News from July 2014
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing titled “Russia and Developments in Ukraine."
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement after a Mexican court ordered that U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi must remain in the jail in which he has been held since his March arrest...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Following a three-day trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, today found Gregory John Schaffer guilty of enticement to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity, enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, attempted enticement to travel to engage in illegal sexual activity, and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez announced today that Copar Pumice Company, Inc., a mining company with a principal place of business in Rio Arriba County, N.M., and the owners of Copar and its affiliated companies (Copar), have paid $2.25 million to the U.S. Government to settle a civil...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a decision by Rep. Buck McKeon, Chairman of the House Committee on Armed Services, to declassify and publicly release transcripts of congressional interviews with officials throughout the military chain of command regarding the attacks in Benghazi...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Francisco Weinmann-Cervantes, Delia Wong De Weinmann and Ana Cristina Romero- Weinmann pled guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama before the Honorable Judge Callie V.S. Granade to conspiring knowingly to harbor aliens.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the unanimous passage in the Senate of the Huna Tlingit Traditional Gull Egg Use Act, a bill championed by Murkowski and Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska. The bill was one of apackage of 16 public lands bills approved Wednesday by the Senate.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), member of the Finance Committee and Chairman of the EPW Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, issued the following statement opposing the House Ways ...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Failure to Verify: Concerns Regarding PPACA’s Eligibility System." Representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (HHS OIG) will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester, N.Y. has returned a three-count indictment charging Jodia Campbell, 32, of Rochester, with sex trafficking of a minor, transportation of a minor across state lines with intent that the minor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: A South Euclid woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison for her role in a variety of schemes that resulted in a loss of more than $73,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2014
News Release: ‘I was cautioning folks about email and how we have several occasions where Congress has asked for emails … we need to be cautious about what we say in emails’
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former deputy of the Los Angeles County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department has been sentenced in federal court for his role in an $11 million mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Owner of Tebbs Head shops Sentenced to 87 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that ROBERT A. WILLIAMS (22, of Watertown, NY) entered a guilty plea to the felony offenses of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Raiders of the Lost Art @ Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Joseph James Salmons was sentenced to two years in federal prison and two other men, Richard A. Mullins and John Freddie Joe Johnson, were sentenced to three years’ probation on charges relating to the distribution of oxycodone in Lincoln County. United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr., imposed the sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: In a speech Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder called Syria "a cradle of violent extremism" and urged multilateral law enforcement action to confront the security threat posed by radicalized individuals from the United States and Europe traveling there.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: RE/MAX Allegiance Relocation Services, a Virginia-based move management company, has agreed to pay the government $509,807 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling for transportation services, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) announced that Matthew Bender, of Detroit, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Julian Abele Cook Jr. to serve 48 months in prison and one year of supervised release.
