News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Joseph Franklin Ellis has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for traveling from Alabama to Georgia to meet an undercover agent who said that he had 12-year-old and 5-year-old boys available for sex.
By EPA Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: The House Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a markup this week to consider H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, and legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism...
By Commerce Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the following statement in response to Speaker Boehner’s announcement that Oversight Committee member Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., will chair the House select committee to investigate the attacks in Benghazi...
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble is pleased to announce that Mark Dowdle will be joining the park's management team as the new Deputy Superintendent for the National Park Service (NPS) Outer Banks Group.The Outer Banks Group includes Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Wright Brothers National Memorial, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site in.
By US DOT Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR), sent a letter to Robert Brenner, former senior official at the Environmental Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distributing heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Arthur Lee Clark, age 41, of Sumner, Georgia; Demitri Jackson, age 37; Tedrick Jackson, age 38; William Burns, age 41; Otha Hopkins, age 47, all of Albany, Georgia; Timothy Hopkins, age 41, of Hiram, Georgia; and Michael Bass, age 40, of Ashburn, Georgia...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy and Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced that five individuals appeared in federal court today who had been arrested on warrants executed during a joint federal/state multi-agency operation in Virginia and Kentucky on Saturday morning. The following individuals appeared in federal court today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A man who left pipe bombs in a residential neighborhood in Palm Springs near the residence of an ex-girlfriend - and who became a fugitive after escaping from custody in a related case - pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of possession of an unregistered destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: United States Senators Tom Harkin and Chuck Grassley were on hand today at an investiture ceremony honoring Kevin W. Techau as the new U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa. The ceremony took place shortly after noon at the federal courthouse in Cedar Rapids.
By USDA Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is seeking applications from rural small businesses and agricultural producers for funding to make energy efficiency improvements or to install renewable energy systems.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Pills, heroin, marijuana, cash, and firearm seized from defendant’s home.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Convicted Ponzi schemer Eliyahu Weinstein, 38, of Lakewood, N.J., was arraigned today in federal court in Trenton on new charges relating to an alleged scheme to defraud victims regarding purported investments in Facebook stock and Florida real estate, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man involved in a heroin distribution scheme was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Bobby Nelson Gulley, 38, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin. Gulley admitted that he conspired with others, including Helen Louise Adkins and Alanna Lynn Mattison, to distribute heroin in the Huntington area from at least January 2013 to Aug. 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former president of a Middlesex County, N.J., investment company today admitted he defrauded investors out of more than $250,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Today, the United States charged two men for their participation in a conspiracy to hack into the computer systems of over 30 public and private organizations, including the United States Navy and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, announced Northern District of Oklahoma United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Searcy County resident Wilson Taylor left early Friday morning for a turkey hunt along the Buffalo River near Baker Ford but did not return by nightfall and was reported overdue by family members early Saturday morning. Buffalo National River Search & Rescue coordinated with Searcy County to initiate...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Leopoldo “Polo" Rodriguez, 42, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute, marijuana, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Lengthening days, milder overnight temperatures, sightings of migrant bird species, and the arrival of summer employees are all signs that the seasonal facilities and services that enhance the park experience for Denali National Park and Preserve visitors will open soon.
By State Newswire | May 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement in response to today’s report by Human Rights Watch documenting the unlawful use of force by Venezuelan security forces against innocent civilians and antigovernment demonstrators.
