News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - An illegal alien pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with a conspiracy to produce false identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed yesterday charging four people, including a Philadelphia Police Department (“PPD") dispatcher, in a conspiracy to give an unfair advantage to certain tow truck operators in exchange for bribes, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Dorian Parsley...
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, which called for efficiency standards that cut carbon pollution and save money by saving energy, the Energy Department today announced two new energy efficiency standards for electric motors and walk-in coolers and freezers. These standards...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rayshawn Clark, 25, and Dwayne Hilton, 22, both of Washington, D.C., were sentenced today to prison terms of 31 years and 25 years, respectively, for carrying out three separate armed robberies on the same night, as well as a carjacking of one of the victims, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: Port Alsworth, Alaska - Conditions are extremely dry in the Lake Clark and Iliamna Lake region and expected to stay that way through next week. With these dry conditions any new fires that start will spread quickly. Please use caution with campfires, off-road vehicles, recreational activities, and anything...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Chad Bennet Brown, age 34, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, on May 8, 2014, to 10 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: Philadelphia - Fifth grade students at Spring Garden Elementary School will get a chance this spring to study with the National Park Service, learning the roles of Park Rangers and Park Volunteers.In a special event, new this year, these students will help distribute free books to all the students at their school.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: MIAMI - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security (ICE-HSI), Miami...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Jermaine Eric Gibson has been convicted by a federal jury of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, in connection with his illegal occupation of a foreclosed property as a “sovereign citizen.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two California men were charged yesterday for their involvement in a microcap stock kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former manager of a Wichita massage parlor pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge of transporting a woman from China to work as prostitute in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOL Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 10) with strong bipartisan support in a vote of 360 to 45. Introduced by House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senior Democratic Member George Miller (D-CA), the legislation supports state efforts to start, expand, and replicate high-performing charter schools.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: One Defendant Burglarized Store, Others Sold Or Traded Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: A convicted felon who was found in possession of two stolen handguns was sentenced today to more than five years in federal prison. Michael Rohrick, age 28, from Oelwein, Iowa, received the prison term after a Feb. 24, 2014, guilty plea to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: PIKEVILLE - The former Mayor of Martin, Ky., has been convicted of intentionally violating voters’ civil rights, during her reelection campaign in 2012.
By State Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement about China’s dispute with Vietnam in the South China Sea...
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement on the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement that they posted a net-loss of $1.9 billion this quarter...
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department today announced over $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing nuclear science and engineering degrees. The awards include 42 undergraduate scholarships and 33 graduate-level fellowships for students studying at U.S. colleges and universities.
