News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Pedro Luis Infantes (47, Ocala) and his son, Luis Rafael Infantes (21, Elizabethtown, KY), to 21 months in federal prison for theft of government property. Both pleaded guilty last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Virginia man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a multi-million dollar, multi-state conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man charged with Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty to and was sentenced on Jan. 20, 2015, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Justin Katz Possessed And Distributed Child Pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House passed H.R. 30, the Save American Workers Act, introduced by Rep. Todd Young (R-IN), which would repeal the 30-hour definition of “full-time employment" in Obamacare and restore the traditional 40-hour definition. Upon passage, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler announced today that an indictment had been returned charging two men with burglarizing the post office in Sand Point, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement at the first Committee proceedings of the 114th Congress, “Moving America Forward." The meeting is focused on the state of the U.S. economy and policies that can promote job creation and economic growth.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: The Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta (R-PA), will hold a hearing next week on saving taxpayer dollars by lessening the impacts of disasters and strategies for speeding disaster recoveries.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today announced five awards to expand access to credit for rural businesses, particularly small businesses in poor and underserved areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -Effective immediately, Jaggar Museum in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is open seven days a week, from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., and Kīlauea Visitor Center is also open daily, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Hawai'i Pacific Parks Association bookstores within both visitor facilities have the same hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - SABAHADDIN AKMAN, the owner and manager of a Turkish drug wholesaler, was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment and fined $150,000 for smuggling misbranded and adulterated cancer treatment drugs into the United States, including multiple shipments of Altuzan® (the Turkish version of Avastin®) that he sent from Turkey to Chesterfield, Missouri. Akman also paid a forfeiture of $150,000 before sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh of the District of Colorado and Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle of the FBI’s Denver Division, and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, announced that Shannon Conley, 19, of Arvada, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERRY GRUENBAUM, 59, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed the first piece of legislation of the 114th Congress, the Hire More Heroes Act of 2015 (H.R. 22), with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill would help veterans find work by exempting them from one of Obamacare’s mandates on small businesses. Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: Over 150 years ago this month, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation abolishing slavery. Sadly, however, the pernicious practice continues. In the past year alone, our Offices have prosecuted twenty persons for engaging in human trafficking - modern day slavery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: A novel Portable Vacuum Standard (PVS) has been added to the roster of NIST's Standard Reference Instruments (SRI). It is now available for purchase as part of NIST's ongoing commitment to disseminate measurement standards and thereby reduce the need for the expensive and time-consuming process of transporting customer instruments to NIST for calibration.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 23, 2015
News Release: A storm system in the north central region of the Pacific Ocean is generating large swells that will lead to large breakers along the shoreline. This will result in high surf conditions along the coast for most of Friday through Saturday evening.
