News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A New Jersey man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin, felon in possession of a firearm, and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An alien found in Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of illegal re-entry after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
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: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Christopher E. Miller, age 26, of Greenville, South Carolina, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, South Carolina, for possession of child pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252A. Senior United States District G. Ross Anderson, Jr., sentenced Miller to 97 months imprisonment, five years of supervised release, and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment fee.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement in response to a letter from Chairman Issa insisting that his unilateral subpoena remains in effect for testimony tomorrow from David Simas, an Assistant to the...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $6 million for two projects to develop next generation biofuels that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The research and development projects, located in California and North Carolina, will focus on lowering production...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Stephen Ardrey, 30, of Springfield, Mo., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 14 years in federal prison for transporting a 17-year old female from the Boston area into Rhode Island with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Caleb Zachary Storey, 31, Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 384 months in prison for producing sexually explicit photographs of a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that MICHELLE RENA McININCH, age 44, of Atoka, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 months imprisonment, followed by 5 months of home detention, 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $29,337.74 in restitution for Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Michael Eisner, 32, of Mastic, New York, entered a guilty plea today in connection with several different fraud schemes that Eisner conducted while he was a practicing attorney and licensed member of the Virginia State Bar.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following floor statement in support of H.R. 5021, legislation to patch the Highway Trust Fund...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., released the following statements after U.S. House of Representatives passage of bipartisan measures reported out of the Committee, including bills to modify the savings program for federal workers contributing toward...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: FRANKFORT, KY - A Scarsdale, New York man, who was convicted of wire fraud relating to a Ponzi scheme, was sentenced to 120 months in prison yesterday. U.S. District Court Judge Gregory F. VanTatenhove sentenced Eilat Lev, 65, on his conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CARLOS PADILLA, 29, a citizen of the Dominican Republic last residing in the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced...
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the launch of a new committee webpage that serves as a repository for information about bipartisan efforts to prevent a nuclear Iran. The webpage launch comes amid the Committee’s series of hearings on Iran - the latest of which tomorrow will examine Tehran’s ongoing efforts to destabilize Middle East.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: This afternoon, park rangers were notified of a cardiac emergency on Trail Ridge Road, ½ mile west of Forest Canyon Overlook at roughly 11,800 feet, at a vehicle pull-out area. The incident was not related to lightning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bloomfield, New Jersey, woman who operated a tax return preparation business admitted today that she caused at least 37 fraudulent income tax returns to be filed with the IRS, causing a total tax loss of $99,864 to the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: An eight-count indictment was filed today charging a Garfield Heights man with distributing heroin and illegally possessing a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: A climbing accident on the 13,770-foot Grand Teton resulted in the death of one member of a guided climbing party on Monday morning, July 14, in Grand Teton National Park. Mary Bilyeu, 43, of Edmond, Oklahoma was ascending to the Upper Saddle of the Grand Teton (elevation 13,160 feet) with her climbing partner and a guide from Jackson Hole Mountain Guides when she fell while negotiating a short section above the Exum Gully about 8:30 a.m.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today spoke on the Senate floor in opposition to appointing Norman Bay to be the next chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and against demoting current chairwoman Cheryl LaFleur:
