News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lebanon, Mo., automobile dealer has been indicted by a federal grand jury for a mail fraud scheme in which he sold dozens of vehicles with fraudulent titles that greatly underreported the actual mileage of the vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that three individuals have been arrested on federal charges as a result of a joint federal, state, and local law enforcement investigation dubbed Operation Glass House. Luis A. Acosta (34, Crescent City) was charged with conspiracy...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), held a field hearing in Greenfield, Indiana to examine the health care challenges facing the state's classrooms and workplaces. According to a local news report ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $4.5 million for four projects to help increase deployment of innovative wind power technologies by optimizing the operation, boosting efficiency, and improving the environmental performance of wind energy systems. The research and development (R&D) projects, located...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting information and a study related to the commission’s work on potential changes to broadcast exclusivity rules for local markets.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend special programs commemorating the 151st anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga from Thursday, September 18 through Sunday, September 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Lawrence “Daniel" Murphy, age 37, of St. Michaels, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to attempting to violate the Lacey Act by trafficking in illegally harvested striped bass.
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ), Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, sent a letter to Mexico’s Attorney General, Jesús Murillo Karam, to express their concern for the well-being of U.S. Marine Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi and to call for his immediate release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, September 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HECTOR QUINONES, also known as “Jumbe," 52, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The owner of a Huntington Beach-based military contractor who pleaded guilty to federal tax charges for failing to report to the Internal Revenue Service millions of dollars his company received for providing services to the military at Baghdad International Airport was sentenced today to 48 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, OR - Amanda Marshall, United States Attorney for the District of Oregon, announced that two defendants were indicted in relation to an illegal marijuana grow on federal land in Jackson County. Humberto Salgado-Salgado, 36, and Juan Albert Lopez-Moroyoqui, 50, were charged with conspiracy and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, Amos Rojas, Jr., United States Marshal, U.S. Marshals Service (USMS), Hugo Barrera, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - A grand jury indictment was unsealed on Aug. 27, 2014, charging three men with conspiring to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine between Las Vegas and Alaska. The indictment charges three men: Daren D. Cole, 47, Dewane E. Blue, 37, and Bryan M. Bledsoe, 36.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Station Manager Submitted Fraudulent and Inflated Invoices for Landscaping and Cleaning Services in Exchange for Bribe Payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, 42-year-old Jacob Robert Holguin (aka “Friend of Grimm") was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for distribution of child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 8, 2014. The committee will advance the #Path2Cures effort with a Health Subcommittee hearing Tuesday and roundtable Wednesday, continue its oversight of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and review legislation to improve care for victims of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting information and a study related to the commission’s work on potential changes to broadcast exclusivity rules for local markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Press Conference to be held Monday, September 8, 2014 1:30 PM.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announce the conviction of Andres Campo, 26, ...
