News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: An information and a separate indictment, filed today, charge Erica N. Brown, 38, of Glenolden, PA, and Nathaniel E. Robinson, 62, of Philadelphia, of using funds intended to help the homeless to pay for their own personal and living expenses. The charges were announced by United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Philadelphia Inspector General Amy Kurland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Gregory King, age 28, of Washington, D.C. pleaded guilty today to traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 14 year old female and to using a computer to persuade, induce, entice and coerce the minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Contact: Debi White. (707) 464-9150. REDWOOD NATIONAL AND STATE PARKS. Redwood Parks Association Sponsors First Annual Run in the Redwoods. Dust off your running/walking shoes and join us for the first ever Run in the Redwoods half marathon and 5k on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014, at Prairie Creek Redwoods...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE, Alaska - The Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act has been signed into law by President Obama, marking an important step in a long journey to authorize the harvest of glaucous-winged gull eggs by the Huna Tlingit in their traditional homeland of Glacier Bay National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former Eagle Rock, Mo., postmaster was sentenced in federal court today for conspiring to rob or burglarize a convenience store.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on the status of the implementation of the president’s health care law and examined what plagued its first open enrollment period. The Government Accountability...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide details about the management of pathogens at federal laboratories. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for a scheme to sell thousands of counterfeit DVDs over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nixa, Mo., man who was a co-owner of Greenleaf Companies has been sentenced in federal court for aiding and abetting a bank fraud conspiracy that was part of a multi-million-dollar mortgage investment scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide details about the management of pathogens at federal laboratories. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that George Eric Brumfield, 48, of Atlanta, Georgia, who was convicted of conspiring to commit wire fraud, was sentenced to six months in prison to be followed by six months of home detention by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution of approximately $190,000.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing on the status of the implementation of the president’s health care law and examined what plagued its first open enrollment period. The Government Accountability...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga., - Joshua James Geer has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for child pornography production, coercion of minors to engage in unlawful sex acts, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Suspect shot at police officer four times.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), in close coordination with its Mexican counterpart, the Unidad de Inteligencia Financiera (UIF), announced Friday a series of reporting initiatives designed to greatly improve the transparency of cross-border cash movements.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, spoke on the Senate floor prior to passage of H.R. 5021, the Highway Transportation Funding Act of 2014. The Senate passed the House of Representatives' proposal to extend surface transportation programs until May 2015 and provide a short-term patch for the Highway Trust Fund. The legislation now goes to the President for signature.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced the Tax Refund Theft Prevention Act of 2014, S. 2736, a bill that provides enhanced protection for taxpayers against fraudulent...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today called on the Government Accountability Office to provide details about the management of pathogens at federal laboratories. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders today opened an investigation into the Federal Communications Commission’s decision-making process ahead of granting a waiver of auction rules to Grain Management LLC. Bloomberg News broke the story that the waiver would permit Grain to circumvent commission rules designed to ensure the independence of small businesses that receive bidding credits in FCC auctions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Michael Dial, 58, of Skaneateles, New York, pleaded guilty today to aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
