News from May 2014
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s record of bipartisan success, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved two bills, H.R. 316 and H.R. 724, as part of the committee’s effort to advance an “all-of-the-above" energy approach and effort to modernize government and clear burdensome red tape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sosefina Amoa, 26, formerly of Samoa, was sentenced today to four years in prison on a charge of voluntary manslaughter stemming from the death of her infant son at a convent in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Ellsworth Air Force Base man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Quamain Jacks, 23, of Hyattsville, Md., was sentenced today to a nine-year prison term on charges stemming from an attack in January 2013 against a woman near a Metro station in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today welcomed the Interior Department’s proposed schedule for revising its environmental review of drilling leases in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea to resolve challenges from environmental groups.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of May 26. The committee will vote on several bipartisan bills to improve the nation’s public health system, review legislation aimed at promoting America’s manufacturing renaissance, and conduct oversight of the Department of Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on May 22, 2014, a federal jury found GARY JOSEPH CONTI, 68, of Three Forks, guilty on 26 of 27 felony charges relating to his role in deceiving the government in an "in-kind" scheme that auditors have determined resulted in at least $4.6 million in fraud against a grant designed to help troubled and at-risk youth on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Adrian Tino Guerrero, 28, of Slaton, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to188 months in federal prison, to be followed by a 20-year term of supervised release. Guerrero pleaded guilty in February 2014 to one count of receipt of child pornography and has been in custody since his arrest in November 2013 on a related charge. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Indianapolis woman sentenced to 16 months in prison for her role.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Carlos Contreras, 33, and his wife Ana Rosa Contreras, 31, have entered guilty pleas in relation to a massive drug trafficking and money laundering case involving members of the Texas Mexican Mafia prison gang, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA - Nevada Powell, 33, pled not guilty yesterday before a Federal Magistrate Judge on to charges of Armed Bank Robbery, Brandishing a Firearm During a Crime of Violence, and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person. Powell was indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah earlier...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC-(ENEWSPF)-May 23, 2014. Kenneth Gaddie, aka K.G., 24, of Nashville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy in federal court in Nashville, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General David A. O’Neil of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Shannon Ray Smithers, 33, of Lake Charles, was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi, to 120 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing child pornography. He is also required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced that Alfonso Portillo, the former president of Guatemala, was sentenced today in Manhattan...
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: A walk in the woods has measurable benefits for brain and body! Try a hike with a trained yogi (not the bear type) at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument. Many hikers suffer from tight hamstrings, calf and quad muscles, while many yoga practitioners could use more aerobic conditioning. These hikes will help with both.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s record of bipartisan success, the U.S. Senate yesterday approved two bills, H.R. 316 and H.R. 724, as part of the committee’s effort to advance an “all-of-the-above" energy approach and effort to modernize government and clear burdensome red tape.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2014
News Release: Angel Diaz-Hernandez, 27, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on May 19, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Diaz-Hernandez was arrested in Jackson, Wyoming. He received time served, plus 10 days, was ordered to pay a...
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, held a press conference to release a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the ongoing risk of improper prescribing of psychotropic drugs to America’s foster children.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. May 22: Live Webcast on Genetically Modified Algae. Webinar Sponsor: Bioenergy Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webcast titled “Genetically Modified Algae: A Risk-Benefit Assessment" today from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. During the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Christopher Paul Benoit, 34, of Jennings, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to unlawfully import and possess with the intent to distribute anabolic steroids. He was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
