News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: HEADQUARTERS, TUPELO, MS: By the end of the year, Natchez Trace Parkway will say "Happy Trails" to 11 employees who have decided to exchange the day-to-day grind for a life of leisure.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Florence Bikundi, the owner of three home care agencies, has been charged in a superseding indictment with six additional offenses related to a scheme to secure more than $75 million in District of Columbia Medicaid payments, even though she was barred from participating in any federal health care programs. The new charges include allegations that Bikundi and others conspired to bill the Medicaid program for services that were not provided.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Miami/Homestead: In September 2014, the National Park Service authorized all park units to engage the public and stakeholders on proposed fee increases as part of the 2014 National Park Service fee review. A large portion (80 percent) of national park entrance and other user fees are returned directly...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Seven defendants were sentenced recently for a huge mortgage fraud scheme that was charged in 2008. A federal grand jury brought two indictments that charged 19 people in a fraud scheme that promised to help homeowners avoid foreclosure and repair their credit. Most defendants have...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLIE SHREM, the former Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of BitInstant, a Bitcoin exchange company, and the former Vice Chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation, was sentenced today to two...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Tony Eldien, 28, of Fairhaven, Vermont was sentenced yesterday by J. Garvan Murtha, United States District Judge, to 36 months in jail for conspiring to distribute heroin and cocaine base. Eldien was also sentenced to a term of supervised release of 3 years once he completes his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Nielsen, 42, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman-elect Jason Chaffetz (R - UT), and current Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D - MD), released the following statement in response to a review conducted by an independent panel appointed by the Department of Homeland Security on recent security breaches within the Secret Service...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - Nevada Bureau of Land Management (BLM) State Director Amy Lueders announced today that she will extend the current public comment period for the Las Vegas and Pahrump Field Offices Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP) and Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) an additional 30 days. The extended timeframe means that the comment period on the Draft RMP/EIS, which originally was set to close January 7, 2015, will now close February 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Indianapolis man defrauded taxpayers and government of nearly $890,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and J. Scott Dennis, Chief, North Miami Beach Police Department, announce that Frenchy Thermidor, 25, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $700.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Philadelphia resident who traveled to Miami pled guilty today for making false threats to blow up Miami International Airpot (MIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), announced today the unsealing of an indictment in Manhattan federal court against WHILEON CHAY for his...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: ( - BOSTON - A Dominican man, who most recently resided in Salem, was convicted yesterday of participating in a North Shore drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 21-year-old Tobyhanna man was sentenced to 10 months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley for distributing heroin in the Monroe County area between late 2013 and mid-2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David Hubbert, the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Trial Matters in the Department of Justice’s Tax Division, John Koskinen, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), and Anthony D. Williams...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Dec. 19, 2014 14-091. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Improving Conditions Allow Yellowstone To Open More...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The owner of CLS Transportation, a Las Vegas, Nev. limousine company, has pleaded guilty to a federal racketeering charge for using the company to commit and promote criminal activities, including prostitution, drug trafficking, and financial fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
