News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that, after a three-day trial, a federal jury found a Lafayette woman guilty of taking gift cards from U.S. mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, Karsten Puschmann, 51, of Kiel, Germany, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to serve 189 months in prison. Puschmann pleaded guilty on Jan. 22, 2014, of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual conductPuschmann’s term of imprisonment will be followed by lifetime supervised release, with stringent sex offender conditions, including the condition that he register as a sex offender.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: With cooler conditions in the forecast for next week, the Fire Management staff at Point Reyes National Seashore is planning two days of controlled burning along Highway One in the Olema Valley. Burning in the Olema Valley is scheduled for Tuesday, October 7, and Thursday, October 9, but will be rescheduled if conditions are too wet, dry, or windy, or if the air will not provide good smoke dispersion.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed the “Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT Act)," bipartisan legislation that will strengthen and improve post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries while bringing about more accountable, quality-driven benefits to patients. The House passed the bill on Tuesday.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed five members to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board. Members will serve 3-year terms.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: An energy transformation is underway in America and technology is leading the charge. Advances in hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling have completely shattered prior expectations about our nation’s energy future by unlocking vast amounts of shale resources that were previously considered off...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: In San Antonio today, 29-year-old Leonard Roundtree, III, of Richardson, TX, was sentenced to five years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for plotting to kill his uncle’s intimate partner announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher H. Combs, San Antonio Division, and United States Marshal Robert Almonte.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Stuart...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: An area of high pressure combined with offshore winds will lead to very warm to hot temperatures throughout the region. In addition, a moderate sized, long period southwest swell will enter the region on Friday, October 3 and remain through tonight. This swell will result in an increased threat of rip currents and sneaker waves along most of the beaches at Point Reyes National Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Manuel Montes Espinoza, 37, of Tucson, Arizona, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, marijuana. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum of 40 years, a fine of $5,000,000 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Defendant Was A Fugitive For Six Years.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are taking their studies to the field to gauge the survival rate of a new line of rainbow trout that is resistant to bacterial cold-water disease.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE HERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 35, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien, in violation of 8 U.S.C. ' 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today a second superseding indictment in a sex trafficking conspiracy charging six individuals for offenses related to their involvement in sex trafficking adult victims in New Orleans and elsewhere. Five defendants, Granville Robinson, aka “Bear" and “HB," 25; Duane...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former investment adviser was sentenced to 3½ years in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining approximately $4 million from more than 30 victims and misusing the money to make Ponzi-type payments to investors, pay personal expenses, and personal gambling, resulting in a loss of just over...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department, on behalf of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey against Pharmaceutical Innovations Inc. and its president Gilbert Buchalter, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce R. Branda for the department’s Civil Division, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An immigration service officer with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) who took thousands of dollars in bribes from immigrants who were seeking either citizenship or lawful permanent resident status in the United States was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Forensic accountant and certified fraud examiner Howard Bloomberg has pleaded guilty to willfully failing to disclose to the U.S. Treasury Department a foreign bank account he controlled in Switzerland.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 3, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is not keeping complete and reliable information on how much it is spending to implement the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In response to the report, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statements.
