News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Margaret R. Teriet, 32, of Mount Vernon, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Yesterday, a couple from Eldorado, Illinois, was sentenced on their convictions for bankruptcy fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement on the September employment report showing that the economy added 248,000 jobs last month, with the national unemployment rate continuing to decrease, falling from 6.1 percent to 5.9 percent, its lowest point in six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal prosecutors today charged a Vestavia Hills man with money laundering for pawning a 3-carat diamond in 2013 that was among a cache of jewels he collected $2.6 million in insurance money on in 2004 after reporting them stolen in a Mountain Brook Jewelry store robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Mary Lee Owens, 54, of Cahokia, was sentenced today in the United States District...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), California Energy Commission (CEC) and California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) announced today the dates and locations of several public meetings for the draft Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) Environmental...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, during a speech at Northwestern University, President Obama touted America’s abundant energy resources, including natural gas, and the jobs it provides.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway yesterday sentenced Mihaly Kulcsar (33, a citizen of Romania) to three years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and possession of false identity documents. As part of the judgment, the Court also ordered Kulcsar to pay $355,000 in restitution to his victims. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bentley Streett, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., was arrested this morning by the FBI and the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO) on federal child exploitation charges. Streett made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today and remains in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for Oct. 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault on a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Scheme Targeted Non-English Speaking Home Buyers in the Northern Virginia Hispanic Community.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Awards honor outstanding contributions towards the National Park Service mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Rebecca A. Moore, 37, of Yale, (Jasper County) Illinois, was sentenced to 168...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Dear Chairman Broadbent: We are writing concerning the ongoing International Trade Commission investigation requested on Aug. 2, 2013, under section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1332(g)) regarding India’s industrial policies that discriminate against U.S. trade and investment. We...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDRES VILLALVA-GUADARRAMA, age 53, a citizen of Mexico who recently resided in Gretna, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count indictment for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Sept. 27, 2014, was another banner day at the Bureau of Land Management's Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA). This was the 21st Anniversary of National Public Lands Day (NPLD), when over seventy-five individuals came out to the SRMA Environmental Education Center to work on two related...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment against VANESSA J. HERNANDEZ, age 34, of Houston, Texas. The indictment charges the defendant with one count of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, a schedule II...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Everyone is invited to participate in the upcoming Kahuku events and hikes at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park, offered October through December 2014. All events are FREE!.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: There are nine more reasons to enjoy Olympic National Park this year! The park will offer free admission on nine days in 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Assemblywoman GABRIELA ROSA was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to a year and a day in prison, after having pled guilty to two federal felony charges arising out of her efforts...
