News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation has announced that a Funding Opportunity Announcement for the Pacific Northwest Region's Water Conservation Field Services Program is now available. The grant opportunity is for cost-share funding for water conservation activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Rite Aid Corporation has paid the United States $2.99 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by inappropriately using gift cards as inducements, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former president of a Middlesex County, New Jersey, investment company was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for defrauding investors out of more than $250,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Leonard Dillon, 58, of Bim, Boone County, West Virginia was sentenced in federal court in Charleston today to eight years in federal prison for distributing heroin in Boone County. Dillon previously pleaded guilty in August of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Stole Priority Mail Parcels Containing More Than 50 Kilograms Of Marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher Marcinkowski, 28, of Dunkirk, N.Y., who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 78 months in jail, by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of CHARLES MICHAEL COLES, 43, and others, for conspiring to defraud an Illinois-based food packaging and processing company for more than $1.8 million. COLES was employed as a buyer/inventory coordinator for the Illinois-based company...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher Marcinkowski, 28, of Dunkirk, N.Y., who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, was sentenced to 78 months in jail, by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: The Catoctin Mountain Park Visitor Center will close on Wednesdays beginning Dec. 3, 2014 to increase efficiency and reduce rising energy costs. The closures will continue through March 25, 2015 when the Visitor Center will return to a seven day operation. As Wednesdays are the lowest visitation day, impact to visitors will be negligible.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Yosemite National Park's waterfalls are flowing again due to two days of significant rainfall in the Yosemite area. Waterfalls such as Yosemite Falls, Bridalveil Fall, and Cascade Fall are going full force due to recent storms. Snow levels remain high and roads leading into Yosemite Valley are open and clear.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that PATRICIA TATE, age 50, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Today the White House Council on Native American Affairs Energy Subgroup launched a new Federal Grant, Loan, and Technical Assistance Programs for Tribal Energy Development online tool that provides a centralized repository of federal funding and technical assistance programs that can support energy project development for Tribes and Alaska Native villages and corporations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Katy, Texas couple who owned two mortgage service businesses in Henderson, Nev., have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a mortgage fraud scheme that caused over $30 million in losses to federally insured financial institutions, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Bryant Smith, age 26, of Baltimore, to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for robbery and using a gun in furtherance of the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for conspiring to distribute 5,000 oxycodone pills, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: Additional Funds Support Broadband and Infrastructure Development in Indian Country
By USDA Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their cooperators have developed nutritious new potatoes varieties with red and purple flesh and skin. All potatoes contain an assortment of nutrients and other health-promoting compounds, and the colored-flesh potato varieties contain anthocyanins and carotenoids. The amount and type depend on the potato variety. These delicious-and colorful-new potatoes are now available to consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CHARLIE ENGLISH, age 33, a resident of LaPlace, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud relating to fraudulent applications he made or caused to be made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (GCCF) for financial assistance during the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Robert Mulgrew, 57, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for lying about ticket fixing at Philadelphia’s former Traffic Court. A federal jury, on July 23, 2014, found Mulgrew, a former traffic court judge, guilty of committing perjury before the federal grand jury investigating the case.
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the imprisonment of Alan Gross in Cuba...
