News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Benjamin Easley, 36, of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania was charged yesterday by Indictment with three counts of bank fraud and three counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that 109,685 visitors to Congaree National Park in 2012 spent $5.144 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 66 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Yasuhiro Watanabe pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stephen Gooden, 40, of Stockton, was sentenced on Thursday by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to one year in prison and a $1,000 fine for possessing a machine gun, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film A Class Apart Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs (R-OH), will hold a hearing next week on the potential use of water quality trading as an innovative, market-based mechanism to cost-effectively achieve local water quality improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a five-count indictment charging Daniel Rice, 50, a retired Boston, MA, police officer, with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Albert Greer, Sr. of Shelby Township was found guilty on March 20, 2014 of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Fraud, and of Aiding and Abetting Bank Fraud, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today in advance of Sunday’s four-year anniversary of the president’s signature domestic policy achievement, ObamaCare, being signed into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Angela Althea Peart was sentenced in connection with her role in a fraudulent international lottery scheme that targeted U.S. citizens, the Justice Department announced. Peart was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge K. Michael Moore for the Southern District of Florida in Miami to serve 33 months in prison and 5 years supervised release. A hearing on restitution has been scheduled for June 5, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on March 20, 2014, KEITH EDWARD LESTER, 44, of Sidney, was ordered to serve a term of 30 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters. The sentence is a result of Lester's December 2013 guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a WaterSMART Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Feasibility Study Funding Opportunity Announcement for non-federal government entities, Indian tribes, water districts, wastewater districts or rural water districts in the 17 western states.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Nevada has postponed the oil and gas lease sale for parcels in the Elko and Southern Nevada districts from June 24, to a date in the near future. The postponement will allow time for the National Environmental Policy Act analysis to be completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that on March 20, 2014, FLORENCE IRENE JARA, 52, of Billings, was ordered to serve a term of five years of probation, pay $41,984.60 in restitution to the Social Security Administration, and perform 275 hours of community service, by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Ric L. Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, announce that Kawana Brown, 36, of West Palm Beach, pled guilty for her participation in a wide-ranging identity theft scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Willis Yazzie, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Two Grey Hills, N.M., was sentenced today to 188 months in federal prison followed by eight years of supervised release for his aggravated sexual assault conviction. Yazzie will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, March 21, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 21, 2014, Darren E. Everett, 43, and Mackenzie A. Leonard, 28, residents...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, AL - The United States Attorney, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Anthony Wesley Cade was sentenced to thirty six months imprisonment today by United States District Court Judge Kristi DuBose, after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18 USC '922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Kenai, Alaska, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking with Respect to Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on March 17, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management today released a Proposed Resource Management Plan that balances potential resource uses with protecting wildlife habitat and other sensitive resources within lands managed by the Kremmling Field Office.
