News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that BORIS LISYANKSY was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for his role in hiring a hitman to kill two Queens businessmen, which resulted in a non-fatal shooting in May 2010. LISYANKSY was convicted of one count of murder for hire and one count of conspiracy to commit murder for hire on April 29, 2013, after a six-day trial before Judge George B. Daniels in Manhattan federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROBBIE ROSSI, 42, formerly of Massachusetts, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Fire Island National Seashore, New York - A close-up view of a Founding Father's rifle and sword are among the images presented by local artist Xiomaro in his collection "William Floyd's House of Revolution," a collection of photographs featured at "The William Floyd Estate Comes to Patchogue" exhibit...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jayson Gustina, 24, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sanostee, N.M., was sentenced this morning to 27 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction. Gustina also was order to pay $1,654.92 in restitution to cover the costs of medical care for the victim of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JAMES STALEY was indicted for his alleged scheme to defraud investors by making false promises of high rates of return and minimal risk. The indictment states that Staley defrauded eleven investors/lenders by causing them to invest over $3.4 million, giving him commissions totaling over $570,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Maryland man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton, by United States District Judge Malachy Mannion, to serve 160 months in prison on a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Chapmanville, West Virginia, man was sentenced to eight months’ home confinement and three years’ probation for distribution of oxymorphone, a powerful painkiller often sold under the brand name Opana, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Carl Tomblin, 50, previously pleaded guilty to distribution of oxymorphone on March 25, 2014. Today’s sentence was imposed by United States District Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Wanted to make sure you saw Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sandy Levin’s (D-MI) interview with Rep. John Mica (R-FL) yesterday on PBS NewsHour to discuss the Republican-led investigation into the IRS. You can watch the segment here.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Rogers. Let me begin by thanking Chairman Crenshaw for his efforts to conduct this subcommittee in a fair and bipartisan manner. We do not always agree on everything, but you are always willing to listen to our side, and you have made efforts to accommodate our side's priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Javier J. Reyes, 20, of the Village of Santa Clara in Grant County, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 48 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for the unlawful possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle with an obliterated serial number and for receiving a firearm while under indictment.
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act (H.R. 6). The bipartisan legislation requires the Department of Energy to expedite U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on June 19, 2014, United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Shawna Faith Rene Stokes of Omaha, Nebraska, age 35, to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment, following her conviction for Social Security Fraud and Theft of U.S. Government...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 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 meet TOMORROW at 9:00 a.m. to consider...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein (both D-CA) today praised the passage of their resolution honoring the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, legislation signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864 that permanently protected the Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Grove.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Dear Chairman Wyden: We write to you today to request that you convene, as soon as practicable, a hearing of the Senate Finance Committee so as to make a full, public inquiry into the alleged loss of emails and other electronic information by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of certain key current...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced the indictment by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg of four men for distribution of crack and powder cocaine and heroin in York, Pennsylvania.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Dear Ambassador Froman: . I write to express my continued concern with India’s policies on intellectual property rights and to request that you take action if India’s new government does not take significant steps to improve its protection of intellectual property rights. As I have expressed many times...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Senate coauthors of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) today hailed the Senate passage of the bill, which seeks to update and improve the nation’s workforce development system, and together urged the U.S. House of Representatives to take up the bill and pass it swiftly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marco Antonio Granados, 20, of Fontana, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
