News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Frederick Douglass National Historic Site is pleased to announce the winners of the park's annual Oratorical Contest. All winners received a $200 gift certificate and are invited back to the park to perform their award winning speeches for the anniversary of Douglass' birthday, Feb. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - James F. Druggan, Jr., 65, of Reynoldsburg, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 10 years in prison and 10 years of supervised release for distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Sippy Lal, 61, of Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to induce aliens to illegally enter the United States for private financial gain, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - St. Helena Hospital, an acute care hospital within the Adventist Health System, has agreed to pay the United States $2,250,000 to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare for certain cardiac procedures and related inpatient admissions, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. -U.S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken sentenced Joseph Anthony LaCoste, 50, of Albany, Oregon, to 60 months in prison and ordered him to pay $1.6 million in restitution for securities fraud violations. LaCoste, the former chief executive officer of Willamette Development Services (WDS), a real estate development company based in Albany, Oregon, had previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud for his conduct associated with WDS.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: In a face-off between two promising flame retardants, the challenger-a nanomaterial that maintains a positive façade while sheltering a negative interior-outperformed its chemical antithesis. And that material already is a leading candidate for environmentally friendly fire-resistant coatings on furniture foam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: David Rivera has been confirmed by the United States Senate to serve as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Beginning in late-January, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to gather wild horses from various locations across Nevada. In an effort to manage populations on the range using population growth suppression, BLM will gather approximately 1,000 wild horses in the Pine Nut Mountain, Fish Creek and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Junior Brooks, 26, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced yesterday by J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Judge, to 46 months in jail less credit for 23 months of time served in New York State for a related drug...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fontana, California, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Eighteen South Florida residents were sentenced in connection with their role in a scheme that used fraudulently obtained personal identifying information (PII) of AT&T and Verizon mobile telephone plan subscribers to purchase iPhones as a discounted rate. Three of the individuals sentenced stole the PII from their respective employers, including Verizon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Recruited Individuals from Drug Rehabilitation Centers in Hayward and East Oakland.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Baltimore man was sentenced today to 138 months in prison in connection with the sex trafficking of a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - A 54-year-old Lubbock man appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Dec. 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAVIER MORENO, 27, a citizen of Guatemala who recently resided in Willimantic, was sentenced yesterday...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Jan. 10, 2015-REMINDER- We invite the public to attend either of two additional public meetings on the proposed park fee increase, beingheld on January12 in Naples and Jauary15 in Homestead.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to the announcement from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that the North Korean government is responsible for launching a destructive cyber attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced that Mary Phillips is joining the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit as a Senior Professional Staff member.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Kevin Dennis Golden, 39, of Reno, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
