News from March 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Seattle, Wash. - Forensic scientists from around the world flocked here in mid-February for a professional association meeting that was as intriguing as a Sherlock Holmes mystery and as riveting as an episode of CSI - the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS). I tagged along with my colleagues from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to help spread the word about what NIST does in forensic science.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate Floor today, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, slammed President Obama’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 Budget proposal as another rehash of failed ideas from the Obama Administration that would result in higher taxes, more spending, and more debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, MS - Four individuals indicted in the Southern District of Mississippi face various drug charges as the result of an extensive three-year drug investigation that targeted an illegal prescription drug ring, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown with the Drug Enforcement Administration - New Orleans Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Ulises Sandoval, 27, of Dallas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Ed Kinkeade to serve a total of 300 months (25 years) in federal prison following his guilty plea in November 2013 to one count of production of child pornography and one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: GULFPORT, Miss. - Four individuals indicted in the Southern District of Mississippi face various drug charges as the result of an extensive three-year drug investigation that targeted an illegal prescription drug ring, announced Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown with the Drug Enforcement Administration - New Orleans Field Division and United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis from the Southern District of Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Huntington, W.Va. - A Michigan man was sentenced to nine years and three months’ imprisonment for possession of heroin with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Darius Lajuan Kincannon, 30, of Redford, Michigan, arrived in Huntington from Michigan in February 2013...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to examine the administration’s fiscal year 2015 budget, Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said the budget must address the problems facing middle class families and the economy. Senator Wyden pointed to the tax code as...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, hosted an event to highlight a new report by the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) and Thomson Reuters. The report, titled “The Digital Economy: Potential, Perils,...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement after the Obama Administration announced it would, again, delay ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements for health plans offered by insurance companies...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 47-year-old Longview, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Click on link at bottom of page to read Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh's testimony presented to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Subcommittee on Government Operations, on March 4, 2014, regarding the Department of Justice's marijuana enforcement policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA -- A superseding indictment was returned late yesterday by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia, charging LILLIE MAE EUBANK, 39, with first degree murder in the beating death of her husband, Specialist John Joseph Beans Eubank, 29, on Nov. 30, 2013, on Fort Stewart. MS.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has announced that TOMORROW, Thursday, March 6 the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the recent events in Ukraine and the next steps forward for U.S. foreign policy in the region. The hearing entitled, “U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Ukraine " will begin at 9:00 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, CA -.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nathan.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: We are writing to strongly condemn your actions at today’s Committee hearing. You began the hearing by spending approximately 15 minutes posing questions to former IRS official Lois Lerner, who stated, as she had nine months ago, that she was invoking her Fifth Amendment right not...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Michael DelRio Admits To Conspiring To Commit Identification Document Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Recently retired Grand Teton National Park Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott received APPL's 2014 Agency Partner of the Year award in recognition of her efforts to thoroughly integrate partnerships into the successful management and operations of a public lands site. Scott was noted for consistently emphasizing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury late Tuesday convicted a Birmingham man of possession with the intent to distribute a half kilogram of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay A. Morris.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment against Mary Vaquera-Garcia, 27, and Daniel Dominguez-Guardiola, 28, alleging a conspiracy to use debit/credit cards with the intent to defraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
