News from December 2014
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today addressed the need for balance within the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Colette D. Honorable to be a member of the independent agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Defendant intimidated witness in trial of Killeen brothers convicted of distributing close to 30 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department announced today up to $7 million for two projects aimed at developing and demonstrating ways to reduce the cost of delivering bioenergy feedstocks to biorefineries. Examples of bioenergy feedstocks include corn stover, switchgrass, and woody biomass. By investing in this type of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mark Saile, 57, of Rochester, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with mail and wire fraud, and identity theft, in connection with a scheme in which the defendant allegedly defrauded his brother of almost $1,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Andrew Jeremiah, 78, and his brother, Bruce Jeremiah, 72, of Cranston, R.I., owners and operators of Jeremiah Motors Corp., and Removal Services and Green Energy, in Central Falls, R.I., were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today for conspiring to sell and transport used cooking oil stolen from restaurants in Rhode Island and Massachusetts to a processing plant in New Hampshire for processing to animal feed and biofuel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A previously convicted federal bank robber, most recently living in Brockton, was charged today with robbing five banks and attempting to rob a sixth.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CYRUS CASBY, age 29, from Marrero, Louisiana, was sentenced today following his conviction at trial for arson resulting in death and injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Deputy used excessive force on two occasions while on duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JERRY ATHEY, age 56, DAVID LOWE, age 48, and TERRY CASTILOW, age 48, all of Bogalusa, Louisiana, were sentenced yesterday for their roles in a scheme to defraud the Louisiana Workforce Commission of unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JANET SMITH, age 44, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Jose Misael Ayala-Talavera, 20, Marcos Solano-Farias, 31, and Carlos Cerda-Carpio, 40, Mexican nationals, were sentenced today on charges of conspiring to unlawfully manufacture with intent to distribute more than 1,000 marijuana plants, illegal possession of a firearm, and damage to government property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The defendants appeared today before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill at the federal courthouse in Boise.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Lee McDaniel Parker, age 33, from Macon, Georgia, was sentenced to serve nine years (108 months) in prison following his earlier plea of guilty to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announces that SHAEEM GRADY(A/K/A SHAHEEM GRADY) was found guilty of three felony offenses following a three day jury trial in federal court in Syracuse: Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base, in violation of Title 18, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: In El Paso, federal and state authorities have arrested the owner and two employees of ERENE, Inc., (ERENE) for their alleged roles in an estimated $100 million trade based money laundering scheme announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Tom Hernandez, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today that it has obtained a summary judgment for fraud in the filing of a fraudulent claim in a nationwide class-action lawsuit in which Native American producers claimed discrimination in the handling of their agriculture loans by the Farm Services Agency (FSA) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, December 4, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RYAN RUSSOW, 29, of Milford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment today against William Glenn Green, 48, of Sacramento, charging him with assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - The United States Attorney’s Office has clarified its Feb. 18, 2014 press release concerning a civil settlement dated Feb. 14, 2014 with medical billing company Engage Medical, Inc., its owner Sanjay Puri and three medical practices. The parties agreed to pay a total of $3,340,979 to settle civil claims that they had overbilled the Government for nuclear stress tests.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, welcomed Senate passage of his bipartisan legislation to extend the 1958 U.S.-U.K. Mutual Defense Agreement to allow continued bilateral nuclear security cooperation.
