News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Following a lengthy investigation by the FBI-led Chicago Joint Terrorism Task Force, a Chicago man admitted today in Federal Court that he mailed more than 90 threatening and/or harassing letters to Chicago police officers, other government and law enforcement officials, private individuals, schools, and religious institutions in the Chicago area between November 2003 and December 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At a hearing today on the security of the Healthcare.gov website, Rep. John F. Tierney, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, proposed that the Committee stop spending so much time criticizing federal officials charged with protecting the website-which has not been...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - James Anthony Demotto, 31, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 15 years and eight months in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Pamela D. Mills, 53, of Ninnekah, Oklahoma, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange to serve 24 months in federal prison for embezzlement from her employer, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. In addition, Mills was ordered to pay $227,015.07 in restitution to her former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: - Accomplices cashed more than 300 counterfeit checks totaling $200,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Albrecht Muth, 49, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today of first-degree murder in the slaying of his wife, 91-year-old Viola Drath, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that it has charged a 47-year-old Forty Fort businessman with conspiracy to commit money laundering related to the distribution of synthetic marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing images and videos of child sex abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Grand Junction, Colo - Department of Interior Secretary Sally Jewell recently announced the appointment of several local residents to the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Advisory Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man who was arrested after wrecking a car while fleeing from police was indicted today on a federal firearms charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: 2013 enacted level: $156.6 billion. 2014 Committee mark: N/A. 2014 Omnibus: $156.8 billion. · $29.9 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which is $714 million less than the 2013 enacted level but $1.0 billion more than the post-sequester level. · $6.8 billion for the Centers for Disease Control...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made remarks on the House floor today on the Republican myths about unemployment insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that businessman Daniel Paul Francis, 43, of Dawsonville, Ga., pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Hanna, to conspiracy to introduce misbranded drugs into interstate commerce.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: LONDON - An organized crime group that facilitated the live streaming of on-demand child sexual abuse in the Philippines has been dismantled after a joint investigation by the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA), the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Rigoberto Torres-Perez, 30, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Torres-Perez was indicted by a federal grand jury in Pocatello on June 25, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2014 – A limited water supply is predicted west of the Continental Divide, according to the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) National Water and Climate Center (NWCC) in its first forecast of 2014. The NWCC also predicts normal water supply east of the Continental Divide and will continue to monitor, forecast and update water supplies for the next six months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Granville Robinson, 25, aka Bear and HB, Duane Phillips, 28, aka P-nut, and Anthony Ellis, 25, aka Anthony Deshun Lloyd, Animal and AD, were arrested today for offenses related to their involvement in sex trafficking adult victims to New Orleans as charged in a five-count indictment dated Dec. 20, 2013, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Two former Miami real estate agents were sentenced today for their roles in a $2.4 million mortgage fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: A jury in the Middle District of Georgia convicted Kimberly Michelle Banks on Jan. 14, 2014, of conspiring to file false federal income tax returns in the names of stolen identities, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Banks was also convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and theft of government money.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Remarks at Detroit Economic Club Thank you. It is an honor to be with the Detroit Economic Club.
