News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for stealing more than $2.5 million dollars from the U.S. Government through a food stamps scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today responded to the findings from General Motors’ internal investigation relating to the ignition switch recall. The committee leaders announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the sentencing of GREGORY MARTIN WALKER, 47, formerly of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. WALKER previously pled guilty on Oct. 23, 2013, to wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON Two former part owners of four Subway restaurants in Lexington admitted they employed unauthorized aliens and intentionally failed to pay them lawful wages.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today responded to the findings from General Motors’ internal investigation relating to the ignition switch recall. The committee leaders announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The Xiong, Hurlburt, Tlusty, and Varela-Garcia indictments were returned yesterday; the other indictments were returned today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two Hargill men have received significant sentences for the July 2012 aggravated assault on a Homeland Security Investigations agent, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury in McAllen convicted Pedro Alvarado, 43, and his son Arnoldo Alvarado, 20, on March 21, 2014, following a four-day trial.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Carlsbad Caverns National Park is under a Stage I Fire Restriction due to high temperatures, low relative humidity, and extremely dry vegetation. Stage I fire restrictions include.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf sentenced Debbie Neumann, 52, of Tucson, Arizona, to 120 months in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will convene 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...
By State Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois, today announced that 15 individuals have been charged by federal criminal complaint or information for allegedly submitting false timesheets for work not performed as personal assistants through the Home Services Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Darrell Roby (41, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. Roby faces a mandatory minimum term of 15 years in federal prison, up to life. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Jason H. Quinney age 39, of Toledo, Ohio, with receipt and distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jamie Golladay, 32, of Antelope, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 14 years in prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession with intent to distribute heroin, and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates— Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson concluded a four-day trip to the Middle East where he visited Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). During the trip, Secretary Johnson met with regional leaders to discuss homeland security-related priorities, including counterterrorism, aviation security, and efforts to ensure our common security interests.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Programs that Allow Producers to Protect Land and Help New, Minority and Veteran Farmers Get their Start in Agriculture WASHINGTON, June 4, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that farmers, ranchers and landowners committed to protecting and conserving environmentally sensitive land ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Additional Resources for Rural Exporters, Future Rural Forums Canonsburg, PA, June 4, 2014 -- The White House Rural Council today held the first "Made in Rural America" regional export forum with business owners and local leaders in Canonsburg. The one day meeting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have issued the agenda for their joint public workshop, which will be held on June 23, 2014, to explore the economic and legal analysis of conditional pricing practices among firms in a supply chain. Announced in early May, the workshop ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: A former trader for ConvergEx Global Markets Limited (CGM Limited) — a former securities broker-dealer registered in Bermuda — has been charged in the District of New Jersey with conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
