News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced bipartisan trade legislation to strengthen trade enforcement efforts at the border and to streamline legal trade in goods.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Washington - USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for six rural electric infrastructure projects, including three in North Carolina that will use solar energy to generate electricity for rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: CONTACT: Barbara Burns. PHONE: (716) 843-5817. FAX #: (716) 551-3051. ROCHESTER, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mendeecees Harris, 36, of the Bronx, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Damion Latoras Foster, 34, of Atlanta, Georgia, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, on charges of conspiring to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount $37,308.95.
By State Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the recent nuclear framework agreement with Iran. The hearing, entitled “Nuclear Agreement with Iran: Can’t Trust, Can We Verify?, " will be held in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Conducted his criminal activities out of several local motels.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former operator of a Detroit adult day care center and two former owners of Detroit-area home health care companies were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a $29 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for firearms trafficking, said U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach and Donald Soranno, Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Defendants And Their Co-conspirators Caused Losses Of Approximately $150 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in prison for firearms trafficking, said U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach and Donald Soranno, Special Agent in Charge of ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abel Michael Quiroz, 27, a former U.S. Border Patrol Agent who resides in Las Cruces, N.M., Quiroz was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court to 30 months in prison for his child pornography conviction. Quiroz will be on supervised release for five years after completing his prison sentence. He also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Three Orthodox Jewish Rabbis were convicted at trial today for conspiring to kidnap Jewish men in an effort to force them to give their wives religious divorces, referred to as “gets," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent In Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and William Offord, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation announced that DUSTIN WHITTEN, 32, pleaded guilty on Friday, April 17, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Del E. Weech, 59, of Kuna, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to six months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for making false statements involving social security benefits, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Weech to pay $13,004 in restitution. Weech pleaded guilty to the charge on February 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Elliot Kahana (68, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kingdom City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing an employee at the Kingdom City post office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Waycross, GA: Donnel Cornelius Shavers, 23, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood following his pleas of guilty to charges of production of child pornography and the coercion and enticement of a child under the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old Jasper, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today released the following statement following the administration’s release of the first installment of its Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) focusing on energy transmission, storage, and distribution infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee today unveiled three draft proposals to improve transparency at the Federal Communications Commission. The three draft bills (detailed below) will be the focus of a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on Thursday, ...
