News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that Warren T. Wells, age 43, of Moscow, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik today in Scranton to two years of probation, to include six months of home confinement. Wells...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Antwan Castleberry, 32, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 101 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Donald Ray Babb (58, Merritt Island) and Ralph Victor Ruth (61, Melbourne) have pleaded guilty to an Information charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiracy, making counterfeit currency and passing counterfeit money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to President Obama’s announcement that he had struck a deal with Chinese President Xi Jinping to reduce carbon emissions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Ranking Member John Thune (R-SD) today led Republicans on their respective committees in writing to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The House will vote tomorrow on a bill, H.R. 5682, authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) that would immediately authorize construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - A 22-year-old Austrian fugitive captured in Portland was deported Thursday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and turned over to Austrian police to face homicide charges in the stabbing death of his mother.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 12, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today on the Obama Administration’s listing of the Gunnison Sage-Grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Shannon Murray, 42, of Charleston, West Virginia was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to one year and one day in federal prison. Murray previously pled guilty in August of 2014 admitting that he sold oxycodone pills...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 12, 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 announced that the Communications and Technology Subcommittee will hold a hearing on FCC oversight, and specifically the commission’s consideration of Net Neutrality rules, on Wednesday, December 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jennifer Miller, 26, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement regarding the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) decision to list the Gunnison sage grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). In addition to the threatened ...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Ranking Member John Thune (R-SD) today led Republicans on their respective committees in writing to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: A beach hazards statement for sneaker waves and rip currents has been issued for areas along the coast including Point Reyes National Seashore. A storm in the Bering Sea has generated long period swells which have entered coastal waters. These conditions will be in effect through Thursday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: A former Director of Nursing was sentenced to serve 57 months in prison today for his participation in a $7 million health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Anna Nursing Services Corp. (Anna Nursing).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - A former Ohio attorney and lobbyist was sentenced today for his role in a bribery and money laundering scheme involving the Ohio Treasurer’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska B U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Tulsa, Oklahoma, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for one count of Escape.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Steven Paul Tharpe, 51, a member and resident of the Laguna Pueblo, was sentenced this morning to 24 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his attempted robbery conviction.
