News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Rosa Fernandez, 38, of Camarillo, was sentenced earlier today by United States District Court Judge John A. Kronstadt to 97 months in federal prison for her involvement in a mortgage fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, Rex Maralit, a New York City Police Officer previously assigned to police headquarters in Manhattan, and his brother Wilfredo Maralit, a Customs and Border Protection Officer previously assigned to Los Angeles International Airport, pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court to violating ...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Today, the Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office sold seven parcels totaling 4,676 acres for $295,688 including rentals and fees at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale. The highest per-acre price was for an 884-acre parcel in Rio Blanco County sold to Ursa Operating Company, LLC in Denver...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) introduced H.R.4835, the “Stopping Abusive Student Loan Collection Practices in Bankruptcy Act of 2014." This legislation curtails ruthless collection tactics used by creditors against borrowers who have taken out student loans and sought bankruptcy relief...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Mexican nationals Jesus Avalos-Cervantes, 26, and Pedro Pantoja-Padilla, 46, charging them with one count of conspiring to distribute, possess with intent to distribute, and manufacture marijuana, one count of manufacturing marijuana, and one count of causing more than $1,000 in damage to the national forest, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Irfan M. Jameel, 51, of Virginia Beach, Va., was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and use of a false social security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: A resident of Flint, Michigan, pleaded guilty on June 5, 2014, to aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Carolyn Weber, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AYMAN RABADI, of Yonkers, New York, was sentenced to 37 months in prison after having pleaded guilty last May to a charge of wire fraud relating to his impersonation of a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI").
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced an inmate at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield was convicted in federal court today of assaulting a federal correctional counselor at the facility.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, welcomed recent support from the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1812, the Union representing Voice of America (VOA) workers, for H.R. 4490. The bipartisan legislation reforms U.S. international broadcasting and recently passed the Committee unanimously.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 48 community-based organizations in 26 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for grants to promote economic growth, support rural business development and create jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: I have had a real interest in health care data transparency for years. The way I see it, data has the capacity to completely change the health care landscape in this country. Data can personalize care in ways that have never been done before. We already know that the same treatment can have very different...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Congaree National Park Superintendent Tracy Stakely announced the conversion of approximately 6,690 acres of park land from "potential" wilderness to wilderness.The land was originally labeled "potential' wilderness in October 1988.The conversion was accomplished via publication of a notice in the Federal Register last month.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine how, “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Pitts noted that the president’s repeated promise of “If you like your doctor, you will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE -Lena “Mickey" Jacobs Coombs was indicted yesterday afternoon on wire fraud and money laundering charges alleging that she embezzled money from her former employer, Symantec Corporation, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Stabenow Conducts ‘Big Picture’ Examination of Child Nutrition at Ag Committee’s First Reauthorization Hearing
By EPA Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine how, “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Pitts noted that the president’s repeated promise of “If you like your doctor, you will be...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rahmil Williams, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for his role in an armed carjacking that took place last summer outside an apartment building in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to making permanent the unpaid-for S Corporation (H.R. 4453) and Section 179 (H.R. 4457) tax credits...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine how, “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Pitts noted that the president’s repeated promise of “If you like your doctor, you will be...
