News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Festus Ighalo, 37, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud the government.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Jan. 24, 2014, Michael E. Hannum, a 53 year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert Pratt to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for escape, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. January 28: Live Webinar on How to Utilize the National Geothermal Data System. Webinar Sponsor: EERE’s Geothermal Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “How to Utilize the National Geothermal Data System" on Tuesday, Jan. 28, from 10:30...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Jan. 24, 2014, Dawn R. Hightree, a 43 year-old resident of Fremont, Nebraska, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert Pratt to 64 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: James and Jenny Tarpley, owners of Visio Photography in Marion, North Carolina, are returning to Columbia for a public presentation to share their experience as Congaree National Park's first-ever Artists-in-Residence at 6:30 pm on February 20. They will share their impressions of the park, photographs...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: Park rangers began an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the presence of two wildlife carcasses-one coyote and one red fox- lying alongside the road near Gros Ventre Junction and just east of Highway 26/89/191 within Grand Teton National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Three men were arrested yesterday following a controlled delivery of heroin and methamphetamine to a house in Rocky Ford, Colorado, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Southern Colorado law enforcement announced. The three men who were arrested appeared this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Denver...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - As part of an international law enforcement operation involving Romania, India and China, federal prosecutors have charged two operators of a United States-based email hacking website, as well as three customers of other hacking websites based in other nations, with computer fraud offenses.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing in rural businesses to help create jobs and spur economic development.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that JD Rodriquez Produce Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: SAVANNAH, Ga. - - Dr. Najam Azmat -, 57, of Waycross, Georgia, was found guilty by a federal jury last week of all charges relating to his role the running of East Health Center, a pill-mill clinic that operated in Garden City in 2011. United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. presided...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: 40° 0.435', -105° 16.116'-that's where I work. I know this because my smart phone says so. The same phone that woke me up in the morning, reminded me to give my dog his heartworm medication, and that I routinely use as a flashlight. But how does this small, everyday piece of technology know where I am? ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Funding will help create jobs, provide technical assistance WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing in rural businesses to help create jobs and spur economic development.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday urged Congress to pass the bipartisan Smarter Sentencing Act, introduced by Senators Dick Durbin and Mike Lee. A copy of the Attorney General's statement, which was recorded as an online video, appears below: “Our criminal justice system works only when all ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that General Electric Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLC (GE Hitachi) has agreed to pay $2.7 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that it made false statements and claims to the Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The government has filed a complaint against Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and Kuwaiti companies La Nouvelle General Trading & Contracting Co. (La Nouvelle) and First Kuwaiti Trading Co. (First Kuwaiti) for submitting false claims in connection with KBR’s contract with the Army to provide ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The operator and director of nursing of a home health agency based in Richmond, Texas, was arrested yesterday for her alleged role in a Medicare fraud scheme and a conspiracy to structure bank withdrawals. The owner and operator of the same home health agency was also arrested yesterday for his alleged role in the conspiracy to structure bank withdrawals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Huey P. Williams Jr., the owner and operator of two durable medical equipment (DME) companies, was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in a $3.4 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with SD Staffing LLC (SD Staffing), aka Atwork Personnel Services Inc., a company based in Methuen, Mass., resolving claims that the staffing company engaged in citizenship status discrimination in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2014
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson for the Western District of Missouri announced that a man and a woman, both from Independence, Mo., were sentenced in federal court today for violating the civil rights of an African-American family by setting fire to their residence.
