News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge William P. Offord, announced that MICHAEL S. VASATURO, 56, of...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voiced guarded optimism about the decision by the Forest Service to move forward with the long-promised Big Thorne Project in the Tongass National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Aug. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAQUAN PRICE, 23, of New Haven, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Jimmy Stanley Brizuela, 43, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of illegal re-entry after removal/deportation, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A jury convicted Brizuela, a citizen of El Salvador, on May 13, 2014, following a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Catyondia Ballard, 48, a former employee of the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue, was sentenced today to 16 weekends in jail, to be followed by 180 days of home detention, for the theft of over $114,000 from the bank account of a retired military member, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Blanche L. Bruce, Interim Inspector General for the District of Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Celebrate the park's 50th Anniversary by attending any of the three FREE events occurring over the Labor Day holiday weekend. "Even though the summer season is coming to the close, it doesn't mean you can't get outdoors and encounter the unique Ozark cultural history and night sky this long weekend," states Superintendent Bill Black.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two managers of McLean, Virginia-based Integrated Academics and a former admissions official for Strayer University have been convicted of conspiring to create fraudulent transcripts so that foreign students would appear eligible to retain their student visas in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that JEFFREY WILSON, age 29; JACOBI BOYD, a/k/a “CO," age 22; ALFRED COBBINS, a/k/a “AL," age 22; JAWAN FORTIA, a/k/a “TITTIE," age 21; DEONTRE HILLS, a/k/a “SOULJA," age 22; DEDRICK KEELEN, a/k/a “ROY," age 21; RUBEN GEIGER, a/k/a “RUE," age 21; SHAWN...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Sandy Springs, Ga.: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area will celebrate the 98th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal parking fee of $3 on Monday, August 25.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: FREE ADMISSION TO LAKE MEAD NRA AUG 25, CELEBRATE NPS' 98th BIRTHDAY.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Special Events on September 3 to Commemorate Landmark Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Defendant Admits Starting Fire Because Her Firefighter Friends Were Bored.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Stonewall, Texas-Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park will celebrate the 106th anniversary of President Johnson's birth on Wednesday, August 27. This free celebration begins at 10:00 a.m. with the laying of a wreath on his gravesite in the Johnson family cemetery on the LBJ Ranch. Following the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of six separate indictments charging Rodney Griffin (33, Orlando), Felix Warren (40, Orlando), Dave Stephen Alfred (27, Orlando), Junior Jeffrey Alexis (20, Orlando), Donte Antwan Gedeon (24, Orlando), and James Edward ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that Tarrek Williams, 27, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Chief Judge William M. Skretny, to bank fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that three men were sentenced today in Northwest Arkansas to a total of 31 ½ years in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Timothy L. Brooks handed down the sentences in federal court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Carlos Luna, 45, of Corpus Christi, has been handed a 36-month sentence for his conviction of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Luna entered a plea of guilty on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process of seeking public input ahead of a #CommActUpdate by releasing a white paper focused on the Universal Service Fund. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 22, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge G. Kendall Sharp sentenced Luis A. Rivera (47, Orlando) to 27 years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Rivera pleaded guilty on May 28, 2014. He was sentenced on Aug. 20, 2014.
