News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: Investor Funds Diverted To Purchase ‘Panoramic View Resort & Residences’ In Montauk, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Friday, May 9, 2014, Gregory Whidden, a resident of Russell County, Alabama, pled guilty in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to a federal felony charge of failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: BRUSSELS, Belgium - Switzerland is the latest country to join the Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), an international alliance of law enforcement and private sector agencies dedicated to combating online child sexual exploitation and other forms of transnational child sexual exploitation. An official signing-in ceremony was held in Brussels Tuesday, which was attended by both the U.S. and Swiss ambassadors to the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. Communities across the United States are coming together during National Police Week - May 11th through May 17th - to honor and remember those law enforcement officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, as well as the family members, friends and fellow officers they left behind.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A McKeesport store manager pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in light of recent changes and developments.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Continuing thier efforts to protect seniors, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner expressing concerns about the health care law’s negative effects on Medicare Advantage. The committee...
By EPA Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released its latest white paper in the 21st Century Cures initiative. The paper, 21st Century Cures: An Update on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 2012 Report on Propelling Innovation, reviews the recommendations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Lawrence Higgins, 63, of Seneca Falls, N.Y., who was convicted of possession of child pornography and being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 150 months in prison and 20 years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By EPA Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Continuing thier efforts to protect seniors, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner expressing concerns about the health care law’s negative effects on Medicare Advantage. The committee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Continuing thier efforts to protect seniors, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner expressing concerns about the health care law’s negative effects on Medicare Advantage. The committee...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Dan Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), requesting information on the agency's efforts related to African elephants in Zimbabwe and Tanzania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Robert Ricardo Maldonado, 49, of Weslaco, has entered a plea of guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Maldonado was a former deputy with the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - The tenant who rented the basement of a home in Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood, and his heroin supplier, have both been charged with gun and drug crimes after selling heroin and a firearm to a person working with law enforcement. At the time of the arrests last week, law enforcement seized...
By EPA Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in light of recent changes and developments.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), Senator David Vitter (R-LA), Ranking Member of the Committee, Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), Chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, and Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), Ranking ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) in light of recent changes and developments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Noe Alvarez Ramirez, 28, of Michoacán, Mexico, was sentenced today to two years and nine months in prison, and Rudy Alberto Gonzalez Rocha, 28, and his brother, Eloy Damian Gonzalez Rocha, 32, both of Jalisco, Mexico, entered guilty pleas to being aliens in possession of firearms seized from a marijuana cultivation site, according to U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner.
