First Assistant United States Attorney Kenneth P. Madden, a federal prosecutor for nearly twenty-eight years, is retiring from public service today after serving a total of thirty-eight years as a local prosecutor. Mr. Madden served as a Rhode Island state prosecutor for ten years prior to his appointment as an Assistant United States Attorney in 1986.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that James L. Quirin, 59, of Sauget, Illinois, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, a $500 special assessment, and ordered to make restitution...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: In 2011, the House and Senate Agriculture Committees set a goal of cutting $23 billion from agriculture programs. This Farm Bill ensures that, including sequester, the bill yields a total of $23 billion in cuts to program spending, meeting the committees’ deficit reduction goal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Chamberlain, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters and Attempt to Obtain Controlled Substance by Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell sentenced Salvatore Ciccarello, Jr. (31, Apopka) to 7 years in federal prison for wire fraud. Ciccarello was also ordered to serve 3 years of supervised release and to pay more than $3 million in restitution to his victims.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Communications and Technology and Oversight and Investigations today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler requesting detailed information regarding the commission’s budget and operating expenses. Members are seeking this information as they continue their work to protect taxpayer dollars as part of larger efforts to improve transparency and efficiency at the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Pamela C. Marsh, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced today that a Gainesville grand jury returned a seven-count indictment against Samuel J. Cusumano, 64, of Orlando, Florida, charging him with wire fraud violations of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II yesterday sentenced Luis Flores, Jr. (19, Lake Mary) to three and a half years in federal prison for credit card fraud and aggravated identity theft. The court also ordered Flores to forfeit computers...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass on Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Jody Farnham, 55, of Burlington, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2014, in United States District Court in Rutland to a charge of federal program embezzlement. Chief Judge Christina Reiss released Farnham on conditions pending her sentencing, which has been set for June 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine and possessed a firearm in furtherance of the drug conspiracy was sentenced Jan. 30, 2014, to more than 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two Western Pennsylvania residents have been sentenced in federal court on their convictions of mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that men from Kyle, Potato Creek, and Porcupine, South Dakota, who were all previously convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, were sentenced this past week by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), issued the following statement in response to the U.S. State Department's release of the final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Keystone XL pipeline permit application. EPW Committee staff is reviewing the EIS line by line.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Six members of a firearms trafficking organization operating out of the Zapata, Texas, area from approximately 2009 through mid-2011 have been ordered to federal prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Claudia Medrano, 29, Maria Micaela Berrones, 26, Marlene Riojas...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Communications and Technology and Oversight and Investigations today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler requesting detailed information regarding the commission’s budget and operating expenses. Members are seeking this information as they continue their work to protect taxpayer dollars as part of larger efforts to improve transparency and efficiency at the commission.
