News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexander Beltran Herrera, 37, a commander of the FARC terrorist organization, pled guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to hostage-taking charges stemming from the 2003 kidnappings of three U.S. citizens in Colombia.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., applauded the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for moving forward with his initiative to increase access to hospice care for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky - A Louisville man was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell, to 27 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for sexually abusing a minor under the age of seven during the production of child pornography, today announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Darryle R. Dennison, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an aggravated sexual abuse charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Dennison will be sentenced to a prison term of 12 to 14 years followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Dennison will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The owner of bankrupt Young Oil Company pleaded guilty today, in United States District Court, to charges in three separate indictments including failure to file an income tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, mail fraud in connection with the solicitation of investor funds...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: ObamaCare, the president’s signature domestic policy achievement, turns four at the end of the week. But after so many missed deadlines, delays and unilateral changes to the new law the American people have more cause for confusion than celebration.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Representative Jared Polis (D-CO) in sending a letter signed by 195 Senators and Representatives to President Barack Obama calling...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Steven Frank Boitano was sentenced yesterday to forty-one months in prison, and ordered to pay $181,910 in restitution, for filing false tax returns for several years, and failing to file tax returns for several other years, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: The view back in time-way back to the origins of the universe-just got clearer. Much clearer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALFONSO PORTILLO, the former President of Guatemala, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to laundering millions of dollars through bank accounts located in the United States. PORTILLO, who served...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management today confirmed that a preliminary proposal to exchange private and public lands in Blaine, Fergus, and Musselshell Counties has been received from Wilks Ranch Montana, Ltd., a corporation owned by Farris and Dan Wilks. This preliminary proposal is the result of discussions...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing an AK-47 from a pawn shop.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, issued the following statement on the State Department’s decision today to expel Syrian diplomats from the United States. The State Department action comes four days after Royce and Engel introduced H. Res. 520, which calls on the Obama Administration to withdraw official recognition of the Assad regime.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Florida man who had been the straw owner of a physical therapy rehabilitation facility has been sentenced to serve 30 months in prison for his role in a $28.3 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The National Park Service has expanded the Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program to include winter residencies on an ongoing basis, and the first two participants in this winter's program will begin their residencies this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: Defendant Admits Liability And Accepts Responsibility In Consent Decree Filed Simultaneously With Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), along with Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI) released a discussion draft titled, Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore.-On Monday, March 17, 2014, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Christopher Keith Hammer, 43, of Central Point, Oregon, to 37 years in federal prison for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Quentin Scott Veneno, 27, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on a domestic assault by a habitual offender charge. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Police Chief Kendall P. Vicenti of the Jicarilla Apache Tribal Police Department.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding Russia’s annexation of Crimea and seizure of the Ukrainian Navy headquarters.
