News from May 2014
By Commerce Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Daniel Ashe questioning the agency’s decision to press charges against a California tree-trimmer who inadvertently violated the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) while performing a job commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A former officer with the San Bernardino Police Department was convicted today of federal civil rights charges for forcing two prostitutes to perform sex acts while he was in uniform.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MATTHEW TEEPLE, a former analyst for a hedge fund investment adviser located in San Francisco, California (“Investment Adviser A"), pled guilty today to participating in an insider trading scheme that resulted...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, the Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), announced today that 21 citizens of the Dominican Republic have been charged with conspiring to impersonate United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, 54, of Fairfield, was sworn in today as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut by the Honorable Janet C. Hall, Chief Judge for the District, in New Haven.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jovanna Deshawn Forte (39) and William Boyd Burns (44) have each pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and face a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. In addition, both agreed to a money judgment...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska:Want to know what it takes to provide trails for visitors in Denali National Park? Come join the Denali trail crew on Saturday, June 7 and celebrate National Trails Day by helping with maintenance activities on the Horseshoe Lake Trail, the park's first established trail.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: In pursuit of its long-term energy goal to reduce its carbon footprint to zero, the Forest County Potawatomi Community has assumed a leadership role in creating a sustainable and healthy world. Since adopting its environmental mission statement in November 2008, the Community has made significant strides toward implementing several types of renewable energy to power its tribal facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two corrections officers, a lawyer, and six others were charged today in three separate complaints with smuggling contraband, including cell phones and marijuana, into a federal pretrial detention facility at the Essex County Correctional Facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Exhibit Commemorates 150th Anniversary of Yosemite Grant.
By Homeland Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: I rise to offer to the House our support for the base bill. The chairman of this committee, whom I have had the honor to work with for a number of years, has laid out in some detail some of the appropriations in this bill. And as our Constitution requires, no dollar out of our Treasury shall be appropriated, except by act of Congress. So we are here in our constitutional roles.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Late yesterday, Rocky Mountain National Park rangers were contacted via cell phone by Samuel Frappier, 19, from Quebec, Canada. He and a friend were ascending Longs Peak from the western side of Chasm Lake via Lambs Slide when they separated. Later in the afternoon, Samuel became stranded on Broadway...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Dustin C. Watson, 31, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 115 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, on May 28, 2014. Upon his release from prison Watson will be subject to supervised release under the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for three years. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS ANTONIO MENDEZ, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: A New York man was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution for his role in a conspiracy that skimmed more than $1.7 million from trucking companies, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Special Agent in Charge Marlon Miller, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Detroit, which covers Michigan and Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Mickey Williams, 35, of Shreveport, La., pleaded guilty on Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote, to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Pablo Plaza, of Rochester, N.Y., 38, pleaded guilty to the commission of a murder while engaged in a drug trafficking conspiracy before U.S. District judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years and a maximum of life, and a $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - National Park Service fire managers on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon are managing the Galahad Fire for both resource and protection objectives. Resource objectives for the fire include returning fire to a fire-adapted ecosystem in order to maintain forest health. Protection objectives for the fire include protection of sensitive cultural resources and wildlife habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Today in federal court, a 34-year-old Fresno, California woman was arraigned for interfering with a Delta Airlines flight crew. Brandi Kristine Poulsen was charged by indictment with three counts of Interference with a Flight Crew and Attendants and one count of Assault of a Fellow Passenger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma Danny C. Williams Sr. announced today that United States District Court Judge James H. Payne sentenced James Rhea Cooley, a former Regional Human Resource Manager for Newfield Exploration Mid-Continent Inc., a Houston, Texas-based...
