News from February 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FY 2016 Performance Budget Request." Witnesses will include the Chairman and four Commissioners of the CPSC.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANGEL ENO CORNEJO-MORENO, age 40, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to examine abusive patent demand letters. While legitimate patent assertion is a long-recognized tool for protecting intellectual property, bad actors have made a lucrative business by sending thousands of vague letters that demand recipients purchase a license for a large amount of money or risk being sued.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Coy C. Klinger, 37, of Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty to sex trafficking of children before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Defendants were Three of Twenty-Nine Charged in February 2014 with Trafficking Methamphetamine in San Juan County.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today responded to the FCC’s vote in favor of utility-style regulation of the Internet...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to examine abusive patent demand letters. While legitimate patent assertion is a long-recognized tool for protecting intellectual property, bad actors have made a lucrative business by sending thousands of vague letters that demand recipients purchase a license for a large amount of money or risk being sued.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz lauded the Montana U.S. Attorney’s Office with an award for innovation in cooperation and effective investigation this week at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut executive was arrested this morning on charges that he sold confidential business information regarding the wireless industry to an analyst at a Boston-based financial services firm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis announced today that Earl Worthy, 39 and Tammy Jean Jackson, 39, of Fairbanks, Alaska, were arrested on Feb. 24, 2015, for filing false income taxes. Worthy and Jackson were indicated by a federal grand jury on Feb. 18, 2015, for one count of conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to claims; seven counts of mail fraud; and seven counts of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Deloris Lozuaway, 61, of Carlsbad, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of firearms. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that ASM AFSARY, 42, of Stamford, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 36 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Kyle A. Tesca, age 21, Caleb A. Lambert, age 21, and Kollin J. Tesca, age 19, all of Mansfield, Ohio, with armed bank robbery and brandishing firearms during the bank robberies, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Chet Lee West, 59, of Nebo, North Carolina, was convicted on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2015, after a jury found him guilty of three counts of tax evasion relating to tax years 2007, 2008 and 2009. Chief Judge Laurie Smith Camp presided over the trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Indictment Alleges He Misappropriated More Than $24 Million In Funds From More Than 5,000 Customers. SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Curtis Lynn DeYoung...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Felicia D. Russell, 30, of Cleveland, with purchasing a firearm for a convicted felon, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Cybersecurity is one of our critical homeland security priorities. We welcome the President’s announcement today on the creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC). This center will ensure an integrated intelligence community view of cyber threats and ensure that intelligence information is shared with all U.S. agencies responsible for cybersecurity and network defense.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced nearly $14 million in grants to support four programs to increase prosperity in rural America through research, education, and extension programs focused on promoting rural community development, economic growth, and sustainability.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: A federal jury in Detroit today convicted a patient recruiter and a physical therapist for their roles in a $1.6 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade of the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The former mayor of the municipality of Río Grande, Puerto Rico, was sentenced today to 64 months in prison and ordered to forfeit $39,000 for soliciting and receiving cash bribes from a contractor who sought construction inspection contracts with the municipality.
