News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owners and operators of a Kansas City, Mo., firm that promised to help financially-strapped clients get out of debt have pleaded guilty to defrauding their clients.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. COVINGTON, Ky. - On May 29, 2014, U.S. District Judge Amul Thapar sentenced 34-year-old Nicholas Sandlin to 151 months in prison and placed him on supervised release for life, after he completes his prison term. Sandlin admitted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, Conner Eldridge announced that eleven individuals have been sentenced to a combined total of over 93 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming...
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Pinson Mounds: Middle Woodland Ceremonialism in the Midsouth.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Rangers at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be conducting free ranger-led programs almost every day this summer. The programs started Memorial Day weekend and will continue through Labor Day, and all you have to do to join is show up.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the commission’s work on the spectrum provisions included in the Middle...
By US DOT Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the statement below after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal opinion finding that President Obama's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants are not reviewable by Congress under the Congressional Review Act until the rulemaking process has been completed.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - An East Boston man was sentenced today for robbing three Citizens Bank locations.
By EPA Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved a discussion draft of the Promoting New Manufacturing Act by a bipartisan vote of 14 to 8. As a key component of the committee’s effort to build the Architecture of Abundance, this legislation takes...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Today, Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) joined with Congressman George Holding (R-N.C.) in introducing new legislation to ensure satellite and Internet radio services pay royalties they owe to legendary musicians and artists. Digital radio services today claim ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
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By Homeland Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BANGKOK - Whether it's targeting the unlawful smuggling and trading in fish bladders, rhino horns, turtles and tortoises, black coral or other protected species on the verge of extinction, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is committed to conducting wildlife trafficking investigations to stem the illegal trade in specimens of wild animals and plants that threatens their survival.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Oversight and Investigations (113th Congress) . Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, will hold a briefing on Thursday, May 29, to highlight the committee’s recent report on its investigation of federal programs addressing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Alleged Crimes Involved Two For-Profit Schools And Hundreds Of Students.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: In Austin today, FBI agents arrested 25-year-old Gabriel Soza Ruedas, Jr., for allegedly pointing a laser at an aircraft flying overhead announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that RICHARD ARMBRE WILLIAMS, age 42, of Columbia, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that MARQUEL DAVON FOSTER, age 23, of Columbia, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea to making a false statement in the acquisition of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, in violation of Title 18, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Derrick Miller, former Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Detroit, was sentenced today to 12 months in a halfway house for corruption and tax offenses, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: National Park Service Outer Banks Group Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today the reopening of Ramp 43 to Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) and pedestrian access.Park staff first observed the hatching of piping plover chicks on the morning of May 23. For the past three days no piping plover chicks have...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Glenn Isaac Garcia, 25, of Tijeras, N.M., was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Garcia was convicted of this offense based on a guilty plea entered on Dec. 3, 2013
