News from July 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today pressed Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze on the slow pace of his agency’s environmental review of a proposed access road for an oil project in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Stay informed and connected: Democrats.Judiciary.House.Gov . July 29, 2014. Contact: Stephanie Báez(Conyers)(202) 225-6906. Aaron Keyak (Nadler)(202) 202-225-5635. David Dailey (Scott) (202) 225-8351. House Judiciary Democrats Laud Senator Leahy's Introduction of the USA FREEDOM Act. Today, Senate Judiciary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that United States District Judge Jose E. Martinez sentenced Tia Lashonda Miller, 39, of West Palm Beach, to 70 months imprisonment, to be followed by 2 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Pitts: “Despite repeated warnings about the fiscal future of Medicare, each year we are reminded that this important social safety net will soon be unable to provide the care and peace of mind that seniors have been promised."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 35-year-old Allen, Texas man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: As part of expanded U.S. sanctions on Russia announced July 29, 2014 by President Obama, the United States has suspended all export credit programs for Russia, including the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Jason Allen Neff, 33, pleaded guilty today to federal charges in a “swatting" case, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas. Swatting refers to falsely reporting an emergency to a police department to cause a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) response to a physical address, or making a false report to elicit an emergency response by other first responders to a specific physical address.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below regarding today's report by the White House Council of Economic Advisors on the economic consequences of delaying action on climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced that a federal jury has found Anthony Vikey Omar (29, Ocala) guilty of aiding and abetting an attempt...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators wrote Secretary of State Kerry today expressing deep concern over the deterioration of democracy, rule of law, and human rights in Venezuela and urged the Administration to apply targeted sanctions against Venezuelan individuals complicit in human rights violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Sam Hirsch, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department of Justice, and Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS"), announced that XIAO...
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the Obama Administration’s announcement of a four-month extension in the nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers. At the hearing, State Department and Treasury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted in federal court today for illegally having a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raymond Lariva, 30, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to federal firearms and drug trafficking charges. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 5th Judicial District Attorney Janetta B. Hicks, Special Agent in Charge Bernard J. Zapor of the Phoenix Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and Chief Phil Smith of the Roswell Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 44-year-old Galveston, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Nanotechnology: Understanding How Small Solutions Drive Big Innovation." Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Todd Kowar, age 46, Kidder Township, Carbon County, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Scranton on charges of producing child pornography and possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Nanotechnology: Understanding How Small Solutions Drive Big Innovation." Nanotechnology is science, engineering, and technology conducted at the nanoscale, which is approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Langston Jackson, age 30, of Baltimore, today to 151 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 29, 2014 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the flooring floor statement in support of H.R. 4315, the Endangered Species Transparency and Reasonableness Act.
