News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Paul Ryan on the Radio: Trade, Trade, Trade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROBERTO HERRERA-VILLAGOMEZ, age 23, and JUAN MANUEL HERRERA-VILLAGOMEZ, age 34, both citizens of Mexico, pled guilty today to a two-count Indictment charging them with violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Webster Parish woman was sentenced to 60 months in prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute at a Springhill retail store.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Making False Statement to Federal Agency was sentenced on April 27, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - DEA Special Agent Joseph Piersante today became the first-ever member of DEA to receive the Secretary of Defense Medal for the Defense of Freedom -. Piersante was struck by enemy gun fire while on a counter-terrorism and narcotics mission in Afghanistan in 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that James Perry Horton, 48, of Centralia, Illinois, pled guilty today to an 11-count indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury in December 2014. Horton was named in Counts 1 and 11 of the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City man was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing with intent to sell methamphetamine at his home.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 46-year-old Germantown man was indicted this week on tax evasion charges for failing to file and pay more than $500,000 in income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Misprision of a Felony was sentenced on April 27, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Toms River, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to smuggle more than $200,000 worth of firearms parts out of the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 21-year-old former U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) reservist was indicted by a federal grand jury this week on theft of government property charges for stealing and selling assault-style training rifles, ammunition, and body armor. The indictment also alleges that the defendant used two government vehicles in an unauthorized manner.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an auction Tuesday, May 5 at 10 a.m. to sell 29 parcels of public land, totaling 597.59 acres. Parcels vary in size from 1.25 to 247.6 acres and are located in the Las Vegas Valley.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) released the following joint statement in response to the Administration’s veto threat of H.R. 1732, the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act, a bill that...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) subpoenaed the Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General on Wednesday for material related to the VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wis. The facility has been the focus of allegations of overprescription of opioids, veterans’ deaths, and a culture of fear and retaliation among employees. Chairman Johnson’s committee is investigating those allegations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an indictment charging ANTHONY CURTIS HARRIS, 33, and six others with conspiring to traffic cocaine and marijuana into Minnesota from California and Arizona via FedEx and the United States Postal Service.1 Additionally, some members of the conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Earlier today in Merced in the presence of his family and many friends and former colleagues, a ceremony was held in honor of Rick Oules, former Law Enforcement Coordinator for the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, that included the unveiling...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Cellu Tissue Neenah operating as Clearwater Paper Neenah
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Congratulations on your first bill as Chairman.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: "Good morning and thank you Chairman Conaway.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 58-year-old Lafayette, LA, man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
