News from November 2014
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) issued the following statement as negotiators attempt to reach a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program by November 24th. This week’s talks in Vienna will attempt to finalize the agreement that was outlined by the interim “joint plan of action" signed a year ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Mervin Edy Wolf, age 62, of Englewood, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 720 months (60 years) in federal prison for production of child pornography, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RYAN HARDING, 29, of Woodstock, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: DENVER - On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, joined by five members of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council, as well as representatives from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, local social workers, health services, victim advocates, Federal Probation, the Federal Public Defender’s Office and a U.S. Magistrate...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: CMS Caught Adding Nearly 400,000 Dental Plans in Sept. Announcement to Obscure Enrollment Decline
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Kevino Graham, 33, Brian Wright, 38, and Renato Teixeira, 24, of Philadelphia, PA were charged by indictment, unsealed today, with two counts of sex trafficking by force, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office has released a draft environmental assessment analyzing the impacts of recreation at Guffey Gorge (also known as Paradise Cove).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on Nov. 20, 2014, Jameson Kaulaity, a 28-year-old Northern Arapaho Tribal member, was sentenced by United States District Judge Scott W. Skavdahl to 15 months of imprisonment, to be followed by 3 years supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. announced today that the Middle District of Alabama collected $2,051,872.00 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $1,276,453.00 was collected in criminal actions and $775,419.00 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced former Baltimore Police officer Lamin Manneh, age 33, of Baltimore, today to 21 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for traveling across state lines and using the telephone and internet to operate a prostitution business.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - Attorney General Eric Holder announced on Wednesday that the Justice Department collected approximately $24.7 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014. The more than $24 billion in collections in FY 2014 represents nearly eight and a half times the appropriated $2.91 billion budget for the 94 U.S. Attorney’s offices and the main litigating divisions in that same period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: “Loco Barrera" Worked With Two Colombian Terrorist Organizations To Manufacture And Distribute Hundreds Of Tons Of Cocaine Per Year, And Laundered Tens Of Millions Of Dollars In Drug Proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Senator Bernard Sanders, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced legislation in the Senate and House to require drug companies to reimburse Medicaid if they raise the prices of their generic drugs more quickly than inflation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 22 indictments charging 23 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Fortunato Rodelo-Lara and Jesus Wilfredo Almendares-Vasquez were convicted of two counts of engaging in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine and one count of distribution of cocaine by a federal jury on Nov. 18, 2014, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fourteen alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi, including four of its most senior leaders, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Mississippi for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. In a separate indictment, 11 alleged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and Felicia C. Adams, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi announced today that fourteen alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi, including four of its most senior leaders, have been indicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Furman Troy, age 44, of Charlotte Hall, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for two counts of armed commercial robbery and for brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. --- The Bureau of Land Management announced new appointments or reappointments of members to Colorado’s citizen-based Northwest Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Yosemite Conservancy provided $1.4 Million for 13 youth programs in 2014.
