News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, a jury convicted, Thomas L. Kimmel, 68, of Conspiracy, Mail Fraud, and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Jury Rejects Defendant’s Claim That He Was Simply An Aspiring Rap Artist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Nathan Edward Prim, 32, of Foley, was sentenced in federal court for his possession of a firearm after he had been convicted of a felony offense. Prim was also sentenced on a second count, which charged that he was illegally in possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. Prim had entered guilty pleas to both charges in March of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in McCullen v. Coakley, striking down a Massachusetts state law requiring a 35-foot fixed buffer zone around healthcare clinics while affirming the legality of buffer zones generally. After the ruling, Ranking Members John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) delivered the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Kevin L. Ashby, 25, of Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced today to life in prison for participating in a May 2009 murder, along with a concurrent sentence of 40 years for participating in the Thug Relations gang, which engaged in narcotics distribution, weapons violations and multiple acts of violence, including several murders, in the Newport News area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: FOR PAYING BRIBES TO FORMER GREENVILLE SUPERINTENDENT.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Torrential rains overnight caused what are usually small streams to become raging torrents along and across the Denali Park Road. At 4:30 am the National Park Service closed the park road beyond Wonder Lake due to flooding in the Kantishna area at Eureka and Friday Creeks (which normally flow at very...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Charles Keith Rolfe (60, Heyburn, Idaho) today pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography. Rolfe faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years, up to 20 years in federal prison. He also faces a mandatory minimum of 5 years, up to a lifetime of supervision, after his release, and will be required to register under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee members today introduced the first in a series of legislative proposals to reform the nation’s higher education system. The bills were introduced following the release earlier this week of a committee white paper outlining key principles for reauthorizing the Higher Education Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Abass Issa (47, Flemming Island) today pleaded guilty to stealing government property described as fraudulently-obtained tax refunds. Issa faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, as well as an obligation to pay back restitution to the United States in the amount of $1,909,403.66. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, and Congressman Sander Levin, Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Committee, introduced the Stop Corporate Expatriation and Invest in America’s Infrastructure Act (H.R. 4985 ). This legislation...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: As the 4th of July approaches, the Bureau of Land Management would like to remind everyone that fireworks are prohibited on BLM managed lands. This year, in an effort to further reduce the threat of unwanted human-caused fires, the BLM now also prohibits exploding targets and luminaries with open flame.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a report that finds that the United States is the only advanced nation in the world with a ban on oil exports. The report - A Ban for One: The Outdated Prohibition on U.S. Oil Exports in Global Context - shows that of the 34 member countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the United States is the only member to prohibit oil exports.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Philadelphia - Debbie Miller, Archeologist at Independence National Historical Park, has been awarded a grant from the American Ceramics Circle that may help reveal the role of nineteenth century Philadelphia potters in the making of refined redware ceramics.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Lowell Pimley announced that Reclamation will provide $1.29 million to nine projects for Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Feasibility Studies. These nine projects are located in California, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman today announced the appointment of 19 additional members to six agricultural trade advisory committees.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed eight bipartisan measures including legislation to promote religious freedom in Turkey, to target financial sanctions against Hezbollah, and to urge the resumption of adoptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 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 Committee markup of H.R. 4411, the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act; H.R. 4640, the Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission Act; H.Res.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area immigration consultant and one of her employees were arrested this morning after being named in an indictment that alleges they filed fraudulent “green card" applications on behalf of immigrants who were married to U.S. citizens, some of whom paid more than $20,000 for their services.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Chad Dolaway, 23, of Pine City, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr., to receipt of child pornography. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
