News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, March 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LYNN A. SCHEUFLER, 35, formerly of Woodstock, Conn. and currently residing in Vermont, pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: BOISE -Nearia “Nick" William Pinnell, 42, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to thirty-three months in prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession of a fully-automatic machine gun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Pinnell to serve three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty to the charges on Dec. 17, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Pictured Rocks Recruits Applicants for YCC.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A woman who owns a retail store in Wichita was ordered to pay $25,000 and placed on five years federal probation for trafficking in counterfeit designer goods, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. She also forfeited all the counterfeit goods that investigators seized from her store.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: A skier was caught in an avalanche and seriously injured about 2 p.m. on Sunday, March 9 in Grand Teton National Park's backcountry. Greg Epstein, 43, from Wilson, Wyoming was preparing to descend one of the Air Force chutes within Granite Canyon with two companions at the time of the avalanche. Epstein was reportedly carried over 1000 feet by the slide. No other members of the party were injured.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovanna Deshawan Forte (39) and William Boyd Burns (44), both of Lakeland, with one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and fifteen separate counts of bank fraud. If convicted, Forte and...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Trail crew members from Canyonlands National Park and Rocky Mountain National Park are working with park staff to repair a damaged rock wall at the Hickman Bridge Trailhead. Due to safety concerns, the trailhead will be closed while crews are working.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Stephen Richnafsky (38, North Royalton, OH) to 20 months in federal prison for mail fraud and obstruction of Internal Revenue laws. The court also ordered Richnafsky to make full restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vanessa Edwards-Hamm, a former officer with the Prince George’s County Police Department, was sentenced today to 30 months of probation, including four months to be spent in home confinement, for unlawfully disclosing information about a wiretap being used on a target of a law enforcement investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., doctor practicing family medicine in East Orange, N.J., today admitted receiving cash kickbacks for diagnostic testing referrals of his patients and failing to file tax returns on $1 million of income over a three-year period, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Stephen J. Johnson, 66, of Linden, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to 15 months in prison for committing perjury before a federal grand jury and making false statements to the FBI United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mythili Raman, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, announced today the guilty plea of FREDERIC CILINS, a French citizen, for obstructing a federal criminal investigation into allegations...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that the committee has opened an investigation into the General Motors Company’s (GM) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) response to consumer complaints related to problems with ignition...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to an order issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to bolster the security of the U.S. electric grid. The order directs the North American Electric Reliability...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to an order issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to bolster the security of the U.S. electric grid. The order directs the North American Electric Reliability...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to an order issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to bolster the security of the U.S. electric grid. The order directs the North American Electric Reliability...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma and the National Park Service announce the settlement of a civil lawsuit brought by the United States of America, acting on behalf of the National Park Service, against William T. Jester, a previous owner of land which is adjacent to Chickasaw National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 10, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of an agency that administered disaster relief funds pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a wire fraud scheme following the tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011.
