News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committee Members Urge Administration to #KeepThePromise to Seniors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Was Paid to Smuggle Marijuana and Cell Phones into Federal Pretrial Detention Facility.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Paul Ryan Op-Ed: A Chance to Strengthen Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Summer camps are legally required to make reasonable accommodations to accept children with disabilities, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This evening, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following reports of Saudi Arabia’s military operation in neighboring Yemen...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), senior Democrat on the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee today called for more funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She also highlighted the agency’s proposal to better monitor the amount and impact of...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform unanimously passed H.R. 653, the FOIA Oversight and Implementation Act, which was introduced by Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. Darrell Issa to strengthen our nation’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Roy Antigua (55, Miami) to one year and one day in federal prison for making a false statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the federal government and for wrongfully possessing federal government identification badges. The Court also ordered a money judgment in the amount of $114,000, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Antigua pleaded guilty on January 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Tyronne Seams, 29, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence on Tuesday to his role in a September 2013 armed robbery at a Woonsocket residence, during which time he and an accomplice allegedly fired their weapons at the occupants, assaulted at least one person...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jonathan Delgado, 26, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted following a seven week jury trial of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations conspiracy, was sentenced to life in prison plus five years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MOHAMMED ALAZZAM was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 78 months in prison, and to restitution in the amount of $36,195,000. ALAZZAM was sentenced for organizing and leading a conspiracy to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger today sentenced Bobby Lee Smith (48, Jacksonville) to 96 months in federal prison for attempting to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 31, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SALVATORE FERRAIOLI, 33, of Staten Island, New York, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a federal tax charge stemming from his involvement in an illegal sports gambling operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Rashard Jones, Octavious Hasting, Xzavius Ogletree, Tony Anthony Goodman, David Combs, Demetrice Coggins, and Shedrick Howard have been charged in two separate federal indictments with illegal firearms dealing, possession of firearms by convicted felons, illegal possession of “sawed-off" shotguns and rifles, and distribution of narcotics.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today held a legislative mark-up on eight bills, including the Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2015 introduced this week by Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03). The bills all passed out of Committee by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Senate, House Leaders Introduce SGR Replacement Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On March 25, 2015, Jay A. Ochanpaugh, age 50, of St. Charles, Iowa, and formerly of Ames, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 12 months and one day in federal prison for filing a false income tax return for the calendar year 2009, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Defendant Saw Victim With Cash at Nearby Convenience Store.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).The following businesses and individuals are currently restricted from operating in the produce...
