News from July 2014
By USDA Wire | Jul 31, 2014
The US Agriculture Department published a four page notice on July 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 31, 2014
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on July 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 31, 2014
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on July 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 31, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on July 31, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: PHMSA 03-14 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today issued new standards to strengthen safety conditions for the shipment of lithium cells and batteries. These changes, some of which focus specifically on shipments by air, will better ensure that lithium cells and batteries are ...

By DOT News Wire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: "The good news is that Congress has avoided bankrupting the Highway Trust Fund. The bad news is that there is still no long-term certainty, and this latest band-aid expires right as the next construction season begins.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 31, 2014, Dustin Lester, 40, Cannonball, N.D., pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Woodrow Rudolph Dixon, Jr., and Cornelius Bernard Wilson each have been sentenced to federal prison for planning to rob a drug stash house while dressed as police officers.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that a Durham, North Carolina, woman was sentenced today to serve 30 months in federal prison for conspiring to defraud the IRS.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Wednesday, July 30, 2014, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Jesus Ibarra-Quen, 30, of Calif., to serve 30 months in prison for his role in a cocaine trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Ibarra-Quen previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering for his participation in a 2012 bulk money pick-up of $430,874 in cocaine proceeds.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall (D-WV) worked with his colleagues today to complete House action on a bill that will keep workers on the job building America’s transportation network.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Two Delta men were arrested this morning by federal agents and state and local law enforcement officers on gun charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and ATF Special Agent in Charge Luke Franey announced. Brandon C. Cook, age 30, and Jonathan M. Boyd, age 29, both of Delta, were arrested without...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ramsey Litzin, 20, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Pinedale, N.M., was sentenced this morning for his involuntary manslaughter conviction. Litzin will serve 18 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Ray Anthony Wayne, 43, to 51 months in prison and three years of supervised release for illegally reentering the United States after having been deported for a prior felony conviction, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 77-year-old McKinney, Texas man was found guilty for failing to register as a sex offender in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - Otsego County Sheriff Richard J. Devlin, Jr; Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration James J. Hunt; Otsego County District Attorney John M. Muehl; and Oneonta Police Department Chief Dennis R. Nayor announce the arrest of Nicholas Michael...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SALMAAN SIDDIQUI, a former Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse Group (“Credit Suisse"), was sentenced yesterday to time served in connection with a scheme to hide more than $100...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Shawn Ephisian Taylor of Mobile was recently sentenced following an April 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being an illegal drug user in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former substitute teacher and camp counselor was sentenced today for the distribution and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Kelvin L. Brown (a.k.a. “Doom"), 34, of Newport News, was convicted yesterday by a federal jury of participating in a decade-long conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Brown also was convicted of two counts of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.