News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that defendants Stephen Merry, David Petersen, and Yaman Sencan were sentenced to federal prison for 60 months each for their roles in a massive, multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme. Following their sentences, Merry and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH- After a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, forty-four (44) people - 43 residents of Pennsylvania, and one resident of New Jersey - were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws. On May 21, 2014, a federal grand jury issued one superseding indictment and five indictments, all related to one another, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Quantum information can't break the cosmic speed limit, according to researchers* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute. The scientists have shown how attempts to "push" part of a light beam past the speed of light results in the loss of the quantum data the light carries. The results could clarify how noise might limit the transfer of information in quantum computers.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Loons will soon be establishing nesting territories and engaging in breeding behavior at several sites in Acadia National Park and on Mount Desert Island (MDI). A pair of adult loons is again expected to select Rum Island on Long Pond as their nesting site for this coming nesting season. To protect the nesting birds from inadvertent disturbance or harassment, the entire island and fifteen feet from the shore into the pond are closed to all visitor and operational activities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Juan Yuen-Rodriguez, 29, of Rupert, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. In the same case, Jesus Burgos, 52, of Lennox, California, pleaded guilty today to money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that RICHARD ARMBRE WILLIAMS, age 42, of Columbia, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court to being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections...
By EPA Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: Subcommittees: * Oversight and Investigations (113th Congress) . Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, will hold a briefing on Thursday, May 29, to highlight the committee’s recent report on its investigation of federal programs addressing...
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: VALLEY FORGE, PA - The forest at Valley Forge National Historical Park is continuing to recover from decades of over-browsing by white-tailed deer. Following four years of implementation of the park's White-tailed Deer Management Plan/Environmental Impact Statement, monitoring by National Park Service...
By DOE Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the commission’s work on the spectrum provisions included in the Middle...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that in separate and unrelated cases, Amanda Elliott, 35, of Ellington, N.Y., and Tamara Elliott, 30, of Falconer, N.Y., pleaded guilty to misappropriation of postal service funds by postal service employee before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio. The charge carries a maximum sentence 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today the House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R. 4742, the Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act by a bipartisan vote of 24-17. This legislation would renew and amend the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (last reauthorized in 2006 and expired in 2013) to ensure that this fundamentally sound legislation works in the best interest of both fish and fishermen.
By EPA Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the commission’s work on the spectrum provisions included in the Middle...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michelle Vinas, 55, of Florida, who was convicted of financial institution fraud affecting M&T Bank, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $423,434.98 by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: R.C. Patel a/k/a Rajesh C. Patel, 55, of Duluth, Georgia, was arraigned today in U.S. District Court in Nashville, on investment fraud and related money laundering charges, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Patel pleaded not guilty to these charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Genovese Crime Family Associate Also Pleads Guilty to Illegal Gambling Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Hogsett and Curry continue collaboration of prosecution at both a federal and local level to make Indianapolis streets safer.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 "On May 31-June 5, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates where he will meet with international counterparts to discuss homeland security-related priorities, counterterrorism, ...
By USDA Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Yesterday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack launched a new era in American conservation efforts with an historic focus on public-private partnership. The Regional Conservation Partnership Program will competitively award funds to conservation projects designed by local partners specifically for their ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Zhifei Li, the owner of an antique business in China, was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison for heading an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino horn and elephant ivory worth more than $4.5 million were smuggled from the United States to China.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Ashland Hospital Corp. d/b/a King’s Daughters Medical Center (KDMC) has agreed to pay $40.9 million to resolve allegations that it submitted false claims to the Medicare and Kentucky Medicaid programs for medically unnecessary coronary stents and diagnostic catheterizations and had prohibited financial relationships with physicians referring patients to the hospital, the Justice Department announced today.
