News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Ponderosa Boat Ramp and Inspection Station to Open July 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Leaders from the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee today introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen and improve post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Anthony Taylor Jr., 26, of Stockton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to three years and one month in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Wilkes-Barre man pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton to sex trafficking of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, Calif. (June 26, 2014) - The National Park Service and the Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial will present two events on July 17 and 19 highlighting a tragic disaster 70 years ago in Concord, Calif., during World War II that helped promote the desegregation of the United States military.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Brian Keith Johnston, age 41, of Calcutta, Ohio, with bank robbery, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: In Austin this morning, 23-year-old Michael Wolfe (a.k.a. “Faruq") pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, announced Robert Pitman, United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas, Christopher Combs, Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.- The Bureau of Land Management in Colorado will host a competitive coal lease sale at 10 a.m. on July 30 for a lease by application filed by Bowie Resources, LLC, for a 1,789-acre tract in Delta County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a former executive of the Shaw Group has pled guilty to engaging in insider trading. The conviction is the result of an ongoing federal investigation into the use of pre-merger confidential information regarding the 2012 acquisition of Shaw by Chicago Bridge and Iron Company (CB&I).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced that Marvin Griffin, 50, of St Thomas, Virgin Islands was sentenced yesterday in District Court to 100 months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute five kilograms of cocaine. After serving his prison sentence, Griffin will be on Federal supervised release for four years. Griffin was remanded to the custody of the United States Marshals Service to complete service of his sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Houston man has been arrested for a bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Through 25 years of working with small and mid-size U.S. manufacturers, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) centers across the country have seen that these companies often need help finding technologies and timely business opportunities, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Abuse of pain medications like oxycodone continues to plague Georgia communities at epidemic levels and now accounts for six times more deaths than all of the traditional illegal drugs combined. The United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Georgia has enhanced its prosecution efforts on the prescription drug abuse problem as part of a broad effort to reverse this deadly trend.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. and Department of Justice Tax Division Acting Assistant Attorney General Tamara Ashford announced today that Renee Jarvis, 51, of Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to conspiring with others to defraud the United States and to steal government funds. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Stevens Nore, 33, of Port Saint Lucie, was convicted by a jury of thirty counts, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men were indicted by a federal grand jury today for robbing First Federal Bank in Raytown, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 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) requested Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Koskinen provide necessary information regarding the “lost" Lerner emails and the allegation that IRS cannot recover all emails from Lois Lerner and those of six other personnel involved with the targeting of conservative organizations as requested by the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Waxahachie, Texas, man, who was arrested a year ago after law enforcement discovered a firearm, bomb-making chemicals and related literature in his vehicle, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
