News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Mexican national who fled to Mexico, was arrested there, and agreed to extradition, was sentenced today to the maximum of 40 years in federal prison for sexually molesting two minor girls and producing child pornography. The defendant, EDGAR HERNANDEZ, 36, pleaded guilty earlier this year to one count each of manufacturing child pornography and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Springdale, Utah:Following two major rain events this month, Zion National Park is forced to push back the weekday reopening of the East Rim Trail from September 19thto October 3rd. This work is part of a multi-year project to rehabilitate several of the trails out of the Weeping Rock shuttle area. The East Rim Trail will remain open Saturdays and Sundays, and most Fridays, as construction continues.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania returned a superseding indictment yesterday against Daniel Curran, age 40, of York. The superseding indictment charges Curran with Production of Child Pornography, Receipt of Child Pornography and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gina M. Adams, 46, a former background investigator for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), pled guilty today to a charge stemming from her falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced three individuals yesterday for their roles in stealing from an employee benefit plan of a local union. Two of the individuals, Brandon Alfonso (28, Orange City) and Marta Blackmer (71, Orange City) previously pleaded guilty. Alfonso...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: In the Waco area today, federal and state authorities arrested 21 Aryan Brotherhood (AB) members and associates, including ranking AB members 54-year-old Wayne Huisinger of Belton, TX, and 39-year-old Robert Eaton of Kempner, Texas, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution operation announced...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will vote today on H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act, authored by Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA). The bill helps to protect American workers from the president’s #BrokenPromises by allowing health insurance plans currently available on the group...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A man formerly of Raleigh, North Carolina, and now of Miami, was sentenced today to serve 135 months in prison for tax fraud, healthcare fraud and money laundering crimes in two separate cases in federal court, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Ronald A. Cimino of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Suicide Prevention and Treatment: Helping Loved Ones in Mental Health Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014. Persuaded Investors To Invest Ira Funds In Residential Real Estate Project In Vernal, Utah. SALT LAKE CITY - Martin A. Pool, age 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, who pleaded guilty in May to securities fraud and money...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: You know the words, have sung them most of your life, but do you know the second verse or the third of the Star-Spangled Banner our National Anthem?
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week built upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess by approving two more commonsense and bipartisan pieces of legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -A federal grand jury indicted a Lafayette man Wednesday for not listing more than $350,000 on an income tax return, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Donald Howard Smiley, age 38, of Gaffney, was sentenced today in federal court in Anderson, for possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2255A. Senior United States District Judge G. Ross Anderson, Jr. of Anderson sentenced Smiley to 78 months imprisonment and ordered that he be on supervised release for five years.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today's Committee vote on the nominations for Jeffery Baran and Stephen Burns to be members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Due to the change of the Senate rules, nominees only need a simple majority to pass. Therefore, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid can force through unqualified nominees.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today advanced H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA). This bill would allow plans available on the group market in 2013 to continue to be offered through...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to review H.R. 5411, the Trafficking Awareness Training for Health Care Act of 2014, authored by Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC). The legislation seeks to provide health care professionals the tools necessary to identify and care for victims of human trafficking. Witnesses discussed the important role health care providers can play in helping these victims.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, September 18 at 11:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Suicide Prevention and Treatment: Helping Loved Ones in Mental Health Crisis."
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today advanced H.R. 3522, the Employee Health Care Protection Act, legislation authored by Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA). This bill would allow plans available on the group market in 2013 to continue to be offered through...
