News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

News from April 2014


NOAA Coast Survey vessel finds 19th century shipwreck off Golden Gate Bridge — again

News Release: The story of City of Chester will be shared with the public in a future waterfront exhibit NOAA will place at the sanctuary office at Crissy Field. The office is the former U.S. life saving service station built in 1890 in response to the City of Chester incident.


Man Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison For Brutal Manslaughter Of Another Man On Nevada Indian Colony In December 2011

News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who killed another man with a shotgun on the Battle Mountain Indian Colony in Lander County, Nev., in December 2011 was sentenced on April 21, 2014, to 30 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Daniel G. Bogden.


Yosemite - Gathering of Spirit Film Debut

News Release: Carlsbad, New Mexico and Salt Flats, Texas - To commemorate Earth Day (April 22) and National Park Week (April 19-26) the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Carlsbad Caverns National Park invite everyone for a presentation of a Ken Burns' documentary, "Yosemite - A Gathering of Spirit," on Saturday, April 26 at 6 p.m. at the Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, 481 West Fox Street, Carlsbad, NM 88220, 575/887-0276.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander ordered yesterday the forfeiture of $45,816,817.84, the remaining value of over $86.3 million in e-gold, Ltd. (EGL ) accounts seized by the government in 2011. In 2012, Judge Hollander ordered the forfeiture of over $10.8 million in the EGL...


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault on a Federal Officer was sentenced on April 17, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy.


Five Charged In Identity Theft Scheme With Thousands Of Victims

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Five individuals from around the United States have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Clarence L. Rhodes, age 37, of Rock Hill, South Carolina pled guilty as charged today in federal court. Rhodes plead guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United ...


Information: Federal Court Arraignments

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.


News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that three men who were indicted by a federal grand jury on Sept. 17, 2013, for Passing and Making Counterfeit United States Currency have been sentenced.


Bryan Woman Heads To Prison In Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

News Release: HOUSTON - Yolanda Nowlin, 42, has been ordered to federal prison for 11 years following her multiple convictions in relation to a large health care fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury in Houston convicted Nowlin Sept. 4, 2013, following seven days of trial and less than three hours of deliberations.


News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that the Pavement Improvement Project and the McDade Trail Bridge Replacement Project will both begin in early May. The contracts for the work were awarded last fall to Team Henry for the road project and to Kovilic Construction Company for the bridge project.


News Release: Defendant Brandon “Fresh" Solomon was prosecuted as part of Charleston’s West Side Drug Market Intervention initiative.


Doctor Pleads Guilty To Prescribing Drugs For Sex, Money

News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Dr. Joseph Ngui Mwau Ndolo, 60, of Fairhope, Alabama pleaded guilty to three federal drug charges. Ndolo, an internal medicine physician, ran a “pill mill" from 2008 to 2013 out of his private clinic, Premier...


District Man Sentenced To Four Years In Prison For September 2013 Credit Union Robbery- Defendant Fled On Metro Train Following Robbery -

News Release: WASHINGTON - Norman Ellis, 54, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to four years in prison for robbing a credit union in September 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI=s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).


Amherst Restaurant Owner Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Income Tax

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ravi Sabharwal, 58, of Williamsville, N.Y., pleaded guilty plea to filing a false tax return before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum sentenced of three years in prison, a fine of $100,000 or both.


News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, made the following statement regarding the Obama Administration's commitment to scientific integrity, specifically concerning the data underlying the development of significant, costly air regulations by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).


News Release: Memphis, TN - Daniel Puckett, 58, of Nashville, TN, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Memphis on one count of sending threatening interstate communications via the U.S. Postal Service, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.


Indictment Unsealed Charging Pennsylvania Man And Two Additional Individuals With Conspiracy To Illegally Export Restricted Chemical Laboratory Equipment To Syria

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security, Office of Export Enforcement announced today the unsealing of an indictment...


Four Defendants Sentenced In Stolen Identity Tax Refund Scheme Resulting In Millions Of Dollars In Fraudulent Activity

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), George L. Piro, Special Agent in...


News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Andrighetto Produce Inc., operating in San Francisco, Calif., has posted a $250,000 cash surety agreement.