News from March 2014
By USDA Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Good morning. The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will now come to order.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, by a vote of 229 to 183. The bipartisan legislation will protect an affordable and diverse electricity portfolio by providing a reasonable alternative to EPA’s greenhouse gas rules for power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Sexual Abuse of a Minor was sentenced on March 4, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, woman convicted of Bank Embezzlement was sentenced on March 6, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report on the U.S. Coast Guard's (USCG) oversight and implementation of recommended...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Winfield has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for using a firearm in the commission of an armed bank robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Eminence MO:Standing in the hot summer sun and cold winter winds for over a hundred and twenty years, historic Alley Mill can benefit from a checkup.Recently, the red mill received that much needed physical to determine its current health.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Spencer, South Dakota, man convicted of Unlawful Taking of Wildlife was sentenced on March 3, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Simko.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of a criminal complaint in which nine individuals were charged with theft from an employee benefit plan. If convicted, Brandon Alfonso (28), James McCall (32), Marta Blackmer (70), Phillip Simmons (50), Ian Chase Dove...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: The manager of the U.S. Postal Service’s Vehicle Maintenance Facility in Cleveland was charged with taking cash bribes in exchange for awarding business and contracts from the Postal Service, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Monica Weyler, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General Eastern Area Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its hearing series “Benefits of and Challenges to Energy Access in the 21st Century" with a focus on fuel supply and infrastructure. The hearing explored how rail, pipelines, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: In El Paso today, 41-year-old Christopher Morris was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for failure to register as a sex offender announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and United States Marshal Robert Almonte.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its hearing series “Benefits of and Challenges to Energy Access in the 21st Century" with a focus on fuel supply and infrastructure. The hearing explored how rail, pipelines, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that David Whitworth, 42, of Madison, Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to production of child pornography and receipt of child pornography before Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 35 years in prison, a $500,000 fine, or both.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington today sentenced David F. Lewis to 6 years in federal prison for access device fraud and aggravated identity theft. As part of his sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $105,271.00, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Lewis pleaded guilty on Dec. 10, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: An Indictment was filed today charging Kyle Costello, 27, and Matthew Hill, 29, both of Lancaster, PA, with conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, armed bank robbery, carrying and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and aiding and abetting, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Hill is also charged with attempted bank robbery.
By State Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing on “Syria Spillover: The Growing Threat of Terrorism and Sectarianism in the Middle East and Ukraine Update.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Dakota Cole Yarbrough, 20, of Fort Polk, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik, to serve 12 months in prison and two years of supervised release for one count of simple burglary. Haik also ordered Yarbrough to pay $164.10 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 6, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Contact with a Child was sentenced on March 4, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
