News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Ronald W. Evans, Jr., husband of former Country Club Hills police chief Regina R. Evans, was sentenced today for his role in a fraud scheme that misused state grant money awarded in 2009 to We Are Our Brother’s Keeper, a not-for-profit program owned and operated by the couple. U.S.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) today allocated additional fiscal year 2014 funds for the Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Jason Paul Arnold, age 32, formerly of Garden, Michigan, received five years in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Arnold was previously convicted by a jury after a one day trial in Grand Rapids on March 17, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA) will lead a hearing next week on the General Services Administration’s (GSA) leasing program and opportunities for taxpayer savings in today’s real estate market.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 25, 2014 - The House Natural Resources Committee’s Majority oversight staff released a today entitled “A Five-Star Folly: An Investigation into the Cost Increases, Construction Delays, and Design Problems That Have Been a Disservice to the Effort to Memorialize Dwight D. Eisenhower."...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the owners and operators of Woodland Garden Apartments in Fremont, California, to settle allegations of discrimination against families with children. Under the consent order, which must still be approved by the U.S. District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES TAGLIAFERRI, formerly the president of TAG Virgin Islands (“TAG"), was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of investment adviser fraud, securities fraud, multiple counts of wire fraud...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Deleon Produce Sales Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Darren K. Smith, 33, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced on July 24, 2014 by U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves, Jr. to 23 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Grant to Help Bolster Black Bear Education Programs at Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Keith Laudric Finn, 46, of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Sergio Garcia, 25, of Rigby, Idaho, Fernando Montiel, 52, of St. Anthony, Idaho, and Juan Carlos Nunez-Mascareno, 36, of Rexburg, Idaho, were arrested this week on drug and gun related charges, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An arrest...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Lassen Volcanic National Park, in collaboration with NASA, will host the 2014 Dark Sky Festival, announced Park Superintendent Darlene M. Koontz. This year's Dark Sky Festival, from August 1 to 3, is filled with exciting activities for all ages. Daytime activities include safe sun viewing through special...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Committee votes to reject White House claim that head of political office has absolute immunity from Congress
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, released a new letter from the U.S. Office of the Special Counsel (OSC), the independent federal agency charged with investigating Hatch Act violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former Princeton, New Jersey, youth soccer coach admitted today that he possessed images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 28. The committee will consider several health and telecommunications bills, question the FERC Commissioners about threats to the nation’s electric grid, and review a forthcoming GAO report on the Obamacare exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A United Parcel Service driver was arrested this afternoon on federal gun trafficking charges for allegedly stealing dozens of guns going through the shipping company’s Ontario hub and providing them to an associate who sold the weapons in underground transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/MONROE/LAKE CHARLES, La.:United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley attended a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act at a program hosted by the U.S. Justice Department and Howard University held in Washington, D.C., last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Rasheeda McConnell, 33, of Atlanta, Georgia, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of conspiring to commit bank fraud and six counts of bank fraud.
