News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lynn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Ramon Garcia, also known as, Jose Alionso Meza Lopez and also known as Victor Hugo Lopez, to 292 months in federal prison followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: So what does it feel like to stand next to a cannon as it fires? Here’s your chance to find out! Fort Stanwix National Monument is looking for highly dedicated volunteers, ages 16 and older, to assist staff in the park's weapons firing demonstrations. Throughout early spring, the park will be providing training to those who wish to become part of the volunteer black powder musket and cannon crews.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - U.S. Army Sergeant Albert Kelly III, 28, of Fort Knox, Ky., pleaded guilty today to theft charges for his role in the theft of fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Stephen Tanabe, a former Deputy with the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office, was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment in federal prison today, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Ricco Sears of Pittsburgh, Pa., was sentenced for heroin trafficking while he was on federal supervised release following a prior conviction and sentence for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Corey Anthony Buddle, 22, of Brooklyn, New York, and his father, Horace Anthony Buddle, 44, of Brooklyn, New York, and Montego Bay, Jamaica, with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Correctional Industries Crafts Hundreds of Bags Uniquely Designed for West Virginia Foster Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - STACEY BROTHERTON, of St. Louis County, pled guilty to embezzling funds from two area schools between 2010 and 2013 today. She appeared before U.S. District Judge John A. Ross.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today responded to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s announcement that the commission will be reviving network neutrality regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kelley M. Lajoie, 35, formerly of Springfield, Mass., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence to 188 months in federal prison for her role as lookout in the September 2010 armed robbery and murder of Woonsocket gas station manager David D. Main.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), former Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the EPW Committee, sent a letter to Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr., of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) has released an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the barn at the Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) in Lorton, Virginia. The Meadowood Barn EA outlines the environmental impacts of alternatives for the structure.The Environmental...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Laredo, TX - Today, U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Administrator Dan Tangherlini and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, joined by Congressman Henry Cuellar and Laredo Mayor Raul Salinas, announced plans to modernize and expand the Land Port of Entry in Laredo, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Vector Planning and Services Inc. (VPSI), an information technology, systems engineering, program management and consulting firm headquartered in Chantilly, Va. , has agreed to pay the government $6.5 million to settle False Claims Act allegations that the company inflated claims for payment under several Navy contracts, the Justice Department announced today. VPSI’s West Coast center of operations is in San Diego, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the Ganado Unified School District in Ganado, Ariz., to ensure that its English Language Learner (ELL) students have equal opportunities to participate in its educational programs, as mandated by federal law. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: Dwayne Allen Hardman, 44, of Charleston, W.V., pleaded guilty today to paying bribes to public officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: A former correctional officer at the Puerto Rico Department of Corrections was sentenced to serve 37 months in prison for attempting to smuggle heroin into the prison where he worked, Bayamón State Penitentiary, in exchange for a $3,000 payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: The former chief executive officer of PetroTiger Ltd., a British Virgin Islands oil and gas company with operations in Colombia and offices in New Jersey, pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to pay bribes to foreign government officials and to defraud PetroTiger.
By Fed Newswire | Feb 18, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday approved a final rule strengthening supervision and regulation of large U.S. bank holding companies and foreign banking organizations.
