News from May 2014
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 19. The committee will hear from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, continue its efforts on 21st Century Cures, discuss legislation to promote new manufacturing, examine ways to modernize and reform Medicare payment structures, and review draft legislation to protect businesses from abusive patent demand letters.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - John Wendell Boyles, 51, of Gulfport, and his son, Nicholas Alan Boyles, 24, also of Gulfport, were arraigned in federal court on May 15th pursuant to an indictment charging them with conspiracy to convert Postal Service property to their own use and unlawfully sell the property over a two-year period, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, and Inspector-in-Charge Robert B. Wemyss, of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Kyle Alifom, 20, of Vienna, Va., was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for tampering with evidence by hiding the body of Emylee Lonczak, a 16-year-old girl from McLean, Va. who died after a heroin overdose.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Department of Transportation’s announcement that General Motors has agreed to pay a record $35 million civil penalty for failure to report the ignition switch safety defect to the government in a timely manner.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury returned a verdict today finding Tillman Naskia Begaye, 33, guilty on three counts of second degree murder after a five day trial, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division, and Director John Billison of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Kelvin Robinson, 46, of Bolton, Mississippi, was sentenced in U.S. District Court on May 15, 2014 to 172 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute over 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, and 120 months in prison for money laundering, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: This year, September 24 marks the 100th anniversary of the very first Trans-Pacific wireless radio transmission. This milestone took place in 1914 at the Marconi-built radio stations in Bolinas and Marshall, in Marin County, California. The mayors of both San Francisco and Honolulu were present at the...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released its latest white paper in the 21st Century Cures initiative. The paper reviews the glaring gap between the number of diseases and the number of treatments. At the inaugural roundtable for 21st Century Cures, Margaret Anderson, the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that WILLIAM CALI was sentenced in Manhattan federal court in connection with his role in a scheme to exert control over the commercial waste-hauling industry in the greater New York City metropolitan area...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Arvel Crawford, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 75 years in prison on first-degree murder, second-degree murder, and related weapons charges for the slayings of two people in 2008, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 19. The committee will hear from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, continue its efforts on 21st Century Cures, discuss legislation to promote new manufacturing, examine ways to modernize and reform Medicare payment structures, and review draft legislation to protect businesses from abusive patent demand letters.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released its latest white paper in the 21st Century Cures initiative. The paper reviews the glaring gap between the number of diseases and the number of treatments. At the inaugural roundtable for 21st Century Cures, Margaret Anderson, the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 15, 2014, Newberry Winfield Wright, a 22 year-old resident of Oakland, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James Gritzner to 36 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release after the term of imprisonment, for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of May 19. The committee will hear from FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, continue its efforts on 21st Century Cures, discuss legislation to promote new manufacturing, examine ways to modernize and reform Medicare payment structures, and review draft legislation to protect businesses from abusive patent demand letters.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Step back in time with a visit to a historic Great Lakes village and United States Life-Saving Station during Glen Haven Days at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) on Saturday, May 24, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Join park rangers and volunteers in hands-on activities related...
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Contact: Jennifer Anzelmo-Sarles, National Park Service, 202-619-7400.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: A Grosse Ile businessman was sentenced today after being convicted at trial of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud and Wire Fraud, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced Tory Lenard James (32, Sarasota) to ten years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. James was found guilty by a federal jury on Feb. 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Brandon Cory Boshears, 30, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 57 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in February 2014 to one count of possession of child pornography. Boshears will surrender to federal custody on a date to be designated. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
