News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Anchorage-The North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI) is seeking six new members for its Science Technology Panel. The 15-member panel of scientists and technical experts plays a critical advisory role for the NSSI and its Oversight Group by assisting with resource inventories, monitoring, and research needs for Alaska’s North Slope.
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Internet governance is at an inflection point and debate about the fundamental structure of the Internet is ramping up. This debate, now being had in the United Nations, Internet Governance Forum, ICANN and other organizations, will affect global business models relying on networked technologies and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A California investment manager was sentenced late Wednesday afternoon to 225 months in prison for orchestrating a $33 million Ponzi scheme resulting in $15.2 million in losses to investors. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby imposed the sentence in federal court in Salt Lake City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Five individuals involved in a tax refund fraud scheme which used stolen and fraudulent identifying information of hundreds of individuals and businesses to defraud the Internal Revenue Service of nearly $600,000 have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Criminal Charges Filed Against U.S. Citizen in Connection with a Multi-Million Dollar International Cyber Counterfeiting Scheme Based in Uganda.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a grand jury indicted a former Homer Police Officer Wednesday for depriving three people of their civil rights by attacking them and also for lying to FBI agents.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ranger Bill O'Donnell will be retiring at the end of December after thirty years in the National Park Service, twenty-one of them at Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Known to children across the Ozarks simply as "Ranger Bill," he worked with schools throughout the region providing educational...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Ten Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang members and associates were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Vanessa Scott-Washington, 45, of Leesburg, Georgia, was sentenced on Dec. 17, 2014 to serve 6 months in prison and pay restitution for making false statements to the Railroad Retirement Board. The sentence was handed down by Senior U.S. District Court Judge W. Louis Sands in Albany, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Earlier this month, 9 National Park Service staff, 4 teachers and 6 community partners involved in the Park for Every Classroom (PEC) program, gathered at Salem Maritime National Historic Site for a three-day workshop. PEC is an NPS education program in the Northeast Region that trains teachers how to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Hylon Joshua Alford-Solomon (23), James Richard Wooden (24), Chris Allen Williams, Jr. (24), Kenneth Wayne Tolbert (23), Kendrick Dwight Marshall (28), and Christopher Benjamin Blanton (21), all from Fort Worth, Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury for the burglary of Walgreens Pharmacies in Texas and Oklahoma announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was indicted today for his role in a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that caused millions of dollars in losses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Tenn. - Douglas Earl McCasland, 48, of Savannah, Tennessee, was sentenced Monday to serve six months in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of making false statements in violation of 18 U.S.C. §1001, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ISIDRO OROZCO-LOPEZ, age 34, a citizen of Guatemala, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Thursday to robbing a drug store in east Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on U.S. House Bulk Legislative Task Force Deputy House Clerk Robert Reeves’ announcement that the U.S. Senate will open public access to its legislative information in digital data formats for the 114th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two New Haven men were sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Former Rite Aid Vice President and New Jersey Businessman Charged in $14.6 Million Fraud & Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHNNIE SANTANGELO, III, age 29, of Tangipahoa Parish, and OBER FARFAN BRAVO, age 34, an undocumented alien living in Tangipahoa Parish, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging them with a pattern and practice of unlawfully employing aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ANDRES VILLALVA-GUADARRAMA, age 53, a Mexican citizen living in Gretna, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
