News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Biscayne and Everglades National Parks are teaming up to reduce the number of accidents and fatalities related to boating under the influence of drugs and alcohol. The campaign, called Operation Dry Water, will be held June 27-29, 2014. It is part of a national effort to help educate recreational boaters and increase awareness about the dangers of alcohol and drug use while boating.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Carole.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) informing the Senate Finance Committee that Lois Lerner’s emails cannot be produced due to a hard drive crash and that additional documentation will be provided in lieu of her emails...
By State Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote President Obama today about the deteriorating situation in Ukraine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Wendell Young, 34, of Inglewood, Calif., Adrian Franklin, 40, of Chandler, Arizona, Francisco DeLaRosa, 42, of West Covina, Calif. and Tracey Young, 46, of Los Angeles, have been sentenced by United States District Court Judge William Haynes for their participation in a money laundering scheme to defraud Nissan, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. All defendants pleaded guilty earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Connie Coble, 52, of Alamogordo, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to participating in a conspiracy to obtain prescription drugs by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge by filling fraudulent prescriptions at retail pharmacies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) admission that the IRS ‘lost’ Lois Lerner’s emails to and from other IRS employees from a period of January 2009 - April 2011 due to a ‘computer crash.’
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Have you ever seen Jupiter and its four moons or the rings around Saturn? Now is your chance! Carlsbad Caverns National Park invites the public to a "Star Party" on Saturday, June 21, 2014 at 8:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Connecticut man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for advertising and distributing child pornography in Alaska. Michael J. Carroll, 59, was sentenced to 26 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Carroll...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DEANDREA ROBINSON, St. Peters, MO, pled guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft for an equity stripping real estate fraud scheme that victimized a homeowner in north St. Louis County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Myles W. Robinson, 21, and Halston M. Smith, 22, both of Shreveport, were sentenced to 314 years in prison and 138 years in prison, respectively, by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for their participation in a string of armed robberies in Louisiana and Texas. The defendants were also ordered to pay $17,681.31 and $8,033.31 in restitution, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Bullock, 30, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 30 years in prison on charges stemming from the shooting of three men in December 2012 behind a restaurant in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 16, 2014. The committee will continue its investigation into the General Motors ignition switch recall and review EPA’s proposed power plant regulations.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area doctor has agreed to plead guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge for illegally distributing the powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, June 13, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 3, 2014, Frank R. Johnson, a/k/a “Mo," 44, of Elkville, and George A. Mayo, 33, of West Frankfort, were charged by indictment with conspiracy to distribute heroin, the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Stephanie Kantz And Hataria Whitehead Will Each Serve Time In Federal Prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the semiannual report to Congress from the EPA Office of Inspector General (OIG). The report reveals several instances in which EPA employees did not cooperate with the IG.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman today announced that o - n June 9, 2014, John Kweku Eshun, 52, of Ellenwood, Ga., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 41 months in prison. Eshun is the 12th and final defendant sentenced in Operation Frozen Freight - a multi-year investigation conducted by the DEA and Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Beverly Sue Gingell (60, Palmetto) on a federal complaint charging her with committing wire fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison, and a fine of $250,000, or twice the gross gain caused by the...
