News from July 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: More than fourteen years ago, Congress passed the African Growth and Opportunity Act, known as AGOA. For the first time, the United States established a trade policy specific to sub-Saharan Africa. AGOA was designed by a bipartisan group of lawmakers with the goal of fostering opportunities for African...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Federal charges have been filed against a man for robbing a Las Vegas bank on July 22 and a Las Vegas casino cashier’s cage on July 25, 2014, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that IMEH U. EBERE, age 55, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and SHEILA R. HIVES, age 51, of Baker, Louisiana, have each been convicted of health care fraud offenses in connection with their roles at Golden Medical Equipment & Supply, Inc. (“Golden"), a Baton Rouge-based company that provided durable medical equipment in the Baton Rouge area since 2003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that former Buffalo Police Officer Johnnie Fritz, 49, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to 10 months home confinement by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $6,400 to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Colonel Stan Witt, Director of the Arkansas State Police (ASP), announced...
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Louis, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for drug trafficking after he suffered a heroin overdose in a Columbia, Mo., hotel room.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Junior Nathanial Ricketts, a native of Jamaica, who was convicted of tampering with a witness in order to prevent the witness from testifying against him at trial, was sentenced to time served (three years, 11 months) by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
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.
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 made the following statement regarding the announcement of new visa restrictions on those responsible for human rights abuses in Venezuela...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, along with David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Colonel Stan Witt, Director of the Arkansas State Police (ASP), announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced today that DWAYNE E. HUPP, age 51, a resident of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, pled guilty before the U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt, to four counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Federal agents arrested a Bergen County, New Jersey, man this morning on a charge that he distributed sexually explicit images of children from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that a Stockton, California man was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason to 16 years in federal prison for his role in a drug conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Lakewood, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management leased a 1,790-acre tract for $2.9 million to Bowie Resources to develop approximately 8 million tons of recoverable coal adjacent to the Bowie II Mine in Delta County.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Thursday’s Dove Creek public scoping meeting for the Gunnison Sage-Grouse Environmental Impact Statement and associated range-wide amendment will now take place at Dove Creek High School, 525 North Main St., Dove Creek, CO 81234. This location is different from what was previously announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Orlando Brock, aged 43, of Hartwell, Georgia, and Walter Butler, Jr., aged 45, of Gainesville, Georgia, were sentenced on July 30, 2014 by United States District Court Judge C. Ashley Royal in Athens, Georgia for armed bank robbery. Mr. Brock was sentenced to serve 16 years (192 months) in Federal prison. Mr. Butler received a sentence of 7 years (87 months) of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), yesterday announced the unsealing of commodities fraud, securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman, our objective should be to encourage innovation without wasting taxpayer demonstration money on interventions, on programs that don’t work-that are not cost-effective. There is not enough TANF block grant money available now to adequately fund existing programs designed to help poor people...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A Natchitoches man was sentenced last week to 60 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his part in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution operation in parts of northwest and southwest Louisiana, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.
