News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Southwest Rice Mill Inc. president and owner Frederick Marque De La Houssaye, 60, of Crowley, La., pleaded guilty to one...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area announces a 45-minute ranger-led interpretive program at Blue Heron campground about the wild hog. Come learn how this domesticated free-roaming animal of centuries past got here, some bits of history about Charit Creek Lodge (formerly known as "the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - HAROLD CHILDERS, 36, and LAVONTAY GATSON, 20, both of Savannah, were arrested on federal charges last week on charges arising from two separate bomb threats. CHILDERS was charged with making a false statement to FBI agents in connection with a Sept. 18, 2012 bomb threat at Southern States Phosphates on East President Street in Savannah. GATSON was charged with telephoning a Wal-Mart in Savannah and making a bomb threat on March 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a Federal Grand Jury returned an indictment charging RAYMOND CHRISTOPHER REGGIE, 51, of Mandeville, Louisiana with five counts of wire fraud and six counts of money laundering, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 and 1957.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Company involved in scheme to bilk BrickStreet Mutual Insurance out of millions in insurance premiums also structured over $2 million in cash out of Bank of Mingo.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: 153 Defendants Have Been Charged to Date as Part of the Southern District of Florida Securities and Investment Fraud Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: NEW RECYCLING PROGRAM AT LAKE MEAD NRA 'AMAZING SUCCESS'.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted his role in a shotgun carjacking in Little Falls, N.J., on Oct. 30, 2011, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: There are possible elevated levels of air pollutants, including sulfur dioxide, in Eagle, AK. The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) released information that the reports of poor air quality may be due to shale rock oil fires in the vicinity. The town is also impacted by smoke from...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: MARTIN VELLOZZI, age 56, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, pleaded guilty as charged today before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to one-count Bill of Information charging him with mail fraud for his role in creating and selling non-authentic Merceds-Benz diagnostic equipment, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, John P. Kacavas announced that David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, pleaded guilty today to eight counts of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and eight counts of tampering with a consumer product.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -- Ryan C. Murphy, 32, of Brandon, Mississippi, pled guilty in U.S. District Court today to killing a Louisiana Black Bear, a federally protected animal under the Endangered Species Act, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced the indictment today of a Boise man currently living in Shreveport, Louisiana, for the March 2013 robbery of a Boise bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Insurance executive Michael Van Gilder, age 45, of Denver, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Wiley Y. Daniel to serve 5 years’ probation with the first 6 months in home detention with electronic monitoring, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park advises the public that LaFayette Road in Chickamauga Battlefield will be closed on September 14 and 15, 2013. The closure will be in effect due to special programs taking place across LaFayette Road as part of commemorative activities for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Control of this road was vital to both Union and Confederate troops trying to take control of Chattanooga, Tennessee, in September 1863.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eugene Weatherford, 60, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 14 months incarceration on a federal charge stemming from the theft of more than $340,000 in government money, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Michael McGill, Special Agent in Charge from the Social Security Administration’s Office of Inspector General, and Patrick E. McFarland, Inspector General for the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Middle District of North Carolina. Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013. Used computer to solicit sex with a minor. GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Burlington man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for coercion and enticement of a minor, announced United States Attorney...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) made the following statement in response to allegations that Lisa Jackson, the former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator who resigned late last year, violated federal transparency laws by using her personal email to conduct official business.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - The Emerald Mountain Special Recreation Management Area west of Steamboat Springs will be closed this Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 17-18, for the Steamboat Stinger Mountain Bike Race and Marathon.
