News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Walter O. Guillory, 51, of Lafayette, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote, to 28 months in prison and one year of supervised release for receiving bribes while running two housing authorities in the Acadiana area and also for his part in a conspiracy to award bids to a preferred contractor in Opelousas.
By State Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nominations hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest of Orlando Justin Gomez (54, Middleburg). Gomez is charged in a criminal complaint with possession of child pornography. If convicted, he faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Wyoming’s Wind River SORNA completed Operation Jessica.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Public comments are encouraged on a recently completed environmental assessment for a proposed fish passage barrier downstream of Akokala Lake in the North Fork District of Glacier National Park. Comments are due by July 7, 2014. The Akokala Creek Fish Passage Barrier Environmental Assessment is available at.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- On Monday, June 9 at approximately 9:40 p.m. the National Park Service received a 911 call reporting an unconscious man at the Desert View Campground within Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: A Youngstown man was sentenced to 90 years in prison for exploiting children and distributing visual depictions of minors in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Cory Homestead, 35, of Nyssa, Oregon, was sentenced today by U.S. District Chief Judge Ann Aiken to 63 months in federal prison for unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition. Upon his release from prison, Homestead will be on supervised release for three years.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) will be hosting its annual barn restoration workshop June 19-21 at the Schmidt Farm located on Norconk Road, three miles south of Empire, Michigan, and one mile west of M-22. This year marks the 18th anniversary of a partnership between the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: A grand jury in Miami, Florida, indicted two individuals and two corporations for allegedly operating call centers in Peru that lied to and threatened Spanish-speaking victims into paying fraudulent settlements.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -- U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) is reminding the newest members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of their pre-confirmation commitments to reach out to the agriculture sector.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing to assess the state of media ownership, and the rules that govern it, in the digital age. Members discussed the FCC’s inaction on the statutorily required 2010 quadrennial review of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Donna L. Brown, age 45, of Millington, Tennessee, pleaded guilty yesterday to a criminal information charging her with theft of government funds in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today that James Francis Ortman, 58, of Maple Rapids, Michigan, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months’ imprisonment for submitting false claims to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). As part of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - Christopher Swann, 24, of Port William, Ohio, was sentenced today to six months’ imprisonment and six months’ home confinement for his involvement in a heroin conspiracy where he purchased heroin in Ohio for distribution in West Virginia. Swann pled guilty in March of 2014 and admitted...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park and the Grand Teton Association (GTA) announced today that Kellen Nelson was selected for the 2014 Boyd Evison Graduate Fellowship. Nelson, the tenth recipient of an Evison Fellowship, is pursuing a Ph.D. in ecology and botany at the University of Wyoming (UW) in Laramie. The Evison Graduate Fellowship began in 2005 to support advanced studies throughout the Greater Yellowstone Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for using a minor victim to produce child pornography. Morgan Littleton, 32, of Independence, was...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Albert Jeffrey Sanchez (50, Orlando) and Harold Ferdinand (36, Longwood) guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Sanchez and Ferdinand were indicted on Feb. 19, 2014. The verdict was returned yesterday. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging KEITH ANTHONY...
