News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: - Lottie Carisa Burgos, owner of ABC Village Daycare, alleged to have falsified daycare attendance figures and qualifications of daycare workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that JUAN FLORES-FLORES, also known as Luis Carlos Flores and Luis Carlos Valdez, age 30, of Mexico, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to thirty-three (33) months in prison for being an illegal alien in possession of an assault style shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Francisco R. Legaspi pleaded guilty to failing to appear for his sentencing on Jan. 28, 1993, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) proposed rulemaking to approve the Physical Reliability Standard submitted by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC):
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittees on Communications and Technology and Health today held a joint hearing to discuss how the intersection of technology and health care in the 21st century can accelerate the #Path2Cures. Members heard from experts in both the health and technology fields regarding opportunities...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led six Senators in sending a letter today to David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States. In the letter, the Senators request information regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent crashed hard drive, which led to the agency's failure to preserve federal records.
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - The Senate approved a resolution today supporting Israel as it executes Operation Protective Edge against Hamas terrorists in Gaza. Senate Resolution 498 was authored by Senators Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Charles Schumer (D-NY), and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Manuel Riviera-Felix, a.k.a. Felipe Garcia, 26,, Edi Vega Bustamante, 21, and Juan Angel Lopez, 32, charging all three with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce that Karla...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Victor Anguiera, 31, of Celeron, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin and possession of a firearm in relation to drug trafficking activities, was sentenced to 180 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $100,000 in proceeds from drug trafficking activities.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, July 24, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Laboratories of Democracy: The Economic Impacts of State Energy Policies."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A former clerk for a lean hogs futures trader was sentenced today to eight months in prison after being convicted in March of commodities fraud for manipulating trades to profit more than $200,000 for herself to the detriment of public customers.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on her meeting with Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker on the issue of crude oil and condensate exports:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dalton man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man and two Mobridge, South Dakota, women have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Kidnapping and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) continued his Committee’s oversight of the current humanitarian challenges at the southern border. Today’s hearing, Challenges at the Border: Examining and Addressing the Root Causes Behind the Rise...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Funding will help support Smart Grid technology and modernize our nation's electric infrastructure WASHINGTON, July 16, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $236.3 million to help modernize and improve the reliability of rural electric systems in eight states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: In a settlement with the United States, Minnesota Power (MP), an ALLETE company based in Duluth, Minnesota has agreed to install pollution control technology and meet stringent emission rates to reduce harmful air pollution from the company’s three coal-fired power plants located in Cohasset, Hoyt Lakes ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Jones Inlet Seafood Co., Inc., a federally-licensed fish dealer located in Point Lookout, New York, its company president, Michael G. Mihale, and the company vice-president, Bruce Larson, Jr. pleaded guilty today in federal court in Central Islip, New York., to federal felonies stemming from their role ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: The United States filed a complaint today to bar Victor M. Crown, individually and through his businesses Crown and Franklin Accounting and Refunds, Crown-Franklin Accounting Inc., Accurate Accounting PV, and Lourdes Theodossis Estate, from promoting two alleged tax fraud schemes and from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.
