News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three men entered guilty pleas to drug-related charges arising out of two different cases, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. In the first case, two Southern California residents pleaded guilty today to use of an interstate facility to aid racketeering, and in the second case, a Bakersfield resident pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i -Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is seeking public feedback on possible entrance fee increases starting in 2015. Entrance fees for recreational use have not increased since 1997.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two-count Indictment in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Athens Division, charging Steven Maurice McKinley, also known as “Stevo," aged 21, of Athens, Georgia, with Attempt to Kill a Federal Officer (Count One) and Discharge and Use of a Firearm during a Federal Crime of Violence (Count Two).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After deliberating for approximately four hours, a federal jury found Terry L. Sempf guilty of two counts of conspiracy and Interstate transportation of stolen goods, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Attorney General Pam Bondi announce the sentencing of Yamile Calvo-Gonzalez, 41, of Homestead. United States District Judge Joan A. Lenard sentenced Calvo-Gonzalez to 66 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered her to pay $2,015,286.24 in restitution to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alfonso Thompson, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M. , was sentenced today in federal court to 15 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for being an armed career offender. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 2ndJudicial District Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Washington - Billy Goat Trail Section A between Chesapeake & Ohio Canal towpath and the Potomac River within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park will be closed on October 16th from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The potential for producing cost-effective cellulosic ethanol that uses plentiful and sustainable cellulosic plant biomass continues to grow, thanks to research at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists at the Bioenergy Research Unit in Peoria,...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Haleakalā National Park will hold two public meetings to outline proposed fee increases scheduled to begin in 2015. Meetings are scheduled on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 from5pm to 6:30pm at the Hannibal Tavares Community Center in Pukalani and on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014 from 5pm to 6:30pm at the...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Bushkill, PA: Superintendent John J. Donahue announced today that all hunting seasons have been restored on National Park Service lands within LehmanTownship. On Friday afternoon, Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director R. Matthew Hough amended the October 1 executive order that temporarily suspended...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Anthony Murua, 36, of Fresno, to six years and five months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Mark R. Tabb, 46, of Huntington, West Virginia pled guilty today in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Aug. 15, 2012, Tabb was arrested at his 4th Avenue home by officers with the Huntington...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: On October 9, 2014, Todd Shannon Bartusek, age 43 of Omaha, Nebraska, pled guilty to one count of Tax Evasion, a felony, before the Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Senior United States District Court Judge. The penalty for such offense includes a term of imprisonment of up to five years, a $250,000 fine, or both such fine and imprisonment, and a term of supervised release of up to three years. Bartusek is to be sentenced on January 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: DECATUR - The Department of Justice has awarded the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles $370,000 through a Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to develop four intensive supervision pilot programs across Alabama, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Pardons and Paroles Executive Director Cynthia Dillard.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Who lived in Nebraska from 10,000 B.C. to 1800s?
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Kimberly Brown-English, 52, of Fresno, was arrested today after a grand jury indicted her last Thursday for filing fraudulent tax returns while she was an employee of the IRS and for making an opportunity for others to file false tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Brown-English is scheduled to be arraigned today at 1:30 p.m. before U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary S. Austin in Fresno.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Santa Fe, NM - On Oct. 22, 2014, the New Mexico State Office will hold its Oil and Gas Lease Sale in Santa Fe, New Mexico. A total of 13 parcels for a total of 19787.67 subsurface acreage on U.S. Forest Service public lands in Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties are being offered. These parcels were...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that it has reached a settlement with Medical Business Service, Inc. (MBS), which agreed to pay $1.95 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act by fraudulently changing diagnosis codes on claims to Medicare and Medicaid, in order to get the rejected claims paid on behalf of radiologists. MBS was located in Florida, with an office in Duluth, Ga.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - An Everett, Mass. man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to bank fraud conspiracy.
