News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Keller, 70, of Hurricane, pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights crime Tuesday morning in federal court in Salt Lake City. Keller was charged with interfering with the housing rights of three members of an interracial family because of the family member’s races and because the family members were living in a home in Hurricane, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man admitted today to engaging in a conspiracy to distribute heroin with Mykal Derry, a leader of the “Dirty Block" criminal street gang that allegedly used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Eleven individuals were charged and arrested in metro-Detroit today on criminal food stamp fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and recent updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Committee leaders recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management seeks volunteers to participate in either of two National Public Lands Day projects in the Grand Valley Sept. 27.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into whether certain federal agency decisions concerning clean coal technology have complied with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05). The committee has been particularly interested in whether or not EPA adhered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maria Herrmann, 53, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 10 months in prison for embezzling over $193,000 from a charitable organization from 2004 through 2008, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Gary R. Barksdale, Inspector in Charge of the Washington Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - This Saturday, Sept. 27, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and over 65 law enforcement partners will hold the ninth Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Arizonans can take their expired, unneeded, or unwanted prescription drugs to one of over 90 collection sites across Arizona between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Antoine D. Clark (30, Orlando) pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him with receipt of a bribe by a public official. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter, top Republican on the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) made the following statement on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released today on the Department of Transportation's (DOT) administration of the transportation grant program created with the controversial 2009 "stimulus" funding.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into whether certain federal agency decisions concerning clean coal technology have complied with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct05). The committee has been particularly interested in whether or not EPA adhered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Joseph Brown, 38, of Meridian, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to 78 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession of narcotics, United States Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. Brown was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and forfeit a Norinco 7.62.39mm SKS rifle.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and recent updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Committee leaders recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the ongoing Ebola outbreak and recent updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Committee leaders recently sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 22, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that up to $2.5 million is available to establish the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Child Poverty Nutrition Center. This competitive grant is part of USDA's efforts to reduce childhood food insecurity in rural communities in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that the Justice Department has selected four sites to receive a total of $2.6 million in grants to implement promising models aimed at reducing domestic violence homicides. Over the next two years, these sites-Pitt County, North Carolina; Cuyahoga County...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Neosho, Mo., couple have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper and Newton counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Forty-nine days ago, on August 4th, this Office issued a report detailing the appalling treatment of adolescents at Rikers Island. Since then, we have been engaged in making sure that the City and Department of Correction are moving swiftly to implement reforms that are meaningful, effective, and permanent.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Domestic Violence Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding, was sentenced on Sept. 17, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the General Services Administration (GSA) have not updated or revised a plan to ensure that the $4.7 billion DHS consolidation project at St. Elizabeths makes operational and fiscal sense, a new report from the Government Accountability...
