News from November 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Dear Postmaster General Donahoe: I am writing to request additional information about the cyber-attack announced publicly today by the Postal Service. First, I would like to thank you for the two fulsome briefings that were provided by Postal Service officials to our Committee staff on October 22 and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: L. Brian Whitfield, 49, formerly of Franklin, Tennessee, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday, after an eight-day trial, of 14 fraud-related counts, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The jury found Whitfield guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud, theft from an employee benefit program, filing a false tax return, and money laundering.
By State Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, published the following op-ed today in Roll Call on President Obama's trip to Burma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: A Brunswick man was sentenced to more than nine years in prison for illegally receiving more than $3 million from the St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union in exchange for cash payments to the credit union’s chief operating officer, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent-in- Charge for the Minneapolis Division Richard T. Thornton today announced charges filed against MOHAMED ALI OMAR, 21, for knowingly and intentionally threatening a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: A naturalized U.S. citizen was convicted of immigration fraud today for failing to disclose that she had been convicted of participating in a terrorist bombing, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Distribution of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: In a continued effort to raise awareness on the importance of jury service, Chief Judge Gerald E. Rosen, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, Chief Federal Defender Miriam L. Siefer, State Representative Rashida Tlaib and Detroit City Council Member Raquel Castaneda-Lopezannounced today a community forum that will focus on the racial and ethnic diversity of juries and the importance of jury service.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and House Oversight Committee Subcommittee on Postal Service Chairman Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, today released the following statement in response to the United States Postal Service’s announcement that the Chinese purportedly hacked the agency’s data...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Maurice Weaver, age 38, a federal inmate, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann to 24 months imprisonment and three years’ supervised release. His sentence is to run consecutive to any other sentence being served by Weaver.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Mercer County resident has been sentenced in federal court to one day in the custody of the United States Marshal’s Service, followed by 12 years supervised release, the first 14 months of which is to be served in home confinement, with electronic monitoring, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) announced a joint full committee hearing, “Abuse of USPTO’s Telework Program: Ensuring Oversight, Accountability and Quality."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen Livermont announces that America’s 401 national parks will offer free admission on nine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today issued the following statement following the announcement that the Department of Health and Services is lowering their projected ObamaCare enrollment numbers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child was sentenced on Nov. 3, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - More than seven years after Congress required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to set up a network of state and local fusion centers to combat international and homegrown terrorist threats, the Department has failed both to measure their performance or whether they are working, or to track the millions of dollars they receive in federal grants, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Joseph Lewis, age 53, of Forestville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to impersonating a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Gustavo Angel Salinas, 26, of Bakersfield, today to 21 months in prison for conspiring to violate federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
