News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to assaulting a federal agent with her car while he was attempting to apprehend her boyfriend during a foot chase.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A physician specializing in pain management was charged today for overbilling the Medicare program.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following reaction to the announcement that the Conference of State Bank Supervisors will create a task force to study new and emerging payment systems, like virtual currencies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Nathaniel M. Johnson, aged 57, of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge W. Louis Sands on Thursday, March 13, 2014, in Albany, to serve 15 months in the Bureau of Prisons for theft of mail by a postal employee.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: I’d like to thank Chairman Kingston and Ranking Member DeLauro and welcome Secretary Sebelius. I apologize for arriving late, but I was in a meeting with the Ukrainian Prime Minister and there is another hearing with Secretary Hagel.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to making false claims on 186 federal tax returns so that her clients received nearly $478,000 in tax credits to which they were not entitled.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, gave the following statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee hearing “Advancing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY 2015 Foreign Affairs Budget.".
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 1:30 p.m. ET, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing at which Secretary of State John Kerry will testify. The hearing, entitled “Advancing U.S. Interests Abroad: The FY 2015 Foreign Affairs Budget, " will provide Secretary Kerry an opportunity to justify President Obama’s FY 2015 foreign affairs budget request.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Cover Crop Solutions LLC, Robesonia, Pa., has paid $350 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the Committee will convene a hearing TOMORROW to examine the progress made in U.S.-Taiwan relations over the past 35 years. The hearing entitled, “The Promise of the Taiwan Relations Act " will begin at 9:30 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that after being caught fleeing with stolen electronics from a stranger's home, BRANDON MICHAEL JACKSON, aka BRANDON BUCKLES, was sentenced on March 11, 2014, to two years in prison, three years supervised release, and ordered by a judge to pay over $7,000 in restitution to the family whose house he burglarized with two others.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Ronald David Brown, Jr., 39, who is in custody at CCA’s Leavenworth Detention Center, is charged with one count of bank robbery. The indictment alleges that on Nov. 27, 2013, he robbed the Kansas State Bank at 1101 Bluemont Avenue in Manhattan, Kan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Benjamin Maes, 32, of Hinsdale, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment charging the following defendants in connection with a conspiracy to participate in murder in aid of a racketeering enterprise known as the La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: MEMO. The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014, passed by the U.S. Senate today, is the 17th bipartisan bill in the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s jurisdiction to pass the Senate in the 113th Congress under Chairman Tom Harkin’s leadership. Eleven of these...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Comprehensive Management Plan will Provide Access and Protect Tuolumne River Resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Kevin L. Ashby, 25, of Newport News, Va., pleaded guilty yesterday to participating in a racketeering conspiracy and violence in aid of racketeering including murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Robert Stewart, age 28, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Judge Hollander enhanced Stewart’s sentence upon finding that he is an armed career criminal based on four previous drug convictions.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 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 after an Inspector General report found the Department of Justice (DOJ) failed to prioritize the investigation of mortgage fraud and publicly reported inaccurate statistics regarding the prosecution of mortgage fraud cases...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the bipartisan Senate agreement to extend unemployment insurance...
