News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 234 months in prison for his role in three armed carjackings that occurred in a one-week span in three counties across northern New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act, to require the Obama administration to pause on any changes regarding the future of the Internet and allow for an independent evaluation. The legislation, authored...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, by a bipartisan vote of 31 to 19. Authored by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), the legislation would modernize and reform the approval...
By EPA Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, by a bipartisan vote of 31 to 19. Authored by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), the legislation would modernize and reform the approval...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on trade and Social Security Advisory Board nominations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh woman pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Federal Employees’ Compensation Fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) heard from public and private industry experts on the critical factors that lead to the successful acquisition of information technology (IT) investments. For years, the federal government has struggled...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Springfield, Ill. B Today, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Edward Dorsey Sr., 42, of St. Anne, Illinois, with three counts of distributing cocaine base (“crack") in violation of federal law. Additionally, the United States Probation Office for the Central District of Illinois previously...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man made his initial court appearance today on charges that he sexually exploited two prepubescent girls after allegedly photographing himself abusing the girls, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The Defendants Promised To Buy Precious Metals For Investors, But Instead Stole Investor Funds And Fled To Morocco.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Admits Willful Injury to Property of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former postal worker was sentenced today for stealing more than 200 video games from the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - A federal grand jury returned a nine-count Thursday charging a West Michigan man with producing and possessing child pornography. The alleges that Travis Stiehl, 22, produced sexually explicit photographs and videos of children as young as two years old on eight different occasions from September 2011 to August 2013. The indictment also charges Stiehl with possession of approximately 2,000 images of child pornography on a hard drive.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: (PHOENIX)- - Today, Douglas W. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), announced that over 12,000 pounds of prescription medications were collected during the eighth Prescription Drug Take Back Event. When added to the collections of previous Take Back events, DEA and its state, local and tribal law enforcement partners have removed an excess of 70,800 (35 tons) of medications from circulation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA- Late last night, a federal jury returned verdicts finding Donald Terry Dubose, a/k/a “Terry Dubose," 66, of Panama City Beach, Florida, Elwood Ladon West, a/k/a “Woody West," 40, of Monroeville, Alabama, and Frank Alfred Baker, 62, of Marianna, Florida, guilty of conspiring to commit...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger will meet with county attorneys and law enforcement officials from the central and north central regions of the state on Tuesday, May 13, 2014 in St. Cloud to discuss federal law enforcement priorities and opportunities for local, state, and federal law enforcement to work together.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Bolingbrook man was indicted on federal charges alleging that he violated U.S. export laws by attempting to ship a thermal imaging camera from his company in Schaumburg to a company in Pakistan without obtaining a license from the U.S. Commerce Department, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By State Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that Friday morning the Committee will consider H.Res. 573, legislation that condemns Boko Haram’s abduction of female students in Nigeria.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - John Robinson, age 34, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to robbery and using a gun in furtherance of the robbery.
