News from December 2014
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A leading land conservation group and a longtime friend of Chiricahua National Monument (NM) have helped the National Park Service (NPS) preserve an important part of the natural landscape at the park’s main entrance. On Wednesday, Dec. 17, NPS and The Trust for Public Land (TPL) successfully completed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Earlier today, a criminal information was filed charging Jonathan L. Herbert, of Lighthouse Point, Florida, with wire fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Eric P. Zahren today announced the filing of a criminal complaint in Pittsburgh charging a U.S. citizen with leading an international counterfeit currency operation headquartered in the Republic of Uganda.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christian Dean Reid, 39, a citizen of Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to making false statements. The charge carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Anasazi Heritage Center will be closed on Wednesday, Dec. 24, through Friday, Dec. 26, as well as Thursday, Jan. 1, 2015, in observance of the holidays.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: “Thanks to DSCOVR, the United States will have the uninterrupted ability to monitor space weather conditions, but in much greater detail," said Stephen Volz, Ph.D., assistant administrator for NOAA’s Satellite and Information Service. “Those conditions can quickly turn dangerous and pose serious threats to Earth space and ground infrastructure."
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Council on Environmental Quality's (CEQ) decision to reissue a controversial 2010 draft guidance that would dramatically expand the scope of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by requiring agencies to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in NEPA reviews.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The former Executive Director of the Gallup Housing Authority and an accomplice were sentenced this morning to federal prison for their convictions arising out of a scheme to defraud the United States and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of more than $100,000.00.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the announcement of Abigail Hopper to be Director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) within the Department of the Interior.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Florida Man Guilty in Mortgage Relief Scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Rite Aid Corporation Vice President and a New Jersey businessman have been charged in connection with a $14.6 million dollar, surplus inventory sales/kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A federal grand jury sitting in East St. Louis has indicted Adam B. Hill, 35, of Godfrey, Illinois, for Receipt of Child Pornography, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Anthony Lee Erity (33, Kenneth City) to nine years and two months in federal prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty on June 25, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Defendant Was On State Supervision for Prior Contact Offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Dec. 18, 2014, Nicole Marie Speed, 35, from Bismarck N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve Judge Erickson sentenced Speed to 60 months’ probation on condition she be placed on 12 months of home confinement with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Raymundo Done, 24, and Jorge Marcano, 30, of Providence, have been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence for their roles in a heroin trafficking conspiracy in Pawtucket and Providence, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Michael Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England field division; and Pawtucket Police Chief Paul King.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that James M.
