News from January 2015
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today commended President Barack Obama’s proposal to expand paid sick days to more workers. Both legislators reiterated their strong support for the Healthy Families Act, a bill to let workers earn paid sick leave to use when...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jorge Melendez, 44, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture more than 100 marijuana plants, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William Skretny. The defendant was also ordered to pay a money judgement totalling $300,000, and forfeit a Suburban vehicle, a Harley Davidson motorcycle, a 36 foot speed boat, and seven firearms.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C-Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on her intention to serve as Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee when the new Congress convenes in January. Senator Murray served as Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee this past Congress and will continue to serve as a senior member of that Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Nova A. Montgomery to three years in federal prison for tax evasion and failure to file a tax return. The Court also ordered her to serve a three-year term of supervision following her incarceration, pay a $10,000 fine, and pay $338,308 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service for taxes owed during the years of the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: The case arose from a Metro Gang Task Force drug investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two New Bedford men pleaded yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston to selling heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Field Division announced that Miguel Bustamante-Conchas, 39, was sentenced late yesterday afternoon to 20 years in federal prison for his heroin trafficking conviction. He also was ordered to pay a $100,000.00 fine. Bustamante-Conchas is a legal permanent resident from Mexico who resides in Albuquerque, N.M.; he will be deported after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Arthur L. Ganadonegro, 24, was sentenced this afternoon to 144 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his aggravated child sexual abuse conviction. Ganadonegro also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today announced the Democratic members of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittees for the 114th Congress, including the subcommittee ranking members.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s goal to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40 - 45 percent from 2012 levels by 2025, a key effort in the President’s Climate Action Plan:.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a statement today following reports that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) will face serious difficulties operating effectively due to budget shortfalls this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: ( - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Richard Anderson, also known as “Mayut" and “Porter," 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is currently accepting applications for the third round of the Alaska Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program. A competitive technical assistance program that assists Alaska Native corporations and federally recognized Alaska Native governments with accelerating clean energy projects, Alaska START is aimed at achieving the following goals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Donald J. Soranno has been named the new special agent in charge (SAC) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Columbus Field Division, which encompasses the entire state of Ohio and the southern half of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Indiana, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Mary Jo Schmidbauer, age 67, of East Liverpool, Ohio, with bank fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Representative Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following joint statement after a federal district judge ruled against a Department of Labor regulation that redefined companion care under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. White Sands National Monument is proposing a change in its current entrance fees. Beginning in 2015, White Sands, one of 131 national park units that currently charges entrance fees, is authorized to change its fee rates to align with the new National Park Service rate schedule. The tentative...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that DAVID McARTHUR KING, 24, of New Bern, THOMAS LEE CUTHBERTSON, JR., 24, of Vanceboro, and KHIRY TERREL JONES, 24, of Oriental, were each sentenced resulting from their earlier guilty pleas to bank robbery and firearms charges. The charges stem from the Dec. 2, 2013 robbery of First Citizens Bank in Oriental, and the Nov. 22, 2013 robbery of TD Bank in Easley, South Carolina.
