News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Ronald Stone, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by superseding indictment with three robberies or attempted robberies at various Cosi stores, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Stone was added to an indictment charging James Pray. According to the indictment, on Dec. 3...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: “Today’s hearing is the eighth in our series examining critical issues in postsecondary education as the Committee looks to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. The topic we will discuss today is of central importance, and will remain a primary focus of federal policy going forward: strengthening our federal loan programs to ensure they’re working well for students and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Prosecution is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Former Teamster Fraudulently Claimed Nearly $300,000 In Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Verna Dean Oliver, 50, and Daniel Jerome Oliver, 27, both of Lake Charles, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to possession with intent to distribute methylenedioxypyrovalerone and methylone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today following the arrest of Jeffrey G. Vincent, 64, of Madera, who is charged with five counts of evading the assessment and payment of individual income taxes, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cameron Michael Williams, 38, a member of the Mescalero Apache Nation, was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 41 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition. Williams also was sentenced to eight months in...
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives is considering the bipartisan Ukraine Support Act (H.R. 4278), introduced by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member. The legislation, which passed the House...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 25, 2014, Brandon Waldrip, 32, of Rockford, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison, by the Honorable Thomas W. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, for possession of unregistered weapons and selling a firearm to a convicted felon. Upon his release from prison, Waldrip will be subject to two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Defendant's Bid to Be Released Before Completing His Sentence Denied.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury in Houston has returned a six-count indictment against Dante Phearse, 33, for calling in bomb threats to two Houston synagogues, a municipal courthouse and a private business. The announcement is being made jointly by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas and the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Heath J. Kellogg and Stacy P. Smith have been sentenced to federal prison for counterfeiting offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: More results of U.S. Attorney’s Violent Crime Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: How would you like to spend a Saturday morning helping preserve part of our nation’s history while getting a free lunch and a t-shirt? Stones River National Battlefield calls upon our friends and neighbors to join us at the McFadden Farm on Saturday April 5, 2014 as we work to restore the historic landscape...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Three men from the Mahoning Valley were each indicted on one count of being felons illegally in possession of firearms and ammunition, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, March 27, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: A new probiotic for pigs could mean less manure to manage, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) studies. Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists conducted the first published investigation of the use of bacteria as a probiotic to increase fiber fermentation rates and reduce manure output in pigs that consume high-fiber diets. ARS is USDA's chief intramural scientific research agency.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Stephen Lynch, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and the Census, and Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Two individuals involved in a methamphetamine (meth) conspiracy in upper East Tennessee were sentenced this week by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge. On Mar. 24, 2014, Aaron A. Stout, 31, of Mountain City, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 168 months in federal prison...
By State Newswire | Mar 27, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the deteriorating situation in Venezuela:
