News from July 2014
By USDA Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today urged the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide farmers and ranchers with more certainty as the agencies move forward ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of an area home building company that went bankrupt in 2008, leaving unfinished a commercial and residential property development in northwest suburban Algonquin, was sentenced today to 15 months in federal prison for bank fraud related to the collapse of the project, known as Riverside Square.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Saxton, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 35 months in prison, three years supervised release and ordered to pay $6,399 in restitution on his conviction of interstate transportation of stolen firearms, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Staten Island, New York, woman today admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running...
By DOE 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 Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would take a number of steps to improve the Department of Homeland Security’s chemical security program. The substitute amendment introduced by Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.)...
By State Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 9:30 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, convened a briefing entitled, “Assad’s Killing Machine Exposed: Implications for U.S. Policy." The Committee is being briefed by “Caesar," a Syrian Army defector who was witness to and a documenter of Bashar al-Assad’s lethal brutality. This briefing is the first public setting in which “Caesar" has shared his story.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Hogsett continues crackdown on illegal drugs and illegal gun possession.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding a new study released by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The study, which analyzed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plans to lower the current ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Jaramillo, 24, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his role in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Spruce Railroad Trail (SRRT) along the north shore of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park will be closed from the Lyre River Trailhead to approximately 0.25 miles east of Devil's Punchbowl beginning Tuesday, August 5. Work to improve the first 1,600 feet of the trail for universal accessibility is...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Troy Lawrence, 45, of Charleston, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to aggravated identify theft. Lawrence admitted that he used a dead person’s name and driver’s license to purchase pseudoephedrine from a Rite Aid store in Charleston. Lawrence faces a mandatory two years’ imprisonment when he is sentenced on Nov. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Buffalo, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Emilio R. Haro, 30, of Buffalo, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sabastiano Coho, 23, a member of the Ramah Chapter of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced today to 50 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release for his aggravated sexual abuse conviction. Coho will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former regional director of the Eastern Region of Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc. (Pop Warner) was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from the organization and using the funds for his personal benefit, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full Committee markup of the Emergency Iron Dome Replenishment Act (H.R. 5235), the Girls Count Act (H.R. 3398), the Naftali Fraenkel Rewards for Justice...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a Moscow, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I am pleased that on Monday the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3696, the National Cybersecurity Infrastructure Protection Act. I regard this legislation as a positive step forward for our Nation's cybersecurity. Among other things, it ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department has submitted filings in voting rights cases in Wisconsin and Ohio. The department’s involvement in these two cases represents its latest steps to enforce the remaining parts of the Voting Rights Act against restrictive state laws, following up on the department’s lawsuits last year against similar measures in Texas and North Carolina.
