News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas -While fireworks are available in Nye County and safe and sane fireworks go on sale in Clark County June 28, fire restrictions remain in place in Southern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: More Than $190,000 in Funds. Defendant Spent Thousands on Hotel Stays, Clothing, Other Personal Expenses. WASHINGTON - JC Stamps, a former union official, pled guilty today to embezzling more than $190,000 from two labor organizations he founded and an employee benefits fund. The guilty plea was announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: To Filing a False Statement on Campaign Finance Report.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the removal of chemical weapons from Syria...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MAURICE L. MILLIGAN, 35, of New London, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, June 23, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On June 19, 2014, Albert Wesley, a/k/a “Boogie," a/k/a “Boog," 29, of South Holland, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Dominican national who was extradited from Canada earlier this year today admitted his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest-running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COVINGTON, Ky. - A Covington, Ky., man admitted in federal court today he sold heroin that resulted in a death. Timothy Tingle-Brown, 29, pleaded guilty today to causing the death of John Baum by distributing heroin before U.S.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement in response to the news that Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman, has been released from prison in Sudan after she had been convicted of apostasy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sam Eylicio, Jr., 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to participating in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Eylicio will be sentenced to 125 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Michael Townsend, age 69, of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, a former business agent and trustee of Teamsters Local 337, was ordered to pay a fine of $18,000 as a result of his felony conviction on union bribery charges, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to a unilateral subpoena issued by Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to Jennifer O’Connor, who currently works in the White House Counsel’s office. O’Connor worked previously at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from May to November 2013, but she left months before recent discoveries about Lois Lerner’s emails...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today continued its work to advance energy efficiency and an “all-of-the-above" energy strategy. The House approved a series of bills to increase energy and cost savings for federal agencies and schools and support the production and use of hydropower.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: After two moderate doses of a bacteria-derived protein were fed to worm-infected swine in an experiment, all intestinal roundworm larvae in the swine were damaged or destroyed and the infection was nearly completely eliminated, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and University of California-San Diego scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kenneth Sweat, 26, of Lackawanna, N.Y., pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute and distribute crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today responded to the Supreme Court’s ruling related to EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today's Supreme Court decision on whether the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) went beyond their scope of authority as mandated by the Clean Air Act (CAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Patty E. Smith, age 58, of Lohn, TX, faces up to 15 years in federal prison and full restitution for embezzling more than $500,000 from the Lohn Independent School District (LISD) announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge R. Damon Rowe, Dallas Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Sam Eylicio, Jr., 37, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to participating in a cocaine base trafficking conspiracy. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Eylicio will be sentenced to 125 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a New Fairfield, Conn., man was sentenced in federal court today for making false claims for tax refunds.
