Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 18, 2014. A Houston investment manager was sentenced yesterday to serve 56 months in prison for orchestrating a $72 million investment fraud scheme resulting in approximately $40 million in losses to investors. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Carlie[Read More…]
Author: Gary Kopycinski
White House Press Briefing by Josh Earnest, Dec. 17, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014 – 2:08 P.M. EST MR. EARNEST: Good afternoon, everybody. It’s a pleasure to be standing before you on what is a genuinely historic day here at the White House. We’re starting a little late in order to give Mr. Gross an opportunity to make his appearance[Read More…]
Drug Policy Alliance: President Obama Commutes Sentences for 8 in Drug Cases; Many Others Deserve Similar Relief
Congress Should Reform Mandatory Minimum Laws Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today President Obama commuted the sentences of eight federal inmates convicted of non-violent drug offenses. Deputy Attorney General James Cole released a statement saying that the eight individuals “were sentenced under outdated and unfair laws,” and “their punishments did not[Read More…]
Triton College and Roosevelt University Announce Innovative Degree Completion Program
Pictured above are those participating in the formal signing, including (front row, from left to right) : Doug Olson, vice president of Academic and Student Affairs at Triton College; Douglas Knerr, executive vice president and provost at Roosevelt University; Roosevelt University President Chuck MIddleton; and (back row, from left to right): Henry [Read More…]
Center for Constitutional Rights Joins Criminal Complaint in Germany Against Bush-Era Architects of Torture
Germany’s Chief Federal Prosecutor must investigate former CIA boss Tenet, former Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and others – and should not wait until they are on German soil. BERLIN—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights joined a criminal complaint filed by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and[Read More…]
Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Arizona to Deny Driver’s Licenses to Immigrant Youth
Supreme Court Rules That DREAMers Can Apply for Licenses Pending Its Review of State’s Appeal Request Washington, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014. Immigrant youth will be allowed to receive driver’s licenses in Arizona while the Supreme Court considers whether or not to hear an appeal of a Ninth Circuit ruling in[Read More…]
Statement by Secretary of State Kerry on the Announcement of Cuba Policy Changes
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2014. Also avaliable in Spanish. I was a seventeen year old kid watching on a black and white television set when I first heard an American President talk of Cuba as an “imprisoned island.” For five and a half decades since, our policy toward Cuba has remained[Read More…]
14 Indicted in Connection with New England Compounding Center and Nationwide Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. A 131-count criminal indictment was unsealed today in Boston in connection with the 2012 nationwide fungal meningitis outbreak, the Justice Department announced. Barry J. Cadden, owner and head pharmacist of New England Compounding Center (NECC) and NECC’s supervisory pharmacist Glenn A. Chin were charged with 25[Read More…]
Owner of Dietary Supplement Company Pleads Guilty to Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Adulterate Dietary Supplements
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in relation to a scheme in which he directed the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements sold by his company,[Read More…]
President Obama Grants Commutations and Pardons, Dec. 17, 2014
WASHINGTON, D.C. –(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2014. Today President Barack Obama granted clemency to twenty individuals, consisting of eight commutations and twelve pardons. The President granted commutations of sentence to the following eight individuals: Sidney Earl Johnson, Jr. – Mobile, AL Offense: Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine[Read More…]
