News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Aug. 21, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KRISTEN LASCHOBER, 49, formerly of Laguna Niguel, Calif., was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -A Houston man pleaded guilty to charges that he used counterfeit credit cards and other financial access devices to steal thousands of dollars from Louisiana casinos, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was convicted in federal court today of illegally possessing a controlled substance and firearms.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Join author and historian Jack Fisher and other champions of the Sierra wilderness as they tell the story of stopping a trans-Sierra highway that would have altered the wilderness experience in the central Sierra for future generations. The program will begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Mammoth Lakes Welcome...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Former CEO and General Counsel Sentenced Yesterday.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Mario Farias Pineda, 22, of Calistoga, charging him with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute it, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two men were indicted by a federal grand jury today for allegedly using a real estate investment scheme to defraud 15 victims of more than $3 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Throughout the summer, media have reported that Lake Mead is "sinking," "shriveling" and "drying to new lows." Yes, the lake has reached a record low, but the lake is nowhere near dry. The reservoir that began filling after the construction of the Hoover Dam remains one of America's largest man-made lakes and one of the National Park Service's most popular destinations.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assateague Island National Seashore will celebrate the 98th birthday of the National Park Service by waiving its normal entrance fee of $15 on Monday, August 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Jimmy Ortiz, 33, of Cypress, has entered a guilty plea to one count of distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department announced today $17.6 million for 14 cooperative agreements with small businesses and institutions of higher education to develop and deploy efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that will help reduce petroleum use in the United States. The funding...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Superintendent John J. Donahue invites the public to celebrate the 98th birthday of the National Park Service with several free special programs planned for August 23.The National Park Service was established on Aug. 25, 1916. Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area became a national park service...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Frederick Todd Anderson and David Starks have been sentenced for an attempted robbery of a business where the business owner was carjacked, abducted, pistol-whipped, and left lying in a stream behind an abandoned house. A third defendant, Deshawn Antoine Mackey, was sentenced previously.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman was sentenced today to three years in federal prison for orchestrating a scheme that led to the fraudulent purchase of four properties worth more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: HELENA - The United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has awarded a former Montana federal prosecutor the ATF Honor Award for her work on a multi-defendant operation that convicted 22 defendants in federal court in 2012 and 2013. Marcia Hurd, a former United States Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Ramon Lugo Rentas, 50, of Providence, was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, United States Marshal Jamie A. Hainsworth and Colonel Steven G. O’DonnellSuperintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Virginia Ann Edelman a/k/a Ginger Edelman, 49, of Picayune, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 21 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. She was also ordered to pay $75,325.00 in restitution to the U. S. Social Security Administration and to perform 120 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were charged today in federal court in Boston with impersonating federal agents in connection with a scheme to defraud persons trying to obtain legal resident status in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that ROBERT BECKMANN, age 52, of Durham, North Carolina, pleaded guilty as charged yesterday before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt, to criminal infringement of a copyright, a misdemeanor, and his company, BECKMANN TECHNOLOGIES, INC., pleaded guilty to creating and selling non-authentic Mercedes-Benz diagnostic equipment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a Crab Orchard man was sentenced in federal court in Beckley for distributing oxycodone. Gene James, also known as “Butch," 44, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. James previously pled guilty in May of 2014, to distributing oxycodone to a person cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Hot Coal Road in Sophia, West Virginia.
