News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Chenhsin Chan, a/k/a Paul Chan has been arraigned on federal charges of mail fraud, the introduction into interstate commerce of adulterated food, the knowing distribution of a listed chemical, and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is the measure of how dense they will get under normal conditions, and it's a value that seems to be constant for similar aggregates across an impressively wide size range from nanometers to tens of meters.*
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - William P. Danielczyk Jr., formerly of Oakton, Virginia, pleaded guilty to one count of willful failure to collect and pay over employment taxes for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2010, and one count of theft or embezzlement from an employee benefit plan for the calendar year 2010, the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO -These seven people have been arrested on an indictment for their alleged participation in a methamphetamine conspiracy beginning as early as 2009 and continuing until 2013, in Knox and Adair Counties. They are expected to appear in federal court this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretary Foxx: We are writing to you with great concern about protecting consumer health on commercial flights. While many major carriers have decided to prohibit the use of electronic cigarettes, federal regulations still allow these products to be used during flight. The Department of Transportation...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Due to increased fire danger throughout Grand Canyon National Park, park officials will be implementing fire restrictions for all areas within the park except the Colorado River corridor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 24 alleged members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana trafficking group have been arrested and charged with multiple violations of federal law, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Joseph M. Arabit, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). A 25th defendant was also taken into custody and charged by criminal complaint. The defendants are all residents of Laredo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Tracey Lee Rowell, age 41, of Latta, Bobby Lee Scott, age 29, of Dillon, Denise Locklear, 35, of Latta, and Lakisha Marie Clark, age 28, of Dillon, were sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for participating...
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene the first in a series of hearings on the Iranian regime’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the Obama Administration’s ongoing nuclear negotiations with Tehran. At the first hearing, TODAY,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Farrell, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that KENNETH ZITO...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Paul Ford, 33, of Monroe, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 46 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for conspiracy to manufacture marijuana and manufacturing marijuana. Ford pleaded guilty to the offenses on May 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Kensey Lamonte Wright, 42, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Sami Osmakac (27, Pinellas Park) guilty of attempted use of weapons of mass destruction and possession of a fully automatic firearm. Osmakac faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for October 7, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released a staff report titled, “Systemic Waste and Abuse at the Social Security Administration: How Rubber-Stamping Disability Judges Cost Hundreds of Billions of Taxpayer Dollars."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - Donald Post, of League City, 69, has been ordered to prison for 40 years following his convictions of production and distribution of child pornography involving a four-year-old minor female as well as possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Post pleaded guilty March 5, 2014.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a hearing of the full Committee about verification of Iran’s nuclear compliance...
