News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced that James Grimes, aged 29, of Columbus, Georgia was sentenced to serve 97 months in Federal prison for possession of child pornography. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. The sentence was handed down on April 22, 2015, by the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Andrew A. Rooks (58, Jacksonville) with two separate conspiracies to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and ten counts of wire fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: For lack of time today, there are only a few points I’ll tick through. Over the next decade and a half, the global middle class is going to balloon by more than two billion people, and they’re going to spend money. They’re going to buy computers, cars, medical products, agricultural goods, engineering plans, and more. I want those people buying things that are designed and built by Oregonian and American workers in high-wage, high-skill jobs.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a Committee hearing on the Iran nuclear agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, presented the Crystal Kipper & Ali Kemp Memorial Award today to Craig Hill, a professional consultant with a long history of combatting crimes against children during many years working in law enforcement as well as through his own organization and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger has sentenced James Patrick Foreman (44, Jacksonville) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for advertising child pornography. Foreman was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervision, and to register as sex offender following his release. He pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, 2014, and has been detained since his arrest in October 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Scott C. Rettler, (age: 45) of Neopit, WI located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, was sentenced on April 20, 2015, to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by a three year term of supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Rettler on Jan. 26, 2015, to a federal information charging him with assaulting his girlfriend, which resulted in substantial bodily injury to the victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville man was charged today, by a federal grand jury, with robbing seven pharmacies located in Jefferson County, Kentucky, including carrying a firearm during one of the robberies, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) held a hearing Wednesday, titled “Securing the Border: Understanding Threats and Strategies for the Northern Border." It was the fifth in a series of border security hearings the chairman and committee have held over the past few months to better understand and address the reality of the situation at our borders.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN MO:A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,296,437 visitors to Ozark National Scenic Riverways in 2014 spent $53,912,000 in communities near the park.That spending supported 842 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $58,266,600.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, the Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division, Jonathan Kay, Phyllis C. Borzi, the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employee Benefits (DOL), and...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) repatriated dozens of illegally smuggled ancient artifacts to the government of Egypt, including a Greco-Roman style Egyptian sarcophagus, at a ceremony Wednesday at the National Geographic Society in Washington. The return of these ancient...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Following a six-day trial, a federal jury convicted a Springfield man with distributing cocaine, crack cocaine, and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Filipino national appeared in federal court today to face charges that he allegedly conspired to smuggle firearms parts out of the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today celebrated Earth Day by announcing support for projects to improve rural water and wastewater services, promote renewable energy, and promote the efficient use of energy resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Amanda Bishop, 35, of Martinsburg, was convicted today in federal court after she submitted fraudulent mortgage documents during court proceedings, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing to learn about the Bureau of Indian Education, housed under the Department of Interior, and the significant challenges facing the schools it has a responsibility to support.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: There will be a hemlock treatment workshop for all interested persons on Saturday, May 2, 2015. Participants should meet at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time) at the Morgan County Visitor Center at the junction of Highways 62 and 27 in Wartburg, Tennessee, for registration and initial instruction. The event will focus on cleaning up and preserving the spectacular beauty of the area around Potters Falls and along Crooked Fork Creek.
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will meet to consider the following measures...
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today presided over a hearing on reauthorization of the U.S. Department of State. The committee heard testimony from Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources Heather Higginbottom.
