News from October 2014
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Congaree National Park is pleased to announce the winners of the 12th Annual SwampFest Student Art competition. Co-sponsored by the Southeast Rural Community Outreach (SERCO) and the Friends of Congaree Swamp, the competition is an opportunity for young artists from the Midlands to showcase their talent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: In El Paso yesterday, 22-year-old Kevin Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution for his role in maliciously causing destruction to the Coronado Tower Building announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Special Agent in Charge Robert R. Champion, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Dallas Field Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Three Miami residents have been charged in a superseding indictment with health care fraud violations stemming from a $23 million Medicare fraud scheme. Two of the defendants are also charged with drug trafficking for submitting fraudulent prescriptions for oxycodone and other drugs to pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - After a month-long federal trial, brothers Stanley D. Gonsalves and Joshua M. Gonsalves were convicted on multiple charges arising from a three-year conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands of 30-milligram oxycodone pills which were distributed on Cape Cod and generated over $5 million in proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Winter Garden, Fl., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A former financial administrator at the Bureau of Prisons (BOP), who admitted submitting a false document to the U.S., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of wire fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
Release: Phil Karsting, Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Supporting the Obama Administration’s goal to reduce carbon emissions and protect the environment, the Energy Department is pursuing a suite of initiatives to strengthen federal energy management through increased focus on measurement of energy use in federal buildings and energy efficient building design.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George L. Russell, III sentenced John Joseph Wilson, age 54, of Dundalk, Maryland today to 30 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for armed robbery of a bank and post office, and the use of a firearm during a robbery. Judge Russell also ordered Wilson to pay restitution of $48,818.01.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, Oct. 10, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Oct. 15, 2014 is National Fossil Day!More than 250 national parks around the country protect a variety of fossils ranging from dinosaur skeletons in Dinosaur National Monument to primitive algae in Glacier National Park.The beaches of Cape Hatteras National Seashore may not seem a likely place to find fossils but some real "treasures" are sometimes located and the National Park Service is honored to preserve and protect those treasures.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Quinton Paul Handlon (44) guilty of production of child pornography, possession of child pornography, and coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Dao Ping Lin (LIN), age 52, and Jin Xian Yang (YANG), age 52, both of Charleston, South Carolina were sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina regarding the guilty pleas they entered on Oct. 22...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Lacey Rae Moore, 44, who pleaded guilty to intentionally starting fires at Forest Place Apartments, including one that destroyed an entire building, was sentenced to 16 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $12 million in restitution on Friday.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today joined the Public Lands Foundation (PLF) in awarding that organization’s Landscape Stewardship Certificate of Appreciation to the Montana Conservation Corps (MCC), based in Bozeman, Mont. A ceremony was held at the BLM-Montana/Dakotas State Office in Billings...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA: Gregory Allen, 31, and Leisha Allen, 33, brother and sister from Jesup, Georgia, pled guilty on Monday before the United States District Court Chief Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for their roles in a stolen identity and tax fraud scheme operating in Wayne County, Georgia.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently made an important land transfer to Alaska Peninsula Corporation, successor in interest to Newhalen Native Corporation, fulfilling the corporation’s final land entitlement under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for Newhalen.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty plea of TYRONE HERMAN, 55, of St. Anthony, Minn., for defrauding investors for more than $19 million. HERMAN, who was charged by information on September 9, 2014, pleaded guilty today before Untied States District Judge Joan N. Ericksen.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Haitian national was indicted yesterday for interfering with flight crew members on a flight from Miami to Paris, which caused the flight to be diverted to Boston.
