News from January 2014
By Commerce News Now | Jan 27, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Samilyn Olson, 47, of Jamestown, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - James Lee Lankford, 74, formerly a Modesto-based real estate broker, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 10 years in prison for orchestrating an 11-year mortgage fraud scam that looted elderly homeowners and lending institutions of close to $10 million dollars, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Explore phenology, "the science of the seasons", at Joshua Tree National Park in a free, one-day workshop. Engage in citizen science and learn how you can volunteer to help the park detect the impacts of climate change by observing the seasonal activities of the park's desert plants, from bud-burst to flowering and fruiting. The California Phenology Project has been launched to implement a monitoring program focused on national parks in California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant BERNICE RIVERA was sentenced on Jan. 21, 2014, by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood in the District Court of Guam, to time served and two years of supervised release for the offense of Bank Misapplication.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kaylan Joseph Cureton, 25, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to four years in prison on federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By State Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: The following statement was read today on behalf of Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in Prishtina, Kosovo commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Adam Christopher Vega, 30, of Bakersfield, was arrested late Friday in Bakersfield after being charged in a seven-count federal indictment alleging that he and four co-conspirators trafficked in methamphetamine and marijuana, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said the President’s health law should be fully repealed and replaced with the proposals outlined in the Patient Choice, Affordability, Responsibility, and Empowerment (CARE) Act. Hatch, along with...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 27, 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 announcement that the founder and CEO of Bitinstant, a major Bitcoin exchange, had been charged by federal prosecutors for attempting to launder more than $1 million in digital currency...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kenneth Sales, 23, of Auburn, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Malcolm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ashley C. Guy (30, Riverview) today pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on the wire fraud charge and a 2 year consecutive sentence on the aggravated...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: On Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, the Acadia Advisory Commission will meet at park headquarters on Eagle Lake Road at 1 pm. Superintendent Sheridan Steele will report on the Fiscal Year 2014 budget, proposed opening dates for roads and facilities, the 2016 Centennial planning process, and the status of Schoodic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Michelle Rutledge, 47, of Berlin, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Brattleboro to a charge of wire fraud. District Judge J. Garvan Murtha released Rutledge on conditions pending her sentencing, which has been set for May 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazzara today sentenced John Andrew Welden (29) to 13 years and 8 months in federal prison for tampering with a consumer product resulting in bodily injury to the victim (Remee Lee), and for conspiracy to commit mail fraud. Specifically, Judge Lazzara sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that James Anthony Jones pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia to possession with the intent to deliver 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Lansford, Carbon County, resident pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to the charge of distributing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - THOMAS STRITZEL, Former Chief of the St. Louis Park Rangers, was sentenced to 36 months in prison on charges that he and Joseph Vacca, Former Deputy Commissioner of the St. Louis Parks Division, defrauded the City of St. Louis of approximately one-half million dollars by submitting false invoices for materials and services supplied to the Parks Division. He appeared before United States District Judge Carol E. Jackson in St. Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Oh Sung Kwon, 48, a Northern Virginia businessman, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison on federal charges stemming from a bribery scheme in which he paid thousands of dollars to an Army official in return for government contracts, as well as a separate scheme involving fraudulent real estate sales and refinances.
