News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two Mexican citizens, who were in the United States illegally, were sentenced to prison on charges of illegal reentry into the United States.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 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 toughened sanctions against Russia...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate floor in support of the Emergency Supplemental Funding Bill, introduced by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee. The measure includes funds to address the humanitarian challenge at the southern border. His statement, as prepared for delivery, follows...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of House and Senate committee leaders are seeking insights on the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from all 50 governors.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Today the Finance Committee will examine a classic case of tax evasion: How dozens of companies making tobacco products dodge taxes owed under current law by changing only a few words on packaging labels. This evasion fleeces taxpayers out of billions of dollars, and it means children and teens are more easily hooked on tobacco.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: This week, experts are meeting at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Hoboken to discuss how communities can prepare themselves to minimize the impacts of major disasters like Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 "superstorm," and quickly restore vital functions and services. The workshop is the second of three sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 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 “Iran P5+1 Negotiation Extensions."
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a Committee hearing on nuclear negotiations with Iran...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Tuesday, July 29, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - Stephen Edward Peelman, 32, Cincinnati, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 240 months in prison for producing sexually explicit photographs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - VICTORIA JEAN BRILEY, of Wentzville, admitted to collecting $138,000 in veteran’s benefits in the name of her deceased mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Ross Township man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of union embezzlement, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: “The majority’s inadequate proposal in response to the humanitarian crisis at our borders is unacceptable and would guarantee another emergency in September, raising the prospect of government shutdown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that five defendants were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to use identity documents, checks and credit cards that were either found in stolen vehicles or pilfered from vehicles to make fraudulent purchases and to obtain methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, the House Foreign Affairs Europe, Eurasia and Emerging Threats subcommittee and the Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade subcommittee will convene a joint subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Shootdown of Malaysian Flight 17 and the Escalating Crisis in Ukraine." Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, who recently traveled to Eastern Ukraine in April, will deliver the following opening statement.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Randy King announced today that applications can now be requested for the Commercial Use Authorization program for 2015 and 2016 and the Commercial Non-Profit Special Use Permit program for 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Larry L. Barringer, age 54, of Baltimore, today to five years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to pass counterfeit $100 bills and for conspiracy to commit money laundering. Judge Messitte ordered Barringer to pay restitution of $18,600 and to forfeit $30,001, plus electronics involved in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Roland Michael Muir, age 57, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to steal, and theft of, aluminum carts from the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for robbing a bank in Euclid, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio, 34-year-old John Andrew Cardenas of Uvalde, TX, was sentenced to three years in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release and ordered to pay $97,445.95 restitution to the IRS after pleading guilty to preparing fraudulent Income Tax Returns announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steven McCollough.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: (KNOXVILLE, Tenn -.) - A federal grand jury in Knoxville returned five separate indictments on July 16, 2014, against 59 individuals involved in a conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine. Those indicted include...
