News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Aniruddha Sherbow, 44, whose last known address was in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for making a series of threats against Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, U.S. Representative for the 2nd District of Hawaii.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will begin its annual winter restrictions on motorized travel north of Kremmling in the Wolford Mountain Travel Management Area Dec. 15 to help reduce stress on wintering big game herds. These restrictions to motorized travel will remain in effect through April 15 in most areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - An armed drug trafficker was sentenced today to serve 57 years in prison for his involvement in a decade-long cocaine-trafficking conspiracy in Newport News, Virginia.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a request for ideas and feedback from the public on graduate medical education financing. The leaders write, “Given the importance of graduate medical education, we would like your thoughts on GME financing, federal program governance and structure, and how it might be improved or restructured to better meet the country’s health professional needs in both the short and long terms."
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a request for ideas and feedback from the public on graduate medical education financing. The leaders write, “Given the importance of graduate medical education, we would like your thoughts on GME financing, federal program governance and structure, and how it might be improved or restructured to better meet the country’s health professional needs in both the short and long terms."
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: Pipe Spring, USA - Pipe Spring National Monument is proposing a possible fee increase to take place in 2015. The current park entrance fees have been in place since 2005. Since that time, the standard entrance fee as paid on a walk-in basis at the park visitor center, has been $5.00 per person. Since...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Ronald Lamont Wilson, a/k/a “Papa Ron," 41, a longtime resident of Norfolk, Virginia, who was recently living in Orlando, Florida, was sentenced today to 160 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Revere woman pleaded guilty today to fraudulently receiving over $88,000 in disability payments and rental assistance benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Eduardo Zazueta Garcia, 28, of Delhi, pleaded guilty today to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, issued the following statement after the full Senate confirmed Jeffery M. Baran with a vote of 52-40 to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a term ending June 30, 2018.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: The winter season officially begins Monday, December 15 in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway (JDR Parkway). New this winter in the JDR Parkway is the availability of overnight lodging, dining, and saloon. These services will be provided by Headwaters Lodge &...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: A Miami licensed nursing assistant was sentenced today to serve 150 months in prison for participating in a $200 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent billings by American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a mental health company headquartered in Miami.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: St. Augustine, FL -The National Park Service is pleased to announce the annual Castillo de San Marcos National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS), National Capital Region Office is one of 39 recipients of a 2014 America's Best Idea grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Ryan Lopez Bernardez was arraigned today on charges that he violated the Endangered Species Act by transporting two endangered Asian Arowana fish, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Special Agent in Charge Jill Birchell.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and the Obed Wild and Scenic River are two of only a few National Park Service units legislated to allow hunting. Wild hogs may be hunted with weapons legal for whatever season is open through Feb. 28, 2015, in both Tennessee and Kentucky. A permit...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DANIEL BONVENTRE, the former Director of Operations for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court today to 10 years in prison for his role in Madoff’s multibillion-dollar...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - A member of a drug trafficking and money laundering organization operating out of Mexico from 2002-2008 has been convicted, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Richard Garcia-Sanchez, 40, of Mexico City, Mexico, pleaded guilty today for his roles in these long-term drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Michel Lermos-Hernandez, the alleged ring leader of a massive credit card fraud and identity theft conspiracy, has been arrested after more than a year as a fugitive. He was first charged by complaint on May 23, 2013, and was subsequently...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TCHAMY YALA, a citizen of Guinea Bissau, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States. YALA was arrested...
