News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wakpala, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Devontae West, age 26, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to possession of child pornography and conspiracy to commit bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: On March 24, 2014, an Indictment was unsealed charging Jason Robert Jackson, 24, and Stacy Lynn Henry, 40, both of Lincoln, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing methamphetamine between January of 2012 and October of 2013. Henry had her first court appearance on March 26, 2014, and she was released on conditions. Henry’s next scheduled court appearance is a status conference on May 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. District Judge L. Scott Coogler today sentenced the former executive director of the Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity to two years in prison for stealing close to $500,000 from the non-profit organization, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today after the World Trade Organization ruling on China’s export policies for rare-earth elements...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I think with your comment with regard to the grant and the lobbying connection it’s important to note that the Inspector General at HHS said in response to the letter that you wrote and they wrote back ‘in our review of the records for these four grant awards, we found...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Seventeen defendants are facing federal fraud or related charges for their alleged roles in an international ATM skimming and money laundering scheme involving hundreds of thousands of dollars. Two defendants were arrested in Sofia, Bulgaria, and 13 defendants were arrested yesterday in Chicago and several suburbs by FBI agents following a lengthy international investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Damien Gouse, 35, described at sentencing by the government as a career criminal with nearly 50 arrests who is currently serving a lengthy prison sentence in Massachusetts on felony assault charges, was sentenced by U.S District Court Judge John J. McConnell, Jr, on Tuesday to 10 years in federal for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Providence Police Chief Colonel Hugh T. Clements, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Tracy Dunn, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, announce that Richard Perrin, 80...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, March 26, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Federal Grand Jury sitting in East St. Louis, Illinois, returned a 15 count Indictment against an Effingham County doctor, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Bradley Joseph Hase, 43, of Marquette, Michigan, was sentenced to the statutory maximum of 60 months in federal prison for domestic assault by an habitual offender, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell ordered Hase to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison, and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced two senior staff changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Hot Springs, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jason Cole Votrobek and Roland Rafael Castellanos have been convicted after a month-long jury trial on federal drug and money laundering charges for owning and operating a “pill mill" pain clinic which served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers. Votrobek had previously been acquitted in Florida of similar charges stemming from his ownership of a Florida pain clinic.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 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 “The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom.".
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released opinions from 25 legal experts across the country and the political spectrum concluding that Committee Chairman Darrell Issa compromised any House contempt action against former IRS official Lois Lerner when he rushed to adjourn the Committee’s hearing on March 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging Brian Ancho, age 35, with two counts of being an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance and a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Count 1 of the indictment alleges that Ancho, an Oahu resident, possessed a Charter Arms Corporation revolver, and Count 2 alleges possession of a Beretta pistol, both on March 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: (HAGATNA, GU) ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging twelve (12) individuals as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nelson Begay, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to a receipt of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct charge. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in El Paso, Texas, and New Mexico Attorney General Gary K. King.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 26, 2014 - Today, the House of Representatives passed HR 1459, the Ensuring Public Involvement in the Creation of National Monuments Act by a bipartisan vote of 222 - 201. This bill, introduced by Public Lands and Environmental Regulation Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01), would require public participation before a presidentially-declared National Monument is made official under the Antiquities Act.
