News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - On Friday, Dec. 5, a new contemporary art exhibit melds ancient Native American traditions to showcase history from a modern point of view at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores. The juried art show features works by students, alumni, faculty and staff from the Institute of American Indian Arts community in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - Joel Perrin Robinson has been arraigned on federal drugs and weapons charges in relation to the shooting of a DEA agent while a search warrant was being executed at his home on Oct. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Isherman Tafari (32, New York) has pleaded guilty to importing 5 kilograms or more of cocaine into the United States. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC - Joel Perrin Robinson has been arraigned on federal drugs and weapons charges in relation to the shooting of a DEA Agent while a search warrant was being executed at his home on Oct. 20, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer EPW Legislative Hearing on S. 2911, the Super Pollutant Act of 2014 Dec. 2, 2014 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) I want to welcome everyone to this hearing on the Super Pollutant Act of 2014 (S. 2911), which is a bipartisan bill that supports innovative technologies ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of BARTOLOMEA JOSEPH MONTANARI, 57, formerly of Bayport, Minn., for tax evasion and fraud. On May 21, 2014, MONTANARI was indicted on one count of Evasion of Payment of Taxes, one count of Mail Fraud, and one count of Wire Fraud. On Nov. 25, 2014, following a 6-day trial, a federal jury found MONTANARI guilty on all counts.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: To avoid contaminating their experiments, biomedical researchers want to know that the scientific products they buy are pure. But how pure does something need to be to really be pure? Using a new test, scientists at the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) have found traces of plant...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, December 9, 2014, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Setting Fiscal Priorities."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Local ambulance service provider Manoa Fire Company (MFC), of Haverford Township, PA, will pay $36,912.46 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act as a result of ambulance services that it provided to Medicare and Medicaid patients, announced United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: Augusta, GA: Kamilya Nicholson, 31, Regina Bunyon, 37, Shequita Bush, 29, and Tamaka Smith, 35, all of Waynesboro, Georgia, were each sentenced to federal prison last month by United States District Court Judge J. Randal Hall for their roles in a stolen identity and tax refund scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: As part of an Interagency Agreement between NIST and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), PML's Radiation Physics Division recently completed a series of image quality measurements of a high-energy x-ray vehicle-screening system at a newly constructed port-of-entry near El Paso, TX.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former longshoreman was sentenced to 12 months in prison today for conspiring to extort others in Local 1235 of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) for Christmastime tribute payments, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two members of Laguna Pueblo were sentenced this morning in federal court for assault convictions arising out of the drive-by shooting of an Acoma Pueblo home. Preston Chino, 22, and Cameron Joseph Kasero, 21, were each sentenced to 96 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2014
News Release: SLOW DOWN FOR THE DESERT BIGHORN SHEEP!.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle today announced that, in Fiscal Year 2014 (Oct. 1, 2013, through Sept. 30, 2014), the Eastern District of Wisconsin Office collected $14,054,999.07 in criminal and civil collections and in asset forfeiture actions. This amount includes $2,530,748.94 in criminal cases, $4,581,800.13 in civil matters, and $6,942,450.00 in forfeiture proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: North Atlantic Medical Services Inc. (NAMS), doing business as Regional Home Care Inc., has agreed to pay $852,378 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for respiratory therapy services provided by unlicensed personnel, the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: The United States has filed a complaint against Orlando, Florida, based Air Ideal Inc. and its owner, Kim Amkraut, for allegedly making false statements to the Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) company, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: Maricopa County Community College District (MCCCD) has agreed to pay $4.08 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it submitted false claims to the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) concerning AmeriCorps state and national grants, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: A campaign manager pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Texas for conspiring with others to pay voters to vote in a Donna, Texas, school board election, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas. Five campaign workers have already pleaded guilty to vote-buying charges in connection with this election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2014
News Release: An executive of Japan-based T.RAD Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to serve one year and one day in a U.S. prison for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices of radiators installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today.
