News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee today sent a letter to Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) requesting a hearing on bipartisan solutions to funding for the Federal Highway Trust Fund program. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Highway Trust Fund will fall below a critical funding point in mid-July, and without Congressional action will run out of funds entirely shortly thereafter. PDF of the letter is here and the full text is below.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to twelve months and one day in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Thirty-one people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy that brought heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine to Northeast Ohio from Chicago and south Texas and then distributed the drugs from homes on the east side of Cleveland, law enforcement officials announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. June 26: Live Webinar on Energy 101-Energy in the Post-Secondary Setting. Webinar Sponsor: Education and Workforce Development. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Energy 101-Energy in the Classroom" on Thursday, June 26, from 3:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Eastern Daylight...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U. S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Monmouth County, N.J., doctor who allegedly wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was indicted on charges that he participated in a conspiracy to illegally distribute the medication, laundered money and failed to pay taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a York County man was sentenced today to twenty years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that STEPHANIE BROWN pled guilty today to engaging in fraud in connection with federal financial aid to attend an online state college. BROWN pled guilty in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV and is scheduled to be sentenced on October 8, 2014, at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Takini, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 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 26, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Mahmoud Abdel-Ghani Mohammad Assaf (45, Jordan) and Yasser Ahmad Obeid (19, Lebanon) have been charged in a federal criminal complaint with conspiring to smuggle firearms from the United States, and conspiring to deal in firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dawn Nguyen, 25, of Greece, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge David G. Larimer, to knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms; selling and disposing of firearms to William Spengler, a known felon; and possession of firearms while being an unlawful user of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Kimberly Dawn Logsdon, of Chickasha, Oklahoma, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for embezzling from an Indian casino and failing to file a tax return, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding recent Administration initiatives to improve security programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 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 26, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former employee of a bank in Crawford County has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $2.5 million from the bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Alberto Hernandez, 28, of El Paso, TX, was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 46 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Daniel Enrique Padilla-Esparza, 36, of Thornton, Colo., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to an indictment charging him with possession of more than five kilograms of cocaine with intent to distribute.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: “This is the eleventh in a series of hearings to inform this committee’s reauthorization of the Higher Education Act. The focus of today’s hearing, campus sexual assault, is a profoundly important one.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif) and National Security Subcommittee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), pressed Secretary of State John Kerry after reports (here and here ) that State Department embassy design efforts haverecently emphasized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Kevin D. Dowell, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to 366 days in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release as a result of his conviction for wire fraud in a...
