News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Alice Boland, age 30, of Beaufort, South Carolina, was recently ordered to be civilly committed to the custody of the Attorney General pending further court order as explained below.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Alger Women of Honor Observance will be Thursday, August 21.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on news that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) contractor USIS (U.S. Investigations Services Inc.) suffered a computer breach recently...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact of a Minor was sentenced on July 28, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA -Tracey Cota and Gary Lang have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying and receiving illegal remuneration in exchange for Medicaid patient referrals to hospitals in the Atlanta area and on Hilton Head Island, S.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury earlier today indicted Alfred J. Villalobos, of Reno, Nev., on charges of conspiracy to commit corruption offenses and to defraud the United States, engaging in a scheme to conceal material facts from the United States, and conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and 20 fellow Republican senators today sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell urging her to expand development of oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Mexico, and to open new areas offshore with great resource potential, including off the coast of Alaska and in the Atlantic Ocean in the 2017-2022 Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Howes, South Dakota, man charged with Unlawful Taking of a Bald Eagle pled guilty to the charge and was sentenced on July 31, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Veronica L. Duffy.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: “We are more confident that a below-normal season will occur because atmospheric and oceanic conditions that suppress cyclone formation have developed and will persist through the season," said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster at NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center, a division of the...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after the World Trade Organization appellate body handed a victory to the United States in a rare earths case against China, affirming a WTO dispute settlement panel’s March 2014 finding in favor of the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Faulkton, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for three counts of Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, announced that charges were brought yesterday against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that yesterday, Andrea Paris (neé Addington) (age: 30) of Marinette, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. The prison sentence is to be followed by 12 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - William Krszal, a resident of Allegheny County, was convicted of conspiring to distribute a mixture of methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, sometimes referred to as “molly", United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, August 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDWARD HOGAN, 38, and his brother, JUSTIN HOGAN, 34, both of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today to federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on July 28, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. A Kansas City area business owner has been indicted on federal bank fraud charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -A co-owner and five employees of the now closed Desperado’s Cabaret in Carencro, La., were sentenced for racketeering and drug sales that took place on the premises, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2014
News Release: Hattiesburg, Miss - Joseph C. Ziegler, Jr., 67, of Gulfport, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to misprision of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp.
