News from September 2014
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: "I thank the gentleman. "M__ Speaker, I rise today to support H.R. 5078, the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act. "As others have said, H.R. 5078 would prohibit the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers from redefining “waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act.
By State Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TOMORROW to examine the dismal security situation in Libya and the Obama Administration’s Libya policy. The hearing, entitled “Libya’s Descent, " will begin at 10 a.m. ET.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Sherry L Hender was sentenced to 29 months and ordered to pay restitution of $51,629 for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, September 9, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Abra K. Albrecht, 31, of Carrollton, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Anthony M. Cirulli, a former employee of a Las Vegas casino company, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to one count of tax evasion, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Nelson Begay, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 90 months in federal prison for his child pornography conviction. Begay will be on supervised release for 15 years after completing his prison sentence and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - J. Keith McCray, previously a criminal investigator with the Macon County, Alabama, Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced today by Judge Myron H. Thompson to 36 months in prison and two years of supervised release for assaulting a handcuffed man at the county jail, announced the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - David Keith, 31, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole, Jr. to 78 months in prison, and 10 years of supervised release with specific conditions, including that he register as a sex offender. In May 2014, Keith pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and accessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 32-year-old former Pittston resident pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik to conspiring with others to recruit, harbor, and transport minor females to engage in commercial sex acts for money during the summer of 2013 in Luzerne and Dauphin counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that a federal jury has found Xavier Francisco Villanueva, a/k/a “X," (25, Orlando) Jose Carmona, a/k/a “Hood," (21, Orlando) and Ashley Nicole Barnett, a/k/a “Snow," (25, Orlando) guilty of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - On Sept. 4, 2014, a federal grand jury indicted Doctor Michael Roger Chiarottino, with fourteen counts of distributing Schedule II controlled substances, and one count of distributing a Schedule III controlled substance outside the usual course of professional practice and without a legitimate medical purpose, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Lowell, MA (September 8, 2014) - Lowell National Historical Park is one of 65 national parks selected to receive a 2014 Ticket to Ride grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks. The grant supports the programming and bus fees for 600 Nashua School District...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to request that the Committee hold a bipartisan hearing to investigate the causes and effects of a very serious data security breach at Community Health Systems, Inc., the nation’s largest for-profit hospital chain. Last month, Community Health Systems, which operates...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Business leaders are increasingly pushing for action to curb the growing number of inversions, with CVS CEO Larry Merlo saying this month that “these tax inversions left unchecked will further erode the corporate tax base." Recent polling has shown that more than three-quarters of Americans disapprove of inversions, with the majority wanting immediate action by Congress to halt the abuse. Yet House Republicans continue to drag their feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An electronics engineer for the U.S. Army pleaded guilty today to making false statements in an attempt to obtain a government military contract to manufacture a portable power supply for U.S. Army use, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kevin Koliner, an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Appellate Chief for the District of South Dakota, has received the Top Prosecutor Award by Women in Federal Law Enforcement (WIFLE) for his work in Human Trafficking. Koliner received the national award...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing more than $518 million in rural electric cooperatives to improve the delivery of electric power to communities in 15 states. This funding is part of nearly $50 billion that USDA has invested in infrastructure improvements since 2009.
