News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Feb. 23, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LESTER JOY, 34, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Michael M. Anderson, 25, of Belleville, IL, was arraigned today on a one count Indictment charging him with Possession of Prepubescent Child Pornography. The Indictment alleges that on or about September 4, 2014, Anderson knowingly possessed a digital recording which contained child pornography that...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: The exhibits stand in a city park in Cedartown, Georgia - the location where the Cherokee were held at Cedar Town Camp. They commemorate three weeks of internment in May 1838 under conditions that left many of the Cherokee very ill or dead.
By State Newswire | Feb 22, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, TENN. - Following his recent trip to Turkey, Kuwait and Iraq, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined NBC’s “Meet the Press" today to discuss the threat from ISIS and the debate Congress will be having over an authorization for the use ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 22, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a Preliminary Alternatives Outreach Period and Online Open House February 22 - March 20, 2015, for the Bering Sea-Western Interior Resource Management Plan.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued the following statement on the West Coast ports agreement.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued the following statement on the West Coast ports agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2015
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park's Tucson Mountain District (west) and Rincon Mountain District (east) are offering the opportunity for the public to join Tucson botanical experts in performing a species inventory of blooming wildflowers in Saguaro National Park.
By State Newswire | Feb 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding recent developments in Venezuela.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 20, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of more than $160 million in funding for research, education, and extension projects that address key challenges affecting U.S. agriculture production. NIFA will fund the awards through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A Midvale, Utah, man and a Henderson, Nevada, woman were convicted by a jury yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City of tax crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen of the District of Utah and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A former military contractor who ran two Kuwaiti companies during the Iraq War pleaded guilty today for paying a $15,000 bribe to an Army National Guard officer in exchange for the award of a contract to provide buses to the United States Army, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A La Vista, Nebraska, woman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska in Omaha to serve 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release for tax obstruction, filing a false claim and filing false retaliatory property liens, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: After a four-month trial, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted six members of the Devils Diciples Motorcycle Gang today, including the national president, national vice president and national warlord, for their participation in various criminal acts, including violent crimes in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Defendants Used Deception, Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Young Women into Prostitution in Orange County, California Roshaun Nakia Porter, 39, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton to a sentence of 240 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release for his role ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: A Milledgeville, Georgia, couple were found guilty of tax fraud following a three-day jury trial for skimming more than $1.5 million in cash from their business without disclosing the income, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: Fifty-Seven Individuals Previously Convicted and Sentenced as Part of This Investigation A former member of the Arizona Army National Guard was sentenced today to 52 months in prison for his role in a scheme to accept bribes from purported drug traffickers in exchange for using his military position to protect shipments of cocaine during transportation, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: The federal bank regulatory agencies requested comment on a second set of regulatory categories as part of their review to identify outdated or unnecessary regulations applied to insured depository institutions.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday, announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc., and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, both of Tokyo, Japan, to acquire up to 19.9 percent of the voting shares of The Bank of East Asia, Limited, Hong Kong S.A.R., People's Republic of China.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 20, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the application by Taiwan Cooperative Bank, Ltd., Taipei, Taiwan, to establish a branch in New York, New York.
