News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park encourages volunteers to register to help count humpback whales during the 2014 Sanctuary Ocean Count held the last Saturday of January, February and March (Jan. 25, Feb. 22, and Mar. 29), from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Sens. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and John Boozman (R-Ark.), pressed the Administration for a transparent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced TERRANCE DISHON DANIELS, 21,of Williamston, North Carolina, to 57 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised released for possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony. DANIELS previously pled guilty to this charges on Sept. 30, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper, (D-Del), Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), and House Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Fred Upton (R-Mich) highlighted a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report entitled, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former president of Vonetex LLC today admitted that he paid nearly $100,000 in kickbacks to benefit himself under a subcontract to a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) contract for high-tech phone systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Rasondo Maurice Norris, who attempted to smuggle cocaine and a Mac-11 machine gun onto a commercial flight has been sentenced to ten years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold an oral auction, Thursday, January 16 at 10:00 a.m., to sell 440 acres of public land in 28 parcels in Clark County, Nev. The competitive sealed-bid and oral auction sale will be held in accordance with the Southern Nevada Public Land Management...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Keire Terrell Harvey (24, Clearwater) to 10 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Tickets to Unique Film Festival Commemorating the Yosemite Grant Go On Sale Today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Columbus man who had heroin and oxycodone during an August 2013 traffic stop pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Antoine Walker, 27, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers in Huntington.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report on cruise ship safety and security and the reporting of crime on these vessels. The report, requested by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA), ...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Climbing and Canyoneering Management Plan for Arches National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today alleging that defendants Auto Fare Inc., Southeastern Auto Corp. and Zuhdi A. Saadeh—the owners and operators of two “buy here, pay ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Rakecia Matrese Brame, formerly of Greensboro, N.C., and now of Grand Prairie, Texas, pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2014, to identity theft, tax, and fraud charges, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Brame pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, one count ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The government has intervened in eight False Claims Act lawsuits against Health Management Associates Inc. (HMA) alleging that HMA billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary inpatient admissions from the emergency departments at HMA hospitals and paid remuneration to physicians in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) today announced a $8,355,648 grant to organizations providing direct support to assist the victims, witnesses and first responders involved in the events surrounding the Boston Marathon bombings in April 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Two former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) Japanese Yen derivatives traders and the trader responsible for setting Rabobank’s Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) were charged as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of LIBOR.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: A former disc jockey for area high school parties pleaded guilty today in the District of Puerto Rico to producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Today the District Court in the District of Columbia dismissed a challenge filed by the Florida Bankers Association and Texas Bankers Association challenging 2012 amendments to the Department of the Treasury’s interest-reporting regulations. The regulations require U.S. banks to report to the Internal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2014
News Release: Nakia Jackson pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and one count of aggravated identity theft for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
