News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANNETTE BONGIORNO, the manager of the fraudulent investment advisory business at Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, JOANN CRUPI, a/k/a “Jodi," who managed hundreds of millions of dollars in fictitious...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2014
News Release: OROVILLE, Calif. - A former Hilliard, Ohio, man who absconded during a federal child pornography probe, and was the latest fugitive to be profiled on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) smartphone app, is in custody Monday after turning himself in to local authorities in California.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2014
News Release: JAKARTA, Indonesia - U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary of International Affairs Alan Bersin and Indonesian National Police Commissioner General Suhardi Alius signed an information-sharing agreement on behalf of their nations here Wednesday.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 14, 2014
News Release: CUCUTA, Colombia - A 23-year-old Colombian predator who allegedly coerced 50 children to videotape and photograph themselves performing sexual acts was arrested here Thursday by an international team of officers and special agents.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2014
News Release: Johnson City, Texas -Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park has announced that President Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City will be closed for public tours for three weeks beginning on Monday, January 5 and ending on Jan. 23, 2015. The park is temporarily closing the home in order to complete...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Superintendent Tara Morrison is pleased to announce the selection of Frank Young as the deputy superintendent of Rock Creek Park. In this role, Young will oversee the day-to-day operations of Rock Creek Park and supervise numerous park projects and programs. Young is a veteran of the National Park Service (NPS) with nearly 27 years of experience working in national parks in Washington. He begins his new assignment in mid-December.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Senate voted to approve H.R. 83, the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015. The legislation provides funding for federal agencies for fiscal year 2015 but only funds the Department of Homeland Security until Feb. 27, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - Grand Canyon National Park staff have completed repairs to the Trans-Canyon Water Pipeline. Water restrictions have been lifted and Xanterra South Rim LLC has resumed normal operations.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Free Basic Coverage Plans and Premium Discounts Available for New, Underserved and Limited Income Farmers WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that greater protection is now available from the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program for crops that traditionally ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Two Additional Colombian Nationals Also Plead Guilty For Their Roles Three Colombian nationals were sentenced to decades in prison today in the Eastern District of Virginia for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James “Terry” Watson in Bogotá, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: A former Alabama hospital employee was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison today before the Honorable Judge Myron H. Thompson in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in connection with his role in committing stolen identity tax refund fraud, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Former Anderson, California, police officer Bryan Robert Benson, 30, of Shasta Lake, was sentenced today in federal court to five years in prison and 3 years of supervised release for violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by sexually assaulting her while she was in his custody, announced the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: A citizen and resident of Costa Rica was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for her leadership role in a conspiracy to smuggle undocumented migrants to the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: The former chief technology officer of Liberty Reserve was sentenced today to serve five years in prison for conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business that processed more than $16 billion through Liberty Reserve’s digital currency system. The Court found that Marmilev understood the illegal nature of Liberty Reserve’s business and that he knew that a wide array of criminal enterprises used Liberty Reserve to further their criminal activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Today the Department of Justice, in coordination with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and other elements of the Intelligence Community, is releasing six Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (“FISC”) documents related to surveillance activities originally authorized by President George W. Bush shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Brian Daniel Norton, age 59, of Cicero, New York, entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Utica to two federal felony counts of conveying false information and hoaxes, according to United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. Norton faces a maximum possible sentence of five years incarceration and a $250,000 fine. He is being detained pending sentencing scheduled in Utica for Apr. 10, 2015, at 11 am.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Shelbie Brooke Richards, 21, and Sarah Adelia Graves, 21, from Brandon, Mississippi, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Jackson to federal hate crime charges in connection with a series of racially-motivated assaults on African-Americans, which culminated in the death of James Craig Anderson, an African-American man, in the summer of 2011.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday invited public comment on a proposed rulemaking to provide additional information on how to apply the Board's revised capital framework for depository institution holding companies that have non-traditional capital structures.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman previewed the upcoming U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT).
By Commerce News Now | Dec 12, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman previewed the upcoming U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT).
