News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Sapulpa man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. for the Northern District of Oklahoma. A total of at least 20,116 images and videos were found in the defendant’s possession.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Ways and Means Committee Republican Members sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner asking CMS to halt the proposed rule changes to Medicare Part D prescription drug plans. The proposed rule uses a false interpretation as to the non-interference clause between the federal government and the development and delivery of prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio, 58-year-old Antonio Pena-Arguelles, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a money laundering conspiracy announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BEVERLY SUSAN RENE SMITH was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges involving her alleged theft of approximately $176,000 from Million-Taylor Funeral Home. These funds were intended to cover customer’s funeral expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment against Richard A. Brennan, age 42, of Clarksburg, Maryland, which added charges of conspiracy, mail, wire and telemarketing fraud, and filing false tax returns, to the several gun charges contained in the original indictment. The original indictment was returned under seal on March 5, 2012, and was unsealed on March 12, 2014, upon Brennan’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. today sentenced Braden Koegel (35, Apopka) to three years and six months in federal prison for bank fraud. Koegel pleaded guilty on Nov. 21, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- In a letter to U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined a group of four other senators in urging the department to prohibit the sale of tobacco products at naval bases and aboard...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
Release: “Wayo-settchu" is a Japanese concept, roughly meaning “a blending of Japanese and Western styles." This idea can be applied to everything from fashion and architecture to music and cuisine. On Feb. 22, 2014, the U.S. Agricultural Trade Office (ATO) in Tokyo hosted a food tasting that paired U.S. beef with Niigata sake.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today announced the removal of the island night lizard (Xantusia riversiana), a soft-skinned lizard found on three Channel Islands off the southern California coast, from the protection of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The lizard's recovery is due primarily to the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Steven Ray Williams, age 43, of Frederick, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for three armed robberies and for brandishing a gun during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Armitdeep Mann, 33, a Toronto resident and a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa issued the following statement responding to the Arizona State Bar’s reprimand of former Obama Administration political appointee Dennis Burke, who served as the U.S. Attorney for Arizona during Operation Fast and Furious.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Announcement by Chairman Dave Camp. March 31, 2014 - Press Releases. Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement: “Today, I am announcing that I will not seek re-election to the United States House of Representatives. This decision was reached after much...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Ottawa woman was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison for peddling prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that John Acosta-Bermudez, a Columbian citizen who has landed immigrant status in Canada, appeared today in United States District Court in Burlington on a charge that he reentered the United States after having been deported. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy ordered that the defendant be detained pending his next hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today affirmed the convictions and sentence of former Hillsborough County Commissioner Kevin White for his role in a bribery scheme. White had been convicted after a jury trial of bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit both fraud and bribery. In March 2012, he was sentenced to a total of three years’ imprisonment.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sens. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), today called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the National Park Service’s administrative structure and spending habits in an effort to save the taxpayer money.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against De Bruyn Produce Co.
