News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced the indictment by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg and arrests of three men for distributing crack cocaine, heroin and cocaine in York, Pennsylvania over a seven month period in 2013 and 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -David E. Warren, 27, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of first-degree felony murder while armed and other charges for the 2011 killing of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney's Office announced that it filed an.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - EVELYN SILAS, Florissant, MO, was sentenced to 15 months in prison on 13 counts of tax and fraud charges today by United States District Judge Catherine Perry.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On March 21, 2014, Charles L. Scott, a/k/a “Boomer, 43, of Elkville, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ROBERT POYNTER was indicted for his alleged scheme to assist buyers in obtaining mortgages based on false information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Marc Walker, 53, of Amherst, N.Y., who was convicted of filing a false claim against the United States, was sentenced to two years probation by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $23,694.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: A former resident of Lake Orion was sentenced to a year in prison yesterday for income tax evasion, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tracy York White, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to making threats against the President of the United States under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - U. S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Celeste Smith, 38, of Statham, Georgia, as well as Jessica Wise, 28, Antwan Byrd, 30, and Jerry Cooper, 64, of Athens, Georgia, were charged, on March 12, 2014, in United States District Court in Macon, in multiple-count indictments of illegally acquiring thousands of Schedule II, III, and IV, prescription pills, such as Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, and (Xanax).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that LARRY EUGENE PIRPICH, JR., age 53, of McAlester was sentenced to 188 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Conspiracy to Possess and Distribute Pseudoephedrine...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Special agents from the Central Valley Marijuana Investigation Team (CVMIT), a California Department of Justice Task Force and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Initiative (HIDTA), teamed with federal investigators Thursday night to seize 176 pounds of crystal methamphetamine during the execution of a search warrant at a Madera home, one of the largest caches of the drug recently uncovered in the local area.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MEXICO CITY— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today wrapped up a two-day trip to Mexico where he met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and senior Mexican officials to discuss the ongoing partnership and cooperation between ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new funding opportunities for state agencies and Indian tribal organizations to develop innovative strategies to prevent hunger and food insecurity. The demonstration projects under the new initiative are designed to find solutions so that no child goes hungry.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 20, 2014 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced new figures today that show the organic industry continues to grow domestically and globally, with over 25,000 certified organic operations in more than 120 different countries around the world.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 20, 2014 - The U. S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service today announced the availability of up to $5 million in competitive grants to help fund projects that lead to greater efficiencies and improved outcomes of Employment and Training (E&T) services supported ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Flint Hills Resources of Port Arthur has agreed to implement innovative technologies to control harmful air pollution from industrial flares and leaking equipment at the company’s chemical plant in Port ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: A federal jury convicted Jean Claude Roy, aka Dredd the Don and Dreddy, age 31, of Germantown, Md., late yesterday of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, three counts of interstate transportation for prostitution and witness and evidence tampering. The verdict was announced ...
