News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging six men with narcotics trafficking offenses, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division and Commander Byron Wester of the Lea County Drug Task Force (LCDTF).
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - The former owner of a Wichita massage parlor pleaded guilty Thursday to harboring an undocumented Chinese woman and threatening to harm a law enforcement officer, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) today introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (IVAWA), bipartisan legislation that would make reducing the levels of violence against women and girls across the globe a top diplomatic priority for the United States.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Dear Commissioner Hamburg: We write to bring to your attention two new studies, recently reported in The New York Times, describing the harmful chemicals, including formaldehyde, that are sometimes released in the plume of vapor from certain high powered e-cigarettes. As you review comments submitted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL-- The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown announces that Roderick O=Neil McMillian was sentenced today to forty three months imprisonment and an eight year term of supervised release for possession with the intent to distribute crack cocaine in violation of Title 21 USC '841(a)(1). McMillian...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) issued the following statement on the U.S. House of Representatives vote to establish the Select Committee on the Events Surrounding Benghazi headed by Oversight Committee member Trey Gowdy (R-SC).
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to build strong and prosperous tribal communities and the Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, Secretary of the Interior (DOI) Sally Jewell announced on May 7, 2014, the approval of the 200-megawatt Moapa Solar Energy Center Project on tribal trust land in Nevada and that nine federally recognized tribes have been awarded Tribal Energy Development Capacity grants totaling over $700,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Adoshia L. Flythe, 36, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud following an undercover investigation into the sale of counterfeit health certificates to people seeking jobs in the home health care industry.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today awarded 19 advanced manufacturing technology planning grants totaling $9 million to new or existing industry-driven consortia to develop technology roadmaps aimed at strengthening U.S. manufacturing and innovation performance across industries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Yesterday, May 7, a Federal grand jury returned a 175 count-indictment against Elba I. Bonilla-Bayón for theft of government property, concealment of bankruptcy assets, student assistance program fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The defendant is facing a forfeiture allegation of $1,429,873.00.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to the Republican resolution to establish a new “select committee" to investigate the attacks in Benghazi.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Starting Monday, May 12, a temporary area closure will be in effect for several south Jenny Lake locations within Grand Teton National Park. The temporary public closures are necessary to ensure public safety during construction activities involving helicopter-assisted transport of heavy material to trail locations on the west side of Jenny Lake. These public closures will last from May 12 through May 19, and possibly longer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, AR - Christopher R. Thyer, Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced that Shane Padilla, age 30, of Jacksonville, a Captain in the United States Air Force, was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday, May 7, 2014,on one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Bryan S. Everly, 20, of Gillette, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on May 8, 2014, for conspiracy to possess stolen firearms. Everly was arrested in Gillette, Wyoming. He received 54 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $200.00 fine and a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mitch Merritt -, 30, of Rochester, New Hampshire and Scott Woodman -, 29, of Farmington, New Hampshire were sentenced today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mark Jeff Zeldes, 52, of Broomfield, Colo., appeared in federal court today in Fresno to face charges contained in an indictment of cultivating and distributing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Keith Miller, 44, of Lyndonville, Vermont was sentenced on May 5, 2014 for possession of child pornography. Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Miller to 21 months in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: This case was investigated by the United States Drug Enforcement Administration; the.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Stevens-Henager College, Inc. and its owner, The Center for Excellence in Higher Education, for illegally compensating recruiters, the Department of Justice announced today. Stevens-Henager operates a chain of for-profit colleges in Idaho and Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that TODD ALLEN SCHMIDT, 50, of Great Falls, was sentenced to 96 months in prison, to be followed by four years of supervised release, during a federal court session in Helena on May 7, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon. Schmidt was sentenced in connection with his January 2014 guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
