News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two former police officers with the Police of Puerto Rico were sentenced to serve 63 and 60 months in prison for attempting to extort a defendant and soliciting bribe payments of $50,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HARRY RAYMOND SOUCY, 61, of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to three years of probation, the first six months of which SOUCY must spend in community confinement...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: A naturally occurring fungus may prove useful in the fight against Palmer amaranth, an aggressive southern weed that can grow at the rate of two inches a day and outcompete corn, cotton, soybean and other crops for resources, potentially reducing their yields.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the director of a program that provided a home for disabled persons in Higginsville, Mo., has been indicted by a federal grand jury for embezzling more than $385,000 from the organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement regarding the Committee’s upcoming field hearings on the Affordable Care Actin North Carolina, Georgia, Texas, and Arizona...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Last Friday park wildlife biologists made the difficult decision to euthanize an elk. The decision to euthanize an animal of any kind in the park is never made lightly. Elk are iconic symbols in the Smokies, but they are also dangerous wild animals. The park provides education about elk behavior and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands Co-sponsors Human Trafficking Training in Palau.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Wash. - A Bureau of Reclamation employee was transported by air to Harborview Medical Center with injuries after a fire Monday in the John W. Keys III Pump Generating Plant which is believed to have been caused by a switch gear failure. Another employee is being treated locally for smoke inhalation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Steven Warren, 20, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to six years in prison on charges stemming from an assault that took place in June 2013 and a home invasion that occurred several weeks later, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: FreshPoint, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Sysco Corporation, has paid the United States $4.2 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States in connection with the sales of fresh fruit and vegetables to the Department of Defense and other Department of Defense customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Salvador Ibarra De-Alba, 48, of Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has entered a plea of guilty for his role in a conspiracy to transport five kilograms or more of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: “Strategies for Justice - Collaboration in the Western Pacific".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: "Strategies for Justice - Collaboration in the Western Pacific".
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, applauded Senate passage of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, a bipartisan bill that would improve consumer drug safety. The bill included several provisions, with minor modifications, from legislation Cummings introduced, The Gray Market Drug Reform and Transparency Act of 2013 (H.R. 1958).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Benjamin Daniel DeHaan has been sentenced on charges arising out of a scheme to defraud more than 50 clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding was sentenced on Nov. 14, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man has been sentenced to two years on federal probation for helping a former officer of the Wichita Police Department in a scheme to bribe a witness in hopes of keeping the officer from losing her job, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. He already spent five months in jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Edwin Cheromiah, 28, pleaded guilty this morning to assaulting his intimate partner under a plea agreement that requires him to serve a 72-month federal prison sentence. Cheromiah’s guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Police Chief Vincent M. Mariano of the Acoma Tribal Police Department.
