News from January 2015
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee briefing on North Korea’s nuclear, missile, and cyber capabilities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Hassan El Saddique, 34, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with stealing and converting to his own use, more than $5,000 from the Buffalo Board of Education. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An armed career criminal was sentenced today in connection with the illegal sale of three guns and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man who conspired with others to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 12, 2015, to 35 years in federal prison. Jacob William Brisbin, 28, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after an October 6, 2014, guilty plea to conspiracy to manufacture...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Pipestone National Monument Guest Speaker Series.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: FY 2015 Budget Authority: $39.67 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: OWENSBORO, Ky. - A Meade County, Kentucky man was charged in a two-count indictment with threatening, by way of a telephone, to damage and destroy with explosives, a church located in Brandenburg, Kentucky, and with threatening, by way of telephone, to damage and destroy with explosives, an apartment building located in Brandenburg, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -Superintendent Pat Kenney announced that Beaufort and Harkers Island Visitor Centers will now be closed on Sundays, starting Jan. 18, 2015 to March 30, 2015. Both Beaufort and Harkers Island Visitor Centers will remain open Monday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced his selections for the Committee’s six subcommittee chairmen and the Full Committee Vice Chairman for the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Public Affairs. COSME LOPEZ. Telephone: 602.514.7694. Mobile: 602.686-8614. Cosme.Lopez@usdoj.gov. WWW.JUSTICE.GOV/USAO/AZ. PINETOP MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS FOR ASSAULT. PHOENIX - On Jan. 12, 2015, Lloyd Tito Burnette, Jr., 33, of Pinetop, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Northern California man who defrauded 18 victims by selling website domains that he falsely claimed would generate substantial advertising revenue was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Wisconsin man was charged in federal court today with robbing a Polo, Mo., bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Dewayne K. Long, 53, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced for conspiracy to defraud the United States by filing false federal income tax returns for income tax refunds. The Honorable Joseph Bataillon sentenced Long to one year and one day in prison, three years of supervised release and restitution in the amount of $440,924.00.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bipartisan group of ten Senators, led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), today introduced the Medical Device Access and Innovation Protection Act, S. 149, a bill to repeal the medical device tax that was implemented as a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County Corrections Officer today admitted her involvement in a scheme to smuggle contraband, including cell phones, into the Essex County Correctional Facility, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a complaint charging IRINA VOROTINOV, 48, with defrauding Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company for more than $2 million in life insurance proceeds by falsely claiming that her former husband died. Her son, ALKON VOROTINOV, 25, is charged with actively...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: The nesting nēnē family that prompted closure of Hosmer Grove in Haleakalā National Park lost its young gosling. The Hosmer Grove area closed on Friday when the nēnē family was first observed. The campground, road, and trail re-opened on Saturday. The young bird was found dead on Saturday, before resource managers were able to move the family to a safer location. A necropsy will be performed to determine why the gosling died.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ryan Lowe, 20, of Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for his bank robbery conviction. Lowe will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. Lowe also was ordered to pay restitution to the victim of his crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: Our economy has experienced a major bounce back. It has rebounded from the loss of 7 million jobs in a single year beginning in 2008 and an unemployment rate that soared to 10 percent in 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015
News Release: A man who conspired with others to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine was sentenced on Jan. 12, 2015, to 35 years in federal prison.
