News from March 2014
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - Everglades National Park, and partners including the University of Florida (UF), Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), and the Swamp Apes (a volunteer organization), worked together over the weekend to capture a Nile crocodile that was reported in Everglades National Park, in the Chekika area of the park, which is currently closed to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Olsson, 60, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for his child pornography conviction. Olsson will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Bedford County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of accessory after the fact, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary: I am writing to express my deep concern over the numerous attempted attacks and killings of Rwandan dissidents living outside that country. Any functioning and responsible democracy allows the voices of opposition to be heard. Yet in Rwanda there is a systematic effort to silence...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Archie, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing government funds by working full time while he received more than $109,000 in Social Security disability payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Nikitis A. Mangeris, age 70, of Berthoud, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 4 months in federal prison for tax evasion the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS CI) announced. Mangeris was also...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Federal charges are filed in Newark against a man who allegedly contacted a consumer products company and claimed he poisoned its products and would return them to store shelves if his demands were not met, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Cicely Muldoon announced today that Point Reyes National Seashore is seeking applications for this summer's Youth Conservation Corps Program (YCC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: A three-count indictment was filed charging the former director of the Cleveland Job Corps Center with withholding more than $872,000 in federal taxes from employees but never paying the money over to the Internal Revenue Service, law enforcement officials said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CRAIG B. HABER, a former partner of a global accounting firm, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 54 months in prison for stealing nearly $4 million in client payments intended for the accounting firm. HABER pled guilty in August 2013 to one count of mail fraud before U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castel, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park staff are currently in the planning phase to develop a commercial services strategy for guided commercial climbing in the park. Currently, the park allows one guided climbing services provider. During 2014, park staff will conduct market analysis of guided climbing through...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: On March 10, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued a 640-acre coal lease to develop about 9.2 million tons of recoverable coal adjacent to the El Segundo Mine in McKinley County, New Mexico. It sold for $2.3 million to Peabody Natural Resources Company.In 2011, Peabody submitted a Lease by Application...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former treasurer and chairman of the board of directors of a Nevada-based publicly traded company was sentenced yesterday for his role in a fraudulent kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that WILLIE LEE WARTSON, age 42, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Possession of Stolen Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(j).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Secretary Kerry, I join Chairwoman Granger in welcoming you back to our Subcommittee. Let me also say congratulations on the birth of your granddaughter last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that today, U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick sentenced ASHLEY D. RICKS-STAMPLEY, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 81 months imprisonment for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. RICKS-STAMPLEY was also sentenced to serve three years of...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing entitled, “Raising the Bar: The Role of Charter Schools in K-12 Education." During the hearing, members discussed ways charter schools are empowering parents, pioneering fresh teaching methods, encouraging state and local innovation, and helping students escape underperforming schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: A San Antonio man faces up to 20 years in federal prison after admitting to shooting his intimate partner multiple times on Fort Sam Houston Army Post in June 2013 announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse, San Antonio Division, and United States Marshal Robert Almonte.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Bridgewater man was sentenced yesterday for possessing more than 2000 images and videos of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody today sentenced Michael T. Rivers (32, Sarasota) to 9 years and 7 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Rivers pleaded guilty to the offense on Oct. 23, 2013.
