News from October 2014
By DOE Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members have taken the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative around the country with roundtables in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina. The ongoing conversations have been instrumental in building...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former direct care giver, Sherifat Kofo Yusuff, has pled guilty to criminal abuse of a 50-year-old vulnerable adult, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen, Jr. and District of Columbia Interim Inspector General Blanche L. Bruce announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney’s Office announces today that there will be a Pre-Trial Conference hearing tomorrow (Oct. 21, 2014) in United States v. Warren Dominique McDaniel. The hearing will be held at 2:00 pm on Oct. 21, 2014, before United States District Judge Michelle Childs (courtroom # 2) at the Matthew J. Perry Federal Courthouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
By State Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on reports that the Obama Administration is seeking to avoid Congress with any final negotiated agreement on Iran’s nuclear program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A receptionist previously employed by a medical office in Kearny, New Jersey, today admitted embezzling more than $446,000 from her former employer, using fraudulent credit cards to obtain more than $200,000 in goods and services and evading taxes on that illegal income, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Marijuana was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man charged with Malicious Mischief pled guilty to and was sentenced on Oct. 10, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, issued the following statement today regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) decision on USDA’s 2013 proposed modifications to the U.S. Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) law...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: A 23-count indictment was filed charging a Virginia executive with providing things of value to the former director of the Cleveland and Dayton Veterans Affairs Medical Center in exchange for confidential information about VA construction projects, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner of Reliable Wood Products (Reliable Wood) today admitted his role in a conspiracy to steal at least $100,000 worth of water from the Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (JCMUA), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Dwight McVernon Green, 24, of Huntington, West Virginia pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to distribute heroin. United States District Court Chief Judge Robert C. Chambers presided over the plea hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Festus Frimpong, age 19, of Newark, Delaware, was sentenced today by the Honorable Leonard P. Stark, United States District Judge for the District of Delaware, to 46 months imprisonment and...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee members have taken the bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative around the country with roundtables in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and North Carolina. The ongoing conversations have been instrumental in building...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man who owned Chinese restaurants in Olathe and Kansas City, Mo., pleaded guilty Monday to conspiring to employ and harbor workers who were in the United States illegally, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Three other defendants also pleaded guilty to federal charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of False Statement was sentenced on Oct. 15, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING - The public will encounter logging truck traffic on some Bureau of Land Management-administered lands in Grand and Jackson counties this fall and winter as logging operations continue in lodgepole pine forests impacted by the mountain pine beetle.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin and various state and local law enforcement officials will discuss recent efforts by law enforcement to refer addicts to treatment at a press conference on Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. at Prestera, PARC East, 1143 Dunbar Avenue in Dunbar, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A man pleaded guilty Monday to an armed robbery at a Wendy’s restaurant in Topeka, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman was acquitted of Arson on October 9, 2014, as a result of a federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. Mary Peneaux was indicted by a federal grand jury in November 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 20, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Lovell Rhodes, a 77 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced today. Mr. Rhodes pled guilty to theft of government funds on July 21, 2014. Mr. Rhodes mother died in 1997, and at that time, she was receiving SSA widow’s benefits. Her...
