News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Sept. 12, 2014, Keithy D. Carter, a/k/a “Darnell K. Carter," 23, of Tamms, Ill., pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging Possession of a Firearm by a Felon, the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: A 19-count federal indictment was filed charging a former Gates Mills resident with operating a $9.6 million investment scheme in which he defrauded investors and enriched himself, law enforcement officials said.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report prepared by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that, despite the president’s clear promise, taxpayer dollars are being spent on abortion plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Just over five years ago, President Obama...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Sept. 12, 2014, Johnathan T. Buck, a/k/a “Buffalo," of Carbondale, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the conviction of DONNA M. DODSON, age 52, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who pled guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to five (5) counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343. DODSON faces a maximum sentence of one hundred (100) years in prison and fines totaling $1,250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four south Missouri residents were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report prepared by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that, despite the president’s clear promise, taxpayer dollars are being spent on abortion plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Just over five years ago, President Obama...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD MELTZ, the former Chief of Police, United States Department of Veterans Affairs, at the Bedford Veterans Affairs Medical Center, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to ten years for conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Timothy Keevan, 49, of Swanton, Vermont, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, in United States District Court in Burlington, Vermont, to serve 48-months imprisonment and a 15-year period of supervised release following his...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week the House will continue its work to create jobs and reduce costs for consumers by voting on the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act. Sponsored by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), this comprehensive energy legislation includes a number of bills previously...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, September 17 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a legislative hearing on the EEOC Transparency and Accountability Act (H.R. 4959), the Litigation Oversight Act of 2014 (H.R 5422), and the Certainty in Enforcement Act of 2014 (H.R. 5423). The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today introduced legislation to expand American diplomatic efforts across the Caribbean. The United States-Caribbean Partnership Act of 2014 would establish new American embassies in five countries-Antigua...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, a Brooklyn man who was convicted of wire fraud after defrauding a Hawaiian investor of $1 million was sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $1 million in restitution. Telson Okhio, the vice president of Ohio Group...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Anthony Robinson, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, was found guilty today by a federal jury hearing the robbery case against him. Robinson was found guilty of two counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce and one count of using a firearm during a crime of violence. A sentencing hearing is pending.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Allison C. Lerner, Inspector General of the National Science Foundation, today announced that SCIENCEFRIDAY...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: An invasive exotic insect, red pine scale, has been confirmed by Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry Forest Service entomologists on dying red pines on the south side of Norumbega Mountain, near Lower Hadlock Pond, in the town of Mount Desert. Red pine scale was discovered in the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park programs with the community and visitors in October. All programs are free, but park entrance fees may apply. Programs are co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association. Mark the calendar for these upcoming events.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the full Senate confirmed Jeffery M. Baran and Stephen G. Burns to be Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Timothy Cromer, a former Detroit Public Library official, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
