News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today another conviction in the ongoing federal and state investigation into corruption at the Bureau of Auditing and Compliance Services for the Louisiana Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). The DCFS has cooperated fully and provided valuable assistance with the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the arrest of ERIC GIVENS, a police officer with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak"), and the former treasurer of the national union for Amtrak police officers, on charges of wire fraud, embezzlement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Health (113th Congress) . The committee will host its second 21st Century Cures roundtable on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, to discuss what steps Congress can take to bridge the gap between these advances and the regulatory policies that govern them, ultimately advancing digital and personalized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Yesterday in federal court, a 32-year-old Princeton man pleaded guilty to one count of Distribution of Child Pornography. William C. E. Strobel, who was indicted on Feb. 19, 2014, entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Donovan W. Frank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Scranton today indicted Joseph Wing, age 27, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary Canaan in Waymart, Pennsylvania, for assaulting another inmate with intent to commit murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS -- The United States Attorney's Office announced today that former officials of the Blackfeet Tribe's Po'Ka Project, a multi-million dollar federally funded effort to address the needs of troubled youth on the reservation, were sentenced in federal court in Great Falls by U.S. District Court Judge Brian M. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Justin D. Hurst, 25, and Audrey Lashay Tillman, 27, both of Jackson, were arrested and appeared in federal court today pursuant to criminal complaints charging them with recruiting, enticing, transporting, providing and maintaining female children under the age of 18 to engage in commercial...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Health (113th Congress) . The committee will host its second 21st Century Cures roundtable on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, to discuss what steps Congress can take to bridge the gap between these advances and the regulatory policies that govern them, ultimately advancing digital and personalized...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Health (113th Congress) . The committee will host its second 21st Century Cures roundtable on Tuesday, June 24, 2014, to discuss what steps Congress can take to bridge the gap between these advances and the regulatory policies that govern them, ultimately advancing digital and personalized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - William Bucci, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Superseding Indictment with four counts of making and subscribing false federal income tax returns, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that Bucci underreported his income for the tax years 2007 through 2010.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to William Craig Fugate, Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), regarding allegations that the Agency may not be fulfilling its obligations to support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in timely reviewing the safety requirements for decommissioning nuclear power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Thomas Caul, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of Inspector General, announce that Diana Cunningham, 56, of Pembroke Pines, pled guilty to two counts of theft of government funds, in...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this evening is poised to consider five bipartisan public health bills led by the Energy and Commerce Committee. The measures build upon the committee’s proven record of success with a number of legislative accomplishments to improve public health already...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: At Friendship Collegiate Academy in Northeast Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Ricardo Cruz was sentenced today in Federal Court after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. Cruz received a sentence of 35 months imprisonment, with 5 years of supervised release to follow.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: In Q and A with Rep. Walberg, Archivist says IRS failed to comply with the Federal Records Act
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement following the Senate’s 52 to 43 vote to confirm Leon Rodriguez to be Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of Homeland Security.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today will vote on important job-creating energy legislation authored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, modernizes the outdated approval process...
