News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., businessman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for additional bankruptcy fraud, after being indicted last year for a series of bank fraud and wire fraud schemes that totaled more than $3.3 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that four individuals convicted of Conspiracy to Commit Theft Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds or Theft Concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds have been sentenced by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lauri Love, 29, of Stradishall, England, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia on charges of conspiracy, causing damage to a protected computer, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Tourism to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Creates $23.5 million in Economic Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 24, 2014, Jeremy Michael Laducer, 27, Belcourt, N.D., pleaded guilty and was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Laducer received credit for four days in custody...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Willie Walker, Jr., 24, and Ricky Donaldson, 23, were sentenced today to prison terms of 88 years and 45 years, respectively for violent crimes, including the 2008 slaying of a government witness, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: We recently learned that the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) awarded a $190 million contract to U.S. Investigations Services, Inc. (USIS). To better understand USCIS’s decision to award this contract to USIS, we request that USCIS provide a briefing to the Committee...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) blasted Republican leadership for failing to act on bipartisan, House and Senate legislation that would treat extreme wildfires the same as other natural disasters and end the need to borrow from fire...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: A recent wave of corporate inversions has caught the attention of editorial boards and columnists across the country (you can see a map of the editorials here ). In May, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Levin and other House Democrats introduced legislation - the Stop Corporate Inversions Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Committee will consider resolution Friday if Simas rejects second chance offer to testify
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -A two-year-long undercover investigation has resulted in the seizure of more than $517,000 in cash and seven people being charged for conspiracy to distribute cocaine, firearm violations, and other related drug charges in parishes across north Louisiana, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On the fifth anniversary of the last minimum wage increase, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Representative George Miller (D-CA), and Senator Al Franken (D-MN) held a press conference to outline the growing pay cut currently faced by millions of minimum- and low-wage workers as a result of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - This morning, Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing in an effort to demonstrate that the Affordable Care Act has harmed the Medicare Advantage program. As Chairman Brady in his opening statement said, “The future for Medicare Advantage may look grim." The experts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition by a Prohibited Person, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Using and Carrying a Firearm during and in Relation to a Crime of Violence.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department and the Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory today announced funding for projects led by Pika Energy, Northern Power Systems, Endurance Wind Power, and Urban Green Energy that will help drive down the cost of small and medium-sized wind energy systems. Through the second...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Robbery of Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Salvatore Lopiccolo, age 35 of Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison and three years of supervised release for his participation in a drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: California to Seymour methamphetamine distribution operation dismantled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Travis Devall (47, Tampa) with a conspiracy to commit and the commission of wire fraud, theft of government property and funds, and aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he faces a maximum...
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after meeting with the Presidents of Guatemala, Honduras and Foreign Minister of El Salvador.
