News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - John C. Beale, a former senior policy advisor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was sentenced today to 32 months in prison for carrying out a long-running scheme that cheated the government of nearly $900,000 in pay and expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Paula Reid, Special Agent in Charge, United States Secret Service (USSS), Miami Field Office, announce today’s sentencing of defendants Mario R. Triana Martinez, 24, of Miami, Emilio Mederos, 24, of Miami, and Francisco...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION - Colo. A leak was discovered in a nonproducing natural gas well approximately seven miles southwest of DeBeque on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Joshua Tree National Park Superintendent Mark Butler announced today that the park will explore youth-oriented residential environmental science programs in Joshua Tree National Park with NatureBridge-the largest residential environmental science education partner of the National Park Service. The potential education program will focus on teaching youth about the wonder and science of the California desert and specifically about Joshua Tree National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: CLINTON COUNTY, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA) and Clinton County District Attorney Andrew J. Wylie announced today that a unified law enforcement drug investigation resulted in the filing of Grand Jury Indictments against 61 individuals during the current term of the Clinton County Grand Jury with charges relating to the sale and or possession of controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - Winter is the perfect time to visit Everglades National Park! Spectacular opportunities abound to enjoy the great outdoors in your back yard. During south Florida’s dry season there are few mosquitoes, afternoon storms are gone and temperatures are cooler.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge Brian Crowell of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York (DEA), Richmond County District Attorney Daniel M. Donovan, Jr., New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Commissioner Ronald Goldstock of the Waterfront Commission of New York...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled the latest package in a series of proposals to overhaul America’s tax code. This staff discussion draft focuses on streamlining energy tax incentives so they are more predictable and technology-neutral.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, FL - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew yesterday resentenced Marian I. Morgan to 33 years and 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy, wire fraud, interstate/foreign transportation of stolen funds, money laundering, and filing false tax returns. The court also ordered her to pay restitution in the amount of $19,958,995.00. A federal jury found Marian I. Morgan guilty on Sept. 29, 2011, after a seventeen-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: County To Pay $2 Million. Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and Judith A. Enck, Regional Administrator, United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, today announced the settlement with Suffolk County (Suffolk) in a federal civil environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Geoffrey William Hine, who traveled to Georgia to have a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl, has been sentenced on charges of child enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Anthony J. Bruette, (age: 32), of Keshena, located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, was sentenced on Dec. 13, 2013, to 27 months imprisonment, followed by seven years on supervised release. The sentence was the result of a guilty plea by Bruette on Sept. 12, 2013, to a federal indictment charging him with sexual abuse of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Dameon Blackburn, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today on a criminal complaint charging him with production and distribution of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Kenneth Mascara, Sheriff, St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office, announce the sentencing of defendant Joshua Adams Bagala, 25, of Port Saint Lucie. At yesterday’s hearing, U.S. District Judge Donald L. Graham sentenced Bagala to ten years in prison on charges of receipt and transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - The final of 25 convicted in two separate, but similar bank robbery cases that gripped the Houston and surrounding areas has now been ordered to prison, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Stephen L. Morris, special agent in charge of the FBI in Houston. The two groups were ultimately held accountable in court for approximately 34 robberies of the area banks in 2010-2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Company Owner Also Convicted Of Mail Fraud And Making False Statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Attorney for the District of Oregon Amanda Marshall announced today that a federal indictment has been returned charging four individuals involved in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine over the Internet, conspiracy to export methamphetamine to other countries, and fifteen counts of international and domestic money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: PRAVEEN KAILAS, age 30, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by the Honorable Sarah S. Vance after pleading guilty in August to a bill of information charging him with one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government funds (18 U.S.C. § 371) and one count of theft of government funds (18 U.S.C. § 641), announced the U.S. Attorney’s Office today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Teaticket, Mass. man was sentenced today for attempted enticement of two teenage girls.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Deryl Loar, Sheriff, Indian River County Sheriff’s Office, announce the sentencing of four Vero Beach residents for their participation in a Vero Beach clandestine methamphetamine lab: Edward McElhenny, 50, Clinton Story, 30, Paul Richardson, 27, and Kelly McCartney, 36.
