News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Robert Lamar Starling (29, Lake City) has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with producing child pornography. If convicted, Starling faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss. -- Local businessman and former Hattiesburg Fire Chief T.L. Pittman, Jr., 82, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to a kickback scheme which defrauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen and Special Agent in Charge Mary L. Lewis of USDA Office of Inspector General.
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today called on the federal government to partner with the private sector and academia to support research to improve the efficient use of energy and water in the production and use of both critical resources.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ronald Cleveland, a/k/a Pretty Tony, a/k/a P.T., a/k/a Success, a/k/a Cess, 44 of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, a fine of $8,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Department of Justice announced today that Abdelkader and Hnia Amal pleaded guilty to one count of alien harboring in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. The guilty plea stemmed from evidence that Abdelkader and Hnia Amal unlawfully brought a woman into the United States from Morocco and then kept the woman in their home as a domestic servant for three years.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement ahead of Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, “PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry." The subcommittee tomorrow will hear from some of the nation’s largest insurance providers and their trade groups on the status of the implementation of the president’s health care law and detailed enrollment information compiled by the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jason Thomas Dreyer, 31, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Dreyer pleaded guilty to the charge Dec. 5, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement ahead of Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, “PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry." The subcommittee tomorrow will hear from some of the nation’s largest insurance providers and their trade groups on the status of the implementation of the president’s health care law and detailed enrollment information compiled by the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A previously convicted sex offender, living in Allen County, Kentucky was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a life term of Supervised Release, on Thursday, May 1, 2014, by Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell, for violating federal child pornography laws, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. There is no parole in the federal system.
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement ahead of Wednesday’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing, “PPACA Enrollment and the Insurance Industry." The subcommittee tomorrow will hear from some of the nation’s largest insurance providers and their trade groups on the status of the implementation of the president’s health care law and detailed enrollment information compiled by the committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Eric Jacobson, a Great Neck, New York, physician, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, to 19 counts of the illegal distribution of the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone. When sentenced, Jacobson faces up to nine years in prison. The defendant previously relinquished his license to practice medicine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kenneth M. Delashmutt, 70, of North Providence, R.I., faces up to 10 years in federal prison when he is sentenced in July, having being convicted today by a federal court jury in Providence of threatening to assault and murder two Internal Revenue Service agents, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Robert E. O’Malley, Special Agent in Charge, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, New York Field Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called during a hearing today for a sustainable fix to the Highway Trust Fund, which faces insolvency before the end of this fiscal year. Wyden also said Congress needs to explore innovative solutions to bring more private capital investment to infrastructure projects.
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Commerce (113th Congress) . On Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at 3 PM, the committee will host thought leaders in the first public discussion regarding the state of biomedical innovation in the United States and what else can be done to accelerate the process of bringing new treatments...
By DOE Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued the following response to the administration’s release of the latest climate assessment report...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man admitted today to participating in five armed robberies of electronics stores, including an armed robbery in Linden, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Commerce (113th Congress) . On Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at 3 PM, the committee will host thought leaders in the first public discussion regarding the state of biomedical innovation in the United States and what else can be done to accelerate the process of bringing new treatments...
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Lakewood, N.J., man today admitted conspiring to kidnap a Jewish man to force him to give his wife a religious divorce, known as a “get," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Shawn H. Spencer, 33, of Virginia Beach, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manufacture, distribute, and possess controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | May 6, 2014
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 6, 2014, Clayton L. Lakey, 34, Billings, Mont., pleaded guilty and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of coercion and enticement of a minor.
