News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A former Fort Knox Energy Program Manager was charged in a second superseding indictment today with devising multiple wire fraud schemes to defraud the United States and violating criminal conflict of interest laws, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded approval of three bipartisan HELP Committee bills. The Traumatic Brain Injury Reauthorization Act of 2014 and S.2511, a bill to amend the Employment Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, were both approved by the Senate and the Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014 was approved by the House.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee adopted bipartisan inspector general reform legislation introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). The Committee approved H.R. 5492, Inspector General Empowerment...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: ~MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, has returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni for the District of Hawaii announced today that Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 60, a former Honolulu, Hawaii, civilian defense contractor and retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Charlene Baca, 43, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging her with theft from an Indian gaming establishment.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: My internship with the Tribal Energy Program has directly served my desire to learn about and understand renewable energy development in Indian Country. The research I have conducted, along with fellow intern Len Necefer, has focused on addressing the gap between the significant renewable energy resource...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with throwing Molotov cocktails at the local congressional office of U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Rennie W. Wells, 74, most recently living in the Philippines, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, by United States District Judge Aleta Trauger, to 78 months in prison for abusive sexual contact with a minor, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The prison sentence will be followed by 15 years of supervised release. Wells had previously pleaded guilty to the offense on April 10, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: New Report Pulls Back the Curtain on Secret Efforts in the Botched HealthCare.gov Rollout
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Nine people are in custody following DEA’s takedown of Operation Shattered Dreams. Warrants served in San Diego, Spring Valley, Chula Vista, and El Cajon are the conclusion of a year-long undercover drug operation. The Drug Enforcement (DEA) served numerous search warrants from 7:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Sept. 11, 2014, Leann Sue Perez, age 39, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge John A. Jarvey for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Perez was sentenced to 40 months in prison, and was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
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By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed Senate passage of the BLM Permit Processing Improvement Act of 2014 (S. 2440 ), a bipartisan bill that would make permanent a program designed to provide resources to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to reduce the backlog of permit applications and improve the efficiency of its oil and natural gas permitting process without reducing environmental protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an officer at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to dissuading an inmate at the facility from reporting an assault by a correctional officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. -Two Newark men admitted this week to robbing a Target Store in Union, New Jersey, on “Black Friday" in November 2012, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Keith G. Smith, age 54, of Aurora, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore for filing and assisting in preparing false tax returns, United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announced. Judge Moore is scheduled to sentence Smith on December 9, 2014. Smith was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on March 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Brenda Jo Kibbee, was sentenced yesterday to nine months’ imprisonment for intentionally failing to pay Federal excise tax on wine, and ordered to pay $877,126.94 in restitution to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, TTB Assistant Administrator for Field Operations Tom Crone, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Thomas Caul...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Saint Lawrence County kidnapping case. SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian will conduct a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 18th at 11:30 AM, in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, 9th floor, 100 S. Clinton Street, Syracuse, NY. No further information will be provided prior to...
