News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Cary Dailey, 25, and Lance Demarco Harris, 21, both of Detroit, Michigan, were convicted in federal court today for prescription painkiller trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced Ernest Freeman, Jr. to three years and six months in federal prison for theft of government money and aggravated identity theft. He was also ordered to serve a three-year term of supervision following his release from prison. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 42-year-old Irving, Texas, man appeared this morning in federal court, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, and pleaded guilty to an indictment charging one count of production of child pornography and one count of enhanced penalties for registered sex offenders, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 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 the Committee’s first hearing of the 114th Congress, which will examine the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations. The hearing is entitled “Iran Nuclear Negotiations After the Second Extension: Where Are They Going? “.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Oscar J. Aguilar, 38, a Mexican citizen legally residing in Brownsville, has been sentenced to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit international money laundering, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Janice Ayala, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio. Aguilar pleaded guilty May 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: A metal plating company in Cleveland was fined $50,000 for making illegal discharges with high concentrations of metals such as chrome and zinc into the sewer system, which in turn, after treatment, discharges to Lake Erie, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Gonzales Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Anton Philip Raider, 22, of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) role in supply chain security. Since August 2007, CBP has been required to ensure that all U.S.-bound maritime cargo containers be scanned at foreign ports before being placed on vessels headed to the U.S.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction netted $4,256,301 in revenues from the sale of seven federal leases totaling 1742.18 acres in North Dakota.Herco, LLC...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Today, at a Senate Finance Committee hearing on the Obama Administration’s trade agenda, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman - the nation’s chief trade negotiator - said the renewal of bipartisan, job-creating Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) was a top priority and reiterated the President’s support for swift action...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $275,000 civil penalty against Hallmark Aviation Services, Inc. of Los Angeles, Calif., for allegedly violating drug and alcohol testing regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Kevin Charles Kaszynski (49, Fort Myers) today pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a tax fraud scheme in which she stole portions of her client’s inflated tax refunds.
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today traveled to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Representative Engel is joining President Barack Obama as part of the bipartisan delegation to offer condolences to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud, on the passing of the King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 27, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) issued the following statement in response to the Obama Administration’s Draft Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program for 2017 to 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today asked U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman to describe how new U.S. trade policies will create middle-class jobs and lift wages. Wyden also cited tough enforcement of trade laws, strong protection of a free and open Internet, and a commitment to transparency in trade debates as key components for a modern, effective U.S. trade policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Mansfield, Texas, woman appeared today in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan and pleaded guilty to one count of food stamp benefit fraud, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Obama administration for its continued campaign to shut down oil and natural gas activity in Alaska.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 27, 2015
News Release: BURLINGTON, Mass. - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $1.3 million civil penalty against United Airlines, Inc. of Chicago, Ill., for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.
