News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Carlos White, 38, Jesica Leonard, 25, and Steve Fulcott, aka Tommy G, 21, all of Rochester, N.Y., and Andre McFarlane, 34, and Marlando Allen, 34, of Jamaica, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Ferrelview, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to using four young victims to produce child pornography as part of a nationwide child pornography ring.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) met with the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Inspector General (IG) Pat O’Carroll yesterday regarding his request for a full investigation of Social Security’s management and failure to prevent disability fraud conspiracies.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for the Popcorn Board. The board will fill two seats to replace representatives whose terms expire at the end of this year. Each selected member will serve a three-year term.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released draft legislation to fix America’s broken tax code by lowering tax rates while making the code simpler and fairer for families and job creators. Camp’s latest draft, the “Tax Reform Act of 2014," spurs stronger economic growth, greater job creation and puts more money in the pockets of hardworking taxpayers.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Little Snake Field Office in Craig is reminding people planning to collect shed antlers in northern Colorado this spring that it is illegal to travel off existing roads in a motor vehicle on BLM public lands in this area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a sealed three-count indictment on Feb. 27, 2014, against Kamyar Soltani, 45, of El Dorado Hills, charging him with attempted tax evasion, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The pending indictment was unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas- A Wichita Falls, Texas, man, David Calandreli, 27, who pleaded guilty in November 2013 to one count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 300 months (25 years) in federal prison. The announcement was made today by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Nicholas.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Alaska Resource Advisory Council (RAC) placer mining subcommittee will meet via videoconference on March 7, 2014.
By State Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H. Res. 488, which supports the people of Venezuela as they protest peacefully for democratic change and calls for an end to violence. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), recently passed the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man has been convicted on all counts in connection with a March 2012 carjacking, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. House Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) will chair a Congressional field hearing at the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) William J. Hughes Technical Center, located at the Atlantic City International Airport, next Tuesday to examine the Technical Center’s pivotal role in FAA’s efforts to modernize the nation’s air traffic control system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Phillip.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jason Pratt, 30, of Hampton, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 41 months in prison for unarmed bank robbery and conspiracy to commit unarmed bank robbery, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Prosecution represents more results in U.S. Attorney’s ongoing "Operation Community Watch".
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 664,857 visitors to Petrified Forest National Park in 2012 spent over $39 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 488 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Phillip Wayne Workman, 36, of Logan, West Virginia, was sentenced to two years and three months in prison for obstructing a joint state and federal arson investigation into a Feb. 1, 2012 fire that destroyed a commercial...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Napoleon Andrade, 32, of Central Falls, who is currently incarcerated while serving a 10-year federal prison sentence for drug trafficking, money laundering, theft of government property and federal firearm violations was enhanced today by 63 months for his role in a March 2010 home...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 6 years in federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
