News from April 2014
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va.-In the summer of 1864, the families and loved ones of almost 100,000 American servicemen received news that their husbands, sons, fathers, and friends had been killed or wounded on a Virginia battlefield, or were missing-captured or maybe one of the countless unidentified dead hastily buried...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: All national parks across the country will celebrate National Park Week, April 19-27, 2014, using the theme, “Go Wild!" You can join the festivities at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) to learn about the newly designated Wilderness and why it’s important. There is something...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester today to participating in a scheme to steal more than $110,000 from the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A North Carolina woman, formerly of Boston, was convicted for stealing more than $179,000 in benefit payments from the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. A Junction City man pleaded guilty Monday to a federal child pornography charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A North Hollywood woman who worked in the health care industry was sentenced this afternoon to 76 months in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that submitted nearly $25 million in fraudulent bills to Medicare for services and supplies that were medically unnecessary and sometimes were never provided.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The principal of a Pennsylvania construction company today admitted his role in an employee kickback scheme that occurred during a reconstruction project at the Ft. Dix military base in Burlington County, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Harold Thomas Barker, 59, of Rexburg, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawfully transferring firearms and distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on April 14, 2014, Orlen Francis Smith, Jr., 26, of Bismarck, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 14 years in prison for voluntary manslaughter, assault resulting in serious bodily injury and assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joseph Romano, 51, of Levittown, N.Y., was sentenced to two terms of life in prison for conspiring to murder the Assistant United States Attorney and the United States District Judge involved in his prior prosecution for fraud. The life terms of imprisonment were ordered to run consecutively to Romano’s 15-year sentence for fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: BOATLOAD OF KIDS ACTIVITIES ON JUNIOR RANGER DAYAT SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that former child psychiatrist Gary Jefferson Byrd, 72, of Opelousas, La., was sentenced on Friday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 15 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for possessing and receiving child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: On April 22, at the Bear Valley Visitor Center, from 10 am to 2 pm, Point Reyes National Seashore will host an electronic waste (e-waste) recycling collection, joining thousands of local organizers holding recycling events across the country to celebrate Earth Day, the only nationally recognized day dedicated to promoting and celebrating planet Earth and the protection of its resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: Robbery occurred at drug dealer’s 10th Street apartment in Huntington.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Demetrio Vallejo, 41, of Edcouch, has been ordered to federal prison for nearly five years as a result of his conviction of smuggling undocumented aliens, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Vallejo pleaded guilty Oct. 11, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Tracy Dunn, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Office of Law Enforcement, announce that Joseph Franko, 35...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a West Plains, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. James A. Harrison, 53, of West Plains...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Utah and the Department of Justice announced Monday that an information has been filed charging Robert Keller, 70, with interfering with the housing rights of three members of an interracial family because of the family members’ races and because the family members were living in Hurricane, Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley joins the IRS and other federal agencies to raise awareness about a growing problem of identity theft as it relates to tax refund fraud. As the federal tax filing deadline approaches, extensions are granted and the state tax season continues. The Western District of Louisiana U.S. Attorney’s Office has also prosecuted individuals for related tax crimes.
