Day: December 12, 2014

Remarks by Secretary of State Kerry with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Dec. 12, 2014

Bogota, Columbia–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014. MODERATOR: (Via interpreter) Good morning, everyone. Welcome. We are going to listen to the statements by the President of the Republic Juan Manuel Santos Calderon and the Secretary of State of the United States of America Mr. John Kerry. Mr. President. PRESIDENT SANTOS: (Via interpreter) Good[Read More…]

State Department Briefing by Jen Psaki, Dec. 12, 2014

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing SECRETARY KERRY’S TRAVEL MIDDLE EAST PEACE AFGHANISTAN PAKISTAN HAITI PERU CUBA ISIL/INDIA/SYRIA/RUSSIA/YEMEN/SAUDI ARABIA UKRAINE RUSSIA/INDIA TRANSCRIPT: 2:06 p.m. EST MS. PSAKI: Hi, everyone. Okay. I just have two quick items for all of you at the top. The Secretary is on travel[Read More…]

Attorney General Holder Delivers Remarks at Regional Roundtable Meeting in Chicago on Building Community Trust

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014. Good afternoon.  It’s a pleasure to be back in Chicago on such an unseasonably warm day. I want to thank Mayor [Rahm] Emanuel and Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy for welcoming me to this great city, as well as our outstanding U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of[Read More…]

Cicero Man Admits Mailing Fake Anthrax/Ricin Letters

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Brian Daniel Norton, age 59, of Cicero, New York, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Utica to two federal felony counts of conveying false information and hoaxes, according to United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.  Norton faces a maximum possible sentence of five[Read More…]

Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Reserve Sentenced to Five Years in Prison

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. The former chief technology officer of Liberty Reserve was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business that processed more than $16 billion through Liberty Reserve’s digital currency system.  The Court found that Marmilev understood the illegal[Read More…]

Former Anderson, California, Police Officer Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Sexually Assaulting a Woman

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Former Anderson, California, police officer Bryan Robert Benson, 30, of Shasta Lake, was sentenced today in federal court to five years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by sexually assaulting her while she was[Read More…]

Three Colombian Nationals Sentenced to Prison for the Kidnapping and Murder of DEA Agent Terry Watson

Two Additional Colombian Nationals Also Plead Guilty For Their Roles Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Three Colombian nationals were sentenced to decades in prison today in the Eastern District of Virginia for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James “Terry” Watson in Bogotá,[Read More…]

Former St. Bernard Deputy Sheriff and Former Saints Player Indicted For Drug Distribution and Obstruction Charges

LOUISIANA–(ENEWSPF)–December 12, 2014. U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite, announced that BRANDON LICCIARDI, age 29 of Meraux, Louisiana, and DARREN SHARPER, age 39, formerly of New Orleans, were charged today in a six-count Indictment.  LICCIARDI and SHARPER were charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Alprazolam, Diazepam and Zolpidem with intent to commit[Read More…]

The Department of Justice Releases Additional Documents Concerning Collection Activities Authorized by President George W. Bush Shortly After the Attacks of September 11, 2001

Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 12, 2014. Today the Department of Justice, in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other elements of the Intelligence Community, is releasing six Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”) documents related to surveillance activities originally authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the[Read More…]

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