News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester, NY has returned a six-count superseding indictment charging Jodia Campbell, 32, Laree Greggs, 37, and Jennifer Miller, 26, all of Rochester, N.Y., with various felonies including conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Field Office released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Hartman Rocks Recreation Area Management Plan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 30, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement regarding the first helium auction at the Federal Helium Reserve near Amarillo, TX.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on, Thursday, July 31, Committee Members will be briefed by “Caesar," a Syrian Army defector who was witness to and a documenter of Bashar al-Assad’s lethal brutality. “Caesar," who will be appearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Houston man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), New York Division, announced today that PATRICK MORGAN was arrested this morning in Buffalo, NY on narcotics distribution and narcotics conspiracy charges. MORGAN is expected to be presented later today in the Western District of New York before United States Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on GAO’s new report on HealthCare.goventitled, Healthcare.gov: Ineffective Planning and Oversight Practices Underscore the Need for Improved Contract Management, which outlines how CMS failed to effectively manage HealthCare.gov contracts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Local School Construction Sites Targeted in Additional Extortions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RAFAEL CEPEDA, a man originally from the Dominican Republic, was sentenced yesterday in White Plains federal court to 42 months in prison for making false claims of United States citizenship, failing to register...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Dear President Obama: We write to express our deep concern over Japan’s current market access offer within the ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations. When Japan joined these negotiations, it agreed that the elimination of tariffs is a key feature of the agreement, as announced by TPP...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Tavares Davon Miller, a/k/a “Tavon Jackson," “Tavon Miller," and “Ooh," age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland today 75 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: TUSCALOOSA -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Birmingham man to 10 years in prison for possessing and intending to distribute about a pound of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. B Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Lee’s Summit, Mo., youth soccer coach pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to produce child pornography by secretly videotaping members of his...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the White House announced that President Barack Obama will sign an Executive Order to improve the federal contracting system by taking new steps to ensure that companies paid by taxpayers provide safe and fair workplaces for American workers. The Executive Order will require prospective...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Bipartisan legislation that would increase public transparency around financial settlements reached by federal enforcement agencies, The Truth in Settlements Act, is one step closer to become a reality. Originally introduced by U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), passed the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL BINDAY, the president and owner of a Scarsdale-based insurance agency, JAMES KEVIN KERGIL, an insurance agent based in Peekskill, New York, and MARK RESNICK, an insurance agent based in Orlando, Florida...
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 on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives in support of a resolution condemning the use of civilians as human shields by Hamas (H.Con.Res. 107)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee and Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo), member of the Senate Finance Committee, today introduced the Pay-For-Performance Act, a bill that aims to achieve better outcomes for beneficiaries and taxpayers alike. The legislation is a companion bill to the Young-Delaney Social Impact Bond Act in the House of Representatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) urged U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell to improve Obamacare’s subsidy verification system after reports of fictitious identities and fraudulent documents...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Earlier today, a criminal complaint was unsealed charging JAMES WILLIAMS, 60, from Del City, Oklahoma, with assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
