News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Dale Wray Fulford, 77, of Slaton, Texas, appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography. He faces a statutory penalty of not less than 15 years or more than 30 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: TRENTON - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that six alleged members of a drug ring were indicted today on first-degree charges for allegedly operating a heroin mill and distributing...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), one of the authors of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), today commemorated the anniversary of the law’s enactment by urging Iowans to enroll in quality, comprehensive health insurance coverage for 2014 before March 31.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Michael Rivers (56, Windermere) yesterday pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, eight counts of wire fraud, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, eight counts of money laundering, and three...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of March 24, 2014. The committee will consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, review H.R. 6, a bill to expedite exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our allies, and discuss the shortage of dedicated psychiatric beds available to treat patients suffering from serious mental illnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Steve Wysocki, 50, of Newark, N.Y., who was convicted of filing false statements with the United States Government, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. The defendant was also ordered to pay $299,000 in restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah State Office has renewed a Memorandum of Understanding with Disabled Sports USA that will allow wounded military veterans to participate in several multi-day river trips on the Colorado, Green, and San Juan rivers over the next five years. Disabled Sports USA...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: DENVER -Cheston Jermone Foster (aka Rome or Romeo), age 30, of Denver, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before Senior U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to postal robbery and violation of his supervised release from an earlier criminal matter, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Denver U.S. Postal Inspector...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BERNARD McALLISTER, 43, of Lisbon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release for stealing and possessing numerous firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Ana Laure Topete Ramirez, 33, an illegal immigrant living in Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to a term of 92 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Ramirez previously pled guilty to distributing methamphetamine into the Brusha Community of Scott County, Mississippi.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of March 24, 2014. The committee will consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act, review H.R. 6, a bill to expedite exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to our allies, and discuss the shortage of dedicated psychiatric beds available to treat patients suffering from serious mental illnesses.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Crater Lake, OR - Crater Lake National Park invites your participation in public scoping for the forthcoming Crater Lake National Park Trail Management Plan (TMP).
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee special panel focusing on public-private partnerships (P3s) will hold a roundtable policy discussion next week on P3s and water supply and treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Peter V. Capra, age 56, of Littleton, Colorado, was found guilty by a jury today of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering, federal law enforcement authorities announced. The guilty verdict was the result of a 8 day trial before U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson. The jury deliberated...
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced legislation to promote Ukraine’s sovereignty and democratic institutions while sanctioning those who have sought to...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement ahead of the two-year anniversary of President Obama's statement supporting the Keystone XL pipeline's southern leg, promising to "cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles, and make [Keystone] a priority, to go ahead and get it done."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being signed into law...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following statements recognizing the fourth anniversary of President Obama’s health care law...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced John Frank Jenkins, age 30, of College Park, Maryland, today to 121 months in prison, followed by 14 months of home detention as part of three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute ...
