News from October 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md., asked U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson to conduct a comprehensive external review of the Secret Service beyond the September...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jeremy Daniel Labrec, 24, formerly of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 120 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in June 2014 to one count of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Glimpses of the Past:Oct. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Nicholas Darwin Yancey (30, originally from Orlando) pleaded guilty yesterday to child enticement. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted previously released public documents on Iraqi oil markets that indicated deteriorating security conditions in the country long before the fall of Mosul to ISIS in June 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Last night, President Obama signed into law H.R. 4980, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act, bipartisan legislation aimed at reducing child sex trafficking, increasing adoptions and improving child support collections. The bill was introduced in the House by...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Francisco Chavez-Arriaga, 50, of San Juan, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and five kilograms of cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STANLEY ZDON, III, age 28, a resident of Tuckerton, New Jersey, was sentenced today for conspiracy to produce child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: An energy transformation is underway in America and technology is leading the charge. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have completely shattered prior expectations about our nation’s energy future by unlocking vast amounts of shale resources that were previously considered off...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joseph F. Kilty, 53, of Wakefield, R.I., a former authorized dealer of a Sears Hometown and Outlet, Inc. store in Middletown, R.I., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to 3 years of probation, the first six months to be served in home confinement, for defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Maureen O’Mara, Special Agent in Charge, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Criminal Investigation Division (EPA-CID), Michael A. Hill, Special Agent in Charge, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NORWIN CASTELLON-LOPEZ, age 32, a citizen of Nicaragua who recently resided in New Orleans, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Oscar Gomez Guerra, 43, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Corpus Christi on charges of conspiring to launder monetary instruments and aiding and abetting the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: An energy transformation is underway in America and technology is leading the charge. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have completely shattered prior expectations about our nation’s energy future by unlocking vast amounts of shale resources that were previously considered off...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RAMONA HUDSON, age 51, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to a fraudulent application she made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) introduced the Tax Technical Corrections Act of 2014 to make technical corrections to U.S. tax laws. The legislation responds to various inquiries from the public and government enforcement...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today said the U.S. Department of Agriculture should ensure that rural electric services and investments will not be harmed by proposed federal climate change regulations on power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that JAMES BUTCHER (58, of Little Falls, NY), an accountant engaged in the business of preparing tax returns, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day imprisonment, as well as 1 year supervised release and restitution to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Adlyn Marie Echevarria Robles, 22, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $13,168 in restitution by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
