News from January 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. January 14: Live Webinar Introducing the 2014 Version of the Home Energy Scoring Tool. Webinar Sponsor: EERE’s Home Energy Score. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Introducing the 2014 Version of the Home Energy Scoring Tool" on Tuesday, Jan. 14, from 12:00...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Michael R. Barr, former chief executive officer of Louisville, Kentucky-based HealthEssentials Solutions Inc., has paid $1 million to resolve allegations that he knowingly caused HealthEssentials to submit false claims to Medicare between 1999 and 2004, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, convicted felon Eloy Olivares Garza was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to smuggle approximately 220 assault-type firearms into Mexico announced U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman, HSI Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala and ATF Special Agent in Charge Robert Elder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Manuel Orozco-Infante, a/k/a Manin, a/k/a Morenito, 32, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that on January 7, 2014, Deborah Jefferson was sentenced to 5 years of Probation by Chief Judge William H. Steele on her conviction of one count of Procuring False Tax Returns.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - The National Park Service will be hosting former Vietnam POW Bill Robinsonand historian Glenn Robins, author of the recent biography The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson at the National Prisoner of War Museum at Andersonville National Historic Site on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - -After a three-day trial in United States District Court in Honolulu, a federal jury today found Ernesto Hernandez, 51, of Kapolei guilty of conspiring to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine from April to May, 2013 as well as possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The former executive director of the housing authority in Linn, Kan., pleaded guilty Friday to a federal theft charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of New Castle, Pa., were sentenced in federal court today. Christopher Klingensmith was sentenced to 17 and ½ years incarceration and James Cracraft was sentenced to 37 months incarceration, to be followed by 3 years supervised release, on their convictions of violating the narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and (NIST) today announced appointments to a newly created National Commission on Forensic Science.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that HEATHER RAE HELTON, age 40, of Wilburton, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years of probation and ordered to pay $20,940.00 in restitution for Making A False Statement, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced today that the Eastern District of New York, working collaboratively with other offices as well as on its own, collected over $904 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2013. Of this total amount, $725,564,627.70 resulted from cases handled in conjunction...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Roslyn James, 46, of Alton, Illinois, was sentenced in District Court in East St. Louis, IL on one count of Health Care Fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department posted a blog yesterday about the Hydrogen Education Foundation's Hydrogen Student Design Contest.Read the blog post, Help Design the Hydrogen Fueling Station of Tomorrow, for more information about the contest. Learn about hydrogen infrastructure from the 2013 honorable mention team during a Fuel Cell Technologies Office webinar on January 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joseph Clifford Reel, 33, of Kettering, Ohio, was sentenced today to 35 months in prison on a federal charge stemming from an incident in which he rigged his Jeep to travel, unattended, toward the White House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - After a three-day trial in United States District Court in Honolulu, a federal jury today found Ernesto Hernandez, 51, of Kapolei guilty of conspiring to distribute and possess, with intent to distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine from April to May, 2013 as well as possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. Attorney Amanda Marshall announced today that the District of Oregon collected more than $32 million for U.S. taxpayers during Fiscal Year 2013. This total included.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Michael Rothenberg has been sentenced on a charge of wire fraud for defrauding investors and using their money to fund his political campaign for a seat on the DeKalb County Superior Court.
