News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Chee, 24, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with statutory rape.
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement regarding the abduction last week of three Israeli teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - John Stephen Davis, 64, of Galveston, has been charged with theft of nearly $400,000 in federal government benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Dr. Francesca Grifo, the Science Integrity Official for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following up on a March 2014 letter requesting the research data from certain scientific ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) announced the first three steps the Committee is taking in reaction to the late Friday announcement that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) claims to have lost key emails in the investigation into the IRS targeting American citizens. Those actions include...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Celebrate America in Your National Parks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Republican Members of the Committee wrote to Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew demanding Treasury halt all unverified subsidy payments to health insurers until the Administration is able to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring an income and subsidy verification system is up and running.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Charles Lee Harrison, the owner of a tax preparation business, has entered a guilty plea to willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of a false tax return, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, June 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, June 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that ASM AFSARY, 41, of Stamford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, after a strong bipartisan House vote to pass a permanent research and development tax credit - a credit that has existed on a “temporary" basis since 1981 - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rodney Dugan, 42, of, Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson, to obstructing the mails. The charge carries a maximum sentence six months in prison, a fine of $5,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal judge in Wichita cited a defendant’s long criminal record in sentencing him Monday to 10 years in prison on a firearm violation, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Dwayne Tyrone Coggins and Michael Owens have been arraigned on federal charges for tipping off drug traffickers to police activity in the Griffin area. Coggins and Owens were indicted by a federal grand jury on June 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A Tacoma, Wash. man was sentenced today for participating in an oxycodone and hydrocodone trafficking conspiracy where co-conspirators obtained prescriptions from a Central Valley doctor, filled them in area pharmacies and mailed the drugs to Washington and other states, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the report, How Politics Led the IRS to Target Conservative Tax-Exempt Applicants for their Political Beliefs, detailing how the President’s and congressional Democrats’ political rhetoric throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, TN - A superseding indictment was returned today by a federal grand jury against Clay McCormack, 49, of Jackson, TN, for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain loan proceeds from federally insured mortgage lenders, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Michael Janus, 47, of Biloxi, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for theft concerning programs receiving federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. Janus was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $180,000.