News from December 2014
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN) issued the following statements after the Department of Education released the framework for an unprecedented college ratings system...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Larry Malone, age 59, from Bainbridge, Georgia, was sentenced on Dec. 16, 2014, to serve 48 months imprisonment and pay restitution in the amount of $ 25,540,896 to the Southwest Georgia Farm Credit and its insurers. The sentences were handed down by the Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior United States District Judge, in Albany, Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In light of the recent developments surrounding the Sony breach, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that the committee will hold a series of hearings throughout the coming year to examine the numerous threats to electronic commerce and the overall American economy posed by cybercrime. The hearings will continue work begun over the last four years to examine ongoing cyber threats.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Co-Chair of the National Security Working Group; Tom Carper (D-DE), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee; Susan Collins (R-ME), former Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee; Mark...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems (LMIS) has agreed to pay $27.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the government for work performed by LMIS employees who lacked required job qualifications.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kevin Sniffen, age 53, of Phoenix, Maryland, an attorney licensed in Maryland, today to three years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to commit wire fraud arising from an investment fraud scheme. Judge Motz also ordered Sniffen to pay restitution of $15.85 million.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2014
News Release: The Tyler Bend and Buffalo Point Visitor Centers will be closed on Christmas Day, Dec. 26, and January 1. Steel Creek will be closed for the winter. Seasonal staffing reduction also will create some additional closures at Buffalo Point. The Interpretive staff continue to provide programs and information...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Karie Brown, 20, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for a shooting outside an apartment building in Southeast Washington that seriously wounded an eight-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Jennifer A. Gallagher, 31, of Margate, Florida, and Danielle M. Cook, 28, of Pembrooke Pines, Florida, both pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of bank fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Sentencing for both defendants is set for March 9, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Bruce Lee Cearlock, 79, of Auburn, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 18 months in prison for making false statements to obtain federal employee’s compensation, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Cearlock was also ordered to pay restitution of over $73,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: html xmlns=". USDOJ: US Attorney's Office - CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA - 164. SANTA ANA, California - An attorney who engaged in a conspiracy that allowed the owner of a chain of marijuana stores to hide some of his income has pleaded guilty to federal financial offenses.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Capping two years of the HELP Committee’s bipartisan accomplishments, Congress this week sent to the President for his signature two additional bills under the jurisdiction of the HELP Committee. When both are signed by the President, they will be the 25th and 26th bills under the jurisdiction...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Lexington, Ky., man, who previously admitted conspiring to defraud wireless telephone companies out of hundreds of smartphones, has been sentenced to 27 months in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Acting Superintendent Tracy Swartout advises that Mount Rainier has transitioned to winter hours of operation and service. Warmer than average temperatures, several flood events, and high winds marked an interesting end to November and start to December. Winter recreation demand will be increasing as...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Faye Walmsley will be retiring at the end of December after 31 years of service in the federal government, twenty-nine of those with the National Park Service. Faye has been the Chief of Interpretation at Ozark National Scenic Riverways since 2010, overseeing the park's visitor programs, special events, interpretive media, and public outreach.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 75-year-old Beaumont doctor has been sentenced to federal prison for health care fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Norshawn Michael Duplessis, 40, of Detroit, Mich., has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for possessing hundreds of grams of heroin and a firearm in Lexington, Kentucky.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 In October, I announced the formation of a panel to conduct an independent inquiry of the United States Secret Service. I have now received the recommendations of the independent panel. Much of the panel’s assessment and the details of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A Houston investment manager was sentenced yesterday to serve 56 months in prison for orchestrating a $72 million investment fraud scheme resulting in approximately $40 million in losses to investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A California investment manager was sentenced yesterday to serve 225 months in prison for orchestrating a $33 million Ponzi scheme resulting in $15.2 million in losses to investors.
