News from October 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today highlighted three major rules that could be enacted over the course of the next two years and would have devastating impacts on the U.S. economy. Vitter highlighted recent comments from his Senate colleagues implying the President's lame duck work period is not relevant.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Oct. 30, 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - Today, United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced that William J. Butler II, 61, of Grove, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 38 months in prison for money laundering. Butler pleaded guilty on July 23, 2014, to a criminal Information filed on May 6, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Senior United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Bataillon sentenced Verlyn Grant, age 40, of Winnebago, Nebraska for his conviction on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon. Grant was sentenced to 57 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Justice Department and City of Albuquerque officials will make an announcement regarding the Albuquerque Police Department at a press conference to be held at 1:30 p.m. MDT, on Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, at the Albuquerque office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Raymond Jones, Jr. (60, Jacksonville) to 16 months in federal prison for preparing and filing false tax returns. The Court also ordered him to pay $400,524 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. He pleaded guilty on July 8, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Janis.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Richard A. Kincaid, III, - of Waterbury, Connecticut was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing cocaine. He was also ordered to forfeit $3,906 and a 2008 Chevrolet Impala.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. today that eight present and former members of Plumbers & Steamfitters Local 267 have been charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to steal funds belonging to their union-sponsored health care plan. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Twenty-nine northern Illinois and Indiana defendants are facing state or federal charges following a coordinated investigation of “cracking cards," a scheme that costs banks millions of dollars and has its roots on Chicago’s south side and is spreading to other cities through rap music and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: BALTIMORE - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced David Wayne Nelson, 32, of Salisbury, Maryland, to 140 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mariah Benally, 22, of Kirtland, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a second degree murder charge. One of her co-defendants, LaSheena Jacquez, 27, also of Kirtland, N.M., entered a similar guilty plea earlier this month.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Announcement Builds on Previous Investment in Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin WASHINGTON, Oct.29, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that more than $4 million in technical and financial assistance will be provided to help farmers and ranchers in the Midwest improve the health of honey bees, which play an important role in crop production.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Enrollment Continues Through Dec. 5; Comments Accepted Until Dec. 15 GRAPEVINE, Texas, Oct. 29, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, speaking at the National Milk Producers Federation annual meeting, today announced extended deadlines for the dairy Margin Protection Program. Farmers now have until ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: EBI LLC, doing business as Biomet Spine and Bone Healing Technologies and Biomet Inc. have agreed to pay $6.07 million to resolve allegations that EBI violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce use of its bone growth stimulators and billing federal health care programs for refurbished ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Eleven men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in an international child pornography network operated online, which was targeted by state and federal investigators and prosecutors participating in Operation Kingdom Conqueror. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Superior Crude Gathering Inc. (Superior Crude) has agreed to pay a civil penalty for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act stemming from a 2010 crude oil spill from tanks at Superior’s oil storage facility in Ingleside, Texas, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. Under the consent decree lodged today in federal court, Superior will pay $1.61 million to resolve the government’s claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: A Texas electronics business was ordered today to forfeit more than $1.3 million for failing to report that amount in cash transactions to the IRS, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: A member of the MS-13 gang has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in a gang-related murder and the attempted murder of two rival gang members in the Atlanta metropolitan area. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: North Florida Shipyards and its president, Matt Self, will pay the United States $1 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by creating a front company, Ind-Mar Services Inc., in order to be awarded Coast Guard contracts that were designated for Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Businesses (SDVOSBs), the Justice Department announced today. North Florida Shipyards has facilities in Jacksonville, Florida.
