News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: ASHLAND -An inmate at the Federal Corrections Institute (FCI) in Ashland, KY., has been convicted by a federal jury of conspiring with a prison guard and others to smuggle prohibited items into the prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today released the following comment on the state of Alaska’s decision to challenge in court the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s rejection of the state’s proposal to survey the energy resources of the non-wilderness portion of the Arctic coastal plain.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Third Degree Burglary.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: The owner and operator of a Miami medical clinic, Merfi Corp., was sentenced today to serve 108 months in prison for her participation in multiple health care fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that today Jason Lynn Gay (40, Orlando) was arraigned in federal court on an indictment charging him with one count of threatening a federal official, one count of making threats against the President of the United States, and one count of mailing a threatening communication. If convicted on all counts, Gay faces up to 25 years in prison.
By State Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, as the crisis in Syria enters its fourth year, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced a bipartisan resolution calling for an end to attacks on Syrian civilians,...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Gregory Lozado, age 34, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced earlier this week by U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 235 months (just under 20 years) for being a felon in possession of 10 rounds of ammunition, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Denver Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 5, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Susan P. Watters, TIMOTHY M. FAHRENBRUCK, 53, of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Samuel Goines, 61, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 60 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and obstruction of justice. Goines also was ordered to pay restitution and forfeiture in the amount of $539,187.36.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., woman was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for her role as the leader of a ring responsible for shipping dozens of stolen and carjacked luxury cars and SUVs worth more than $2.5 million from New Jersey to Africa, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that DANIEL JAMES ABBOTT, age 32, of Calera, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging him with Embezzlement By Bank Officer Or Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on March 5, 2014, before Senior U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, ANTHONY JOSEPH RUNGO, a 48 year-old resident of Roseburg, Oregon, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 14, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Douglas T. Knowles, 37, of Washington Park, Illinois, was sentenced to 3 months in federal prison, followed by 6 months of home detention and three years of supervised release for the...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Great American Cleanup at Hopewell Mound Group & Adena Rec. Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown announces that Nicholas Sierke, a 25 year old Mobile resident was sentenced today. The Honorable Kristi Dubose sentenced Pickett to 31 months incarceration followed by three (3) years of supervised release and a monetary assessment of $100. This sentence was based...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Samuel Ray Palasota, 53, has been ordered to federal prison following his convictions on multiple counts of mail and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The Houston-area pastor was convicted of 21 counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud in conjunction with an investment fraud ponzi scheme after three days of trial on Oct. 17, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Join the National Park Service (NPS) in celebrating 100 years of John Muir’s conservation legacy during the annual Earth Day and John Muir’s Birthday event on Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 10 AM to 4 PM at the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) in Martinez, CA. Participate in fun activities for all...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Whether you smell it or see it, the presence of smoke in the air is generally widespread this week as a combination of prescribed and wildfires appear on the Ozark landscape. Yesterday (Thursday, March 13) there were a number of fires that contributed to the smoky environment. Buffalo National River...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Barbara Moran, 53, and her sister-in-law, Mary Moran, 50, both of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute fentanyl, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a $1,000,000 fine or both.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will become an even more beautiful place on March 16 when the Artist-in-Residency program will debut its first artist.