News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury has charged JoAnna Ochieng, 66, of Columbus, Ohio, with tax fraud, health care fraud and money laundering in an indictment returned in Columbus.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I want to start off by laying out how I see Social Security, and how I think virtually all Americans see it, too.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national living in Methuen was sentenced on Monday for using stolen identities to obtain official identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Used Identities of Others and False Financial Information to Obtain a Small Business Loan, and Then Used Some of the Loan Proceeds to Buy a House Instead.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: I’d like to thank Chairman Cole and Ranking Member DeLauro for holding this hearing today. Chairman Cole, welcome back to the subcommittee. It’s been my pleasure working with you on these issues in the past, and I look forward to working together, with Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member DeLauro, to continue funding these important investments. And to Secretary Burwell, we are pleased to have you here today.
By State Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing at which Secretary of State John Kerry will testify. The hearing, entitled “Advancing U.S. Interests in a Troubled World: The FY 2016 Foreign Affairs Budget, " will provide Secretary Kerry an opportunity to justify President Obama’s FY 2016 foreign affairs budget request.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to help tribal communities nationwide enhance their energy security and build a sustainable energy future, the U.S. Department of Energy today announced the third round of Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Renewable Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christopher Roybal, 35, the former leader of an Albuquerque-based drug trafficking organization, entered a guilty plea in federal court this morning. Roybal pled guilty to a cocaine trafficking conspiracy charge and four money laundering charges under a plea agreement that requires him to serve a 14-year prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Michael J. Moore, announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury sitting in the United States District Court in Macon, Georgia on Feb. 11, 2015, which charged 35 defendants with drug trafficking and money laundering...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Dear Administrator Tavenner: The Supreme Court will soon consider the legality of regulations extending Advanced Premium Tax Credits (APTCs) to insurance policies purchased in the federally-facilitated marketplace, HealthCare.gov. These regulations were promulgated despite statutory language extending...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant was One of 21 Individuals Charged as Result of 2013 Multi-Agency Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) made the following statement about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s decision not to testify before Congress ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote on sweeping new regulation of the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Two juries return guilty verdicts on Kidnapping, Drug Trafficking, Firearms, and HIPAA Charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) dedicated a new $16.4 million, state-of-the-art airport traffic control tower at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport today. The new tower is equipped with the latest radar, communications, and weather technology. It will enable air traffic controllers to continue to provide the safest, most efficient service to flights at the busy South Florida airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E. Serrano, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings issued the following statement in support of the District of Columbia’s legal authority to implement its marijuana legalization initiative on Thursday...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Michelle Nicole Lane, 33, of Blountville, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 132 months in federal prison. Lane pleaded guilty in October 2014 to conspiracy to distribute, and to possess with the intent to distribute, 280 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine base (“crack"). There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on two charges of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, and two charges of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The Harvard-educated founder of a Boston-based financial services firm was indicted today on multiple charges of fraud and obstruction of justice for allegedly defrauding investors in a $40 million mutual fund.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released a one page fact sheet detailing the effects a shutdown would have on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) at this time of heightened terrorist interest in attacking the U.S. and carrying out attacks in other western nations. Congressman Thompson released the following statement on the ongoing funding crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Derik Carson Kumagai, 41, and Saykham Somphoune a/k/a, “Oat," 41, both residents of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit bribery, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
