News from November 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a conspiracy that produced and sold thousands of false identification documents to illegal aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is considering reroutes and repairs to several trails that were heavily damaged or lost during the September 2013 flood. Flooding not only washed away the travel surface in some locations, but also structures such as culverts, water bars, and bridges. Saturated soils on hillsides failed, causing landslides that destroyed entire trail segments. Trails that received the most substantial damage require extensive repairs or rerouting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARVIN JEMAL, the former Chief Executive Officer of a Manhattan-based company that designed, imported and distributed luggage, business bags, backpacks, and accessories (the “Company"), was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding was sentenced on Oct. 23, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: In Alleged Scam Involving Clients’ Deposits.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Political consultant Thomas Lindenfeld, 59, of Washington D.C., pleaded guilty today to an information charging him with one count of conspiring to commit honest services wire fraud. U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III scheduled a sentencing hearing for March 25, 2015. Lindenfeld faces a maximum possible statutory sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jason Calendar, 38, of Beckley, West Virginia, pled guilty in federal court in Charleston to distributing heroin. Calendar admitted that on Aug. 1, 2014, he sold heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Laurel Terrace in Raleigh, West Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. November 5, 2014 14-083. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone National Park Proposes Entrance and Backcountry...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Lamont Lewis, 38, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for his role in the Oct. 9, 2004 retaliatory firebombing that killed six members of a federal witness’s family, including four children. Lewis pleaded guilty in 2011 and testified against Kaboni Savage, who ordered the firebombing, and three others co-conspirators.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A man who admitted committing several armed robberies of businesses last year in Dallas, including a gas station, a package store and convenience stores, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Barbara M. G. Lynn, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, November 5, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Maersk Line, Limited, (Maersk) paid the United States of America eight million seven hundred thousand dollars ($8,700,000.00) as the result of a civil settlement regarding Maersk’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: The owner and administrator of two Miami home health care companies was sentenced today to serve 80 months in prison for her participation in a $74 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the committee’s priorities for the 114th Congress. Upton recently unveiled the #RecordOfSuccess webpage chronicling the committee’s bipartisan achievements in the 113th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William M. Nickerson sentenced Dellando Recardo Campbell, age 32, of Lemoore, California, today to 30 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for interstate domestic violence resulting in the death of a spouse, in connection of the death of Serika Dunkley Holness.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the organization charged with protecting America’s power supply, today warned that the Obama administration’s power plant proposal would threaten the nation’s electric reliability. In a new report, NERC raised concerns about EPA’s assumptions...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey Transit vendor today admitted paying bribes to a New Jersey Transit employee to obtain landscaping contracts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller sentenced Gerald Steven Kronberger, 35, of Redding, today to three years in prison for possessing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal trial jury today for illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Christian Montalvo, 40, of Providence, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Providence to drug trafficking and firearm charges as jury selection was underway in his federal court trial, announced by United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field divisionof the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2014
News Release: The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the organization charged with protecting America’s power supply, today warned that the Obama administration’s power plant proposal would threaten the nation’s electric reliability. In a new report, NERC raised concerns about EPA’s assumptions...
