News from October 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to request that the Committee convene a bipartisan hearing to examine a recent data security breach at JPMorgan Chase that reportedly exposed the personal information of approximately 76 million households and 7 million small businesses. According to filings with the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Javier Maya, 35, has been ordered to prison following his convictions of conspiracy to possess and possession with intent to distribute approximately 1,000 pounds of marijuana, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A jury convicted Maya Jan. 30, 2014, after two days of trial testimony and approximately six hours of deliberations.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative continues today as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hosts an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roundtable features an all-star lineup including the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins. Prior to the event this morning, Dr. Collins and Upton discussed the important initiative with Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate WWMT Newschannel 3.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Red Rock/Sloan Field Office will host a public meeting on October 9 at 2 p.m. at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Visitor Center classroom. The meeting will focus on information about a proposed fence around Schumacher Spring to restore the area to a functioning riparian system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jason Carlsen, 41, of Citrus Heights, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to five years in prison for possession of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, was joined by Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Elijah Cummings (D-MD) today in announcing that fourteen Attorneys General from around the country have expressed support for their legislation to improve coordination between federal agencies that oversee the for-profit college industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced that on Oct. 6, 2014, Everardo Duarte, 38, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 12 years imprisonment. Duarte pleaded guilty on July 21, 2014 to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Scheme Caused $14 Million Tax Loss, Enriching Defendant By More Than $600,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentence last week of WAKINYON WAKAN MCARTHUR, a/k/a “Kon," a/k/a “Killa," 36, the former leader of the Native Mob, to 43 years in prison. WILLIAM EARL MORRIS, 27, and ANTHONY FRANCIS CREE, 27, were also sentenced to 35 years and approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Joe Dale Walker, 61, of Monticello, Mississippi, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to a criminal information charging him with obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special in Agent in Charge Don Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Anthony Preston, a/k/a “40," or “Tone," age 27, of Laurel, in Howard County Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to participate in a racketeering conspiracy, and using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with his membership in the Bloods gang operating primarily out of Howard County, Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative continues today as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hosts an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roundtable features an all-star lineup including the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins. Prior to the event this morning, Dr. Collins and Upton discussed the important initiative with Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate WWMT Newschannel 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - David Anthony Mantey, 41, of Gray, Tenn., was sentenced on Oct. 6, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, to serve 180 months in federal prison. Mantey was previously convicted of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement regarding a report released today by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Inspector General (IG). The report focused on the steam generator replacement that resulted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOE FERNANDEZ was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to two consecutive terms of life in prison by U.S District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein. FERNANDEZ was found guilty on March 7, 2013, following a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man previously charged in federal court with throwing Molotov cocktails at the local congressional office of U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II was indicted by a federal grand jury today on additional charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - On October 6, 2014, a resident of Northern Cambria, Pa., was sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first 12 months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, 250 hours of community service, and a $50,000 fine on his conviction of conspiracy to commit money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The 21st Century Cures initiative continues today as Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hosts an event in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The roundtable features an all-star lineup including the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins. Prior to the event this morning, Dr. Collins and Upton discussed the important initiative with Kalamazoo’s CBS affiliate WWMT Newschannel 3.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. consumers are enjoying some welcome relief at the gas pump this fall, providing more evidence of the transformative power of the U.S. shale revolution. Despite global unrest, gasoline prices have continued to decline in recent weeks thanks to a surge in U.S. crude production. USA Today reports, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 7, 2014
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