News from July 2014
By DOT News Wire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today celebrated the grand opening of the Sun Link Streetcar line. The new line will significantly improve transit options for thousands of area residents and connect major activity centers in downtown ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Military Skills Test Waiver Program Now Includes all 50 States and D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LEONIDES SIERRA, a/k/a “Junito" - the former national leader of the “Trinitarios," a violent street and prison gang comprising primarily individuals of Dominican descent - was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan...
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of eight bipartisan bills this week to combat international human trafficking. Among the bills passed by the House this week, are two that were passed unanimously by the Foreign Affairs Committee earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest today of Fredrick Collins, Sr. (36, Orlando) on an indictment returned on April 9, 2014, charging him with distribution of cocaine, possession with intent to distribute cocaine and methylone, possession of a firearm in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jeffrey Schmutzler, age 43, of Fayetteville, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday by Senior United States District Judge William Caldwell to 108 months’ imprisonment, a $15,000 fine and ten years of supervised release following his release from imprisonment after pleading guilty to possession and receipt of child pornography on July 29, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Billionaire investor Mark Cuban isn’t a fan of tax inversions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Qiydaar Miller, age 34, the leader of a Wilmington-based drug organization, known as the “30th Street Crew," was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 78 months in prison and 4 years supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, cocaine, and marijuana, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 846.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: This afternoon, park rangers were contacted via cell phone by a 31-year-old man who indicated he had fallen an unknown distance while glissading down Gabletop Mountain, which is above Loomis Lake in Rocky Mountain National Park. He reported numerous injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Joseph Raymond Haycock, 59, formerly of Salmon, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 40 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Haycock to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term. Haycock pleaded guilty to the charge in April 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kenneth A. Brauckmann, 51, of Springfield, Virginia, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison for attempting to coerce and entice two children to engage in illegal sexual activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following floor statement in opposition to H.R. 4935, a GOP bill that would slash the Child Tax Credit...
By State Newswire | Jul 25, 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 Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 663,670 recreational visitors to Capitol Reef National Park in 2013 spent $45,086,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 555 jobs in the local area. "Capitol Reef National Park is proud to welcome visitors from across the country...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: VAN BUREN MO: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,253,703 visitors to Ozark.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Chicago, Ill. man was sentenced on July 22, 2014, in federal court on drug conspiracy charges. ROBERT PRESLEY, 34, also known as “Munchie," was sentenced to 440 months in federal prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release. After a nine-day jury trial in the U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Texas resident has been sentenced in federal court to 135 months incarceration and five years supervised release on his conviction of violating the federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, July 25, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A former resident of Spokane, Washington, Carl Kieffer, 49, was sentenced in federal district court on July 25, 2014, for a total of seven bank robberies, three of which were charged by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Three defendants charged in unrelated cases appeared yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to various felony child pornography offenses. In each case, Judge Cummings ordered a presentence investigation report with a sentencing date to be set after the completion of that report. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ephonia M. Green, 44, of Upper Marlboro, Md., was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for embezzling more than $5 million from her former employer, a non-profit corporation, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
