News from November 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) wrote to Department of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding the Administration’s refusal to produce a key witness for interview prior to the election. The Committee is seeking to speak with Hannah Stott-Bumstead, who was the first Treasury official informed that the IRS had “lost" two years of Lois Lerner emails.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ANDREW WAYNE LANDELLS, 47, of Jamaica, to 180 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announces that Woodstock Gallery and Clover Gift Shop, both located in Woodstock, Vermont, have agreed to complete specific modifications to come into compliance with Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA"). Title III of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Brian Morin, age 47 of Greenville, SC, entered a guilty plea to theft of government funds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 in connection with a grant administered to Morin’s former company, Innegrity LLC. According to facts presented during the guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced that its civil rights lawsuit involving the Terrebonne Parish Juvenile Detention Center in Houma, Louisiana, has resulted in improved conditions for the youth confined in the facility, and it asked the federal court to dismiss the case. Reforms Terrebonne Parish...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ROBERT JOSEPH PARKER, 52, of Fairfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Webb, a/k/a Butch, 57, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 151 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The defendant was also ordered to forfeit $9,172 in drug trafficking proceeds, a firearm and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement following the passing of former Congressman and long-time Committee Member Bill Frenzel.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the release of a GAO report on IRAs with very large account balances, also known as “mega IRAs." GAO found that for tax year 2011, roughly 600,000 taxpayers had IRA accounts worth more than $1 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance announced today that the Northern District of Alabama collected $7.5 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, the office collected $3.2 million in criminal actions and $4.3 million in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton, Southern District of Illinois, announced today that the Southern District of Illinois collected $5,490,994.09 in criminal and civil actions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: HELENA - U.S. Attorney Michael W. Cotter announced today that the Montana United States Attorney's Office collected $14.1 million in Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 related to criminal and civil actions and an additional $3.4 million related to criminal and civil forfeiture. In some of these cases, the U.S. Attorney's Office worked in conjunction with litigating components of the U.S. Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: In Waco today, 51-year-old Milton Lewis Anglin of China Spring, TX, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison for bank robbery announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Christopher Combs, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CLEMMON BRIDGES, age 56, of Houston, Texas, and DARIN FIELDS, age 32, of Bogalusa, Louisiana, were sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine hydrochloride and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A South Carolina man today admitted tampering with a witness in a federal criminal trial that concluded in September 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STEVEN BOURG, 51, of LaRose, Louisiana, pled guilty today to misuse of a federal license.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ALEC REDNER, 28 years old, of Raleigh, North Carolina to 21 months imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Republican Conference selected U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) to continue serving as Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Royce has served on the Committee since entering the House of Representatives in 1993, serving as Chairman since 2013.
