News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 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), George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Paula Reid, Special...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement on CBO’s new report entitled, “The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook, " which details how spending for Social Security and health care entitlements will cause deficits to rise over time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Timothy Deland, 28, of Sherman, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny, to theft of property mortgaged or pledged to the Farm Services Agency. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., congratulated the U.S. House on passing a permanent extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act today, and pledged to defend the Internet against multiple and discriminatory taxes. The bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA),which Wyden co-wrote in 1998 and extended three times, is currently scheduled to expire Nov. 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man pled guilty to violating federal child exploitation laws today, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Canaan, Pennsylvania, to 15 years’ imprisonment for stabbing another inmate multiple times with a sharpened weapon and with the intent to commit murder. Eddie Joe Sutton, age 60, formerly of Texas, was charged with the offense and pleaded guilty on April 15, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell on the need for the agency to shift its approach to wildfire suppression by more actively managing federal forestry lands to reduce the frequency and severity of fires.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: For nearly four decades, scientists have suspected that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) contributed to a green turtle's susceptibility to the virus that causes fibropapillomatosis (FP), a disease that forms large benign tumors that can inhibit the animal's sight, mobility and feeding ability. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DANIEL JAMES ABBOTT, age 32, of Calera, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation, 8 months of home detention and was ordered to pay $45,524.47 in restitution for Embezzlement By Bank Officer Or Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene the Committee’s latest in a series of hearings on the Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Obama Administration’s ongoing nuclear negotiations with Tehran. At the hearing,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Twenty-ninth Defendant to Plead Guilty in Connection with Scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved H.R. 5021, the Highway and Transportation Funding Act of 2014, legislation that extends federal surface transportation programs and ensures the solvency of the Highway Trust Fund through May 2015. The legislation, which was approved by a vote of 367 to 55, was cosponsored by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on the “Implementation and Administration of the 2013 Helium Stewardship Act." This hearing examined what steps are being taken to comply with H.R. 527, the Helium Stewardship Act that was signed into law, Public Law 113-40, on Oct. 2, 2013 as a result of bipartisan efforts in the House and the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that four defendants were sentenced in Macon today by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Court Judge, in connection with the operation of a place of prostitution and money laundering activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Peter W. Hayes, age 48 of Newark, Delaware, was charged on July 15, 2014, in a seven-count Indictment with the following offenses.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Seneca Falls, NY - Let the world know your ideas on women's rights, civil rights, and human rights through art at Women's Rights National Historical Park on Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20, in celebration of the First Women's Rights Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will meet with transportation startups at tech incubator 1776’s Washington, DC campus tomorrow to discuss innovation, technology, and the future of transportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury charging Farah Laurent, age 30, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, with obtaining approximately $26,000 by fraud from the Tobyhanna Federal Credit Union in May through July of 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Steven Mickey Bunker, age 47, of Aynor, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for theft of government funds, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, and conspiracy to make false statements ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Anthony Harrington, also known as “Tone," 29, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a narcotics trafficking ring.
