News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the convictions of Ian Campbell Gent and James F. Lagona. The defendants were convicted of conspiracy and mail fraud by a federal jury in February 2011. Lagona was sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Beginning Nov. 1, Gettysburg National Military Park will change to its winter visiting hours for the battlefield - from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m.daily, the National Park Service has announced. The Museum and Visitor Center's hours will be from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.daily. Winter visiting hours will continue through March 31, 2015. From April 1 through Oct. 31, the park will remain open from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m.daily.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for the crimes of drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Jerome C. Crosby, 58 of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 77 months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The defendant will also forfeit $58,328 in United States currency, proceeds of the narcotics trafficking.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report finds that the Postal Service’s recent changes to its service standards have resulted in slower mail delivery across the country. Sen. Tom Carper, a co-requestor of the report and chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced the unsealing of an indictment of three Monroe County residents issued by a federal grand jury in Scranton on October 14 for participating in a conspiracy that allegedly distributed heroin between November 2011 and the date of the indictment.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on yesterday's parliamentary elections in Ukraine...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a report surveying petroleum production outages around the world, data which could be used to provide strategic warning of threats to international security.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: NIST has taken part in a new push to address a persistent and growing problem in physics: the value of G. The Newtonian constant of gravitation, used to calculate the attractive force of gravity between objects, is more than 300 years old. But although scientists have been trying to measure its value...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Laurie Kelly will lead the efforts of her Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 4, 2014, general elections. AUSA Kelly has been appointed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PATRICK NAYYAR, 50, an Indian citizen who was residing illegally in the United States, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 15 years in prison for crimes related to support he attempted to provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Husband also pleads guilty in money laundering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service was sentenced in federal court today for leading a conspiracy to steal taxpayers’ identity information in order to receive fraudulent tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RICHARD MASON, 33, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Pittsfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for producing material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Announces.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Yadira Garcia, 35, has been ordered to prison following her six counts of conviction for making false statements on firearm records, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Robert W. Elder, special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). A federal jury convicted Garcia, of Alamo, July 22, 2014, following two days of trial and approximately 30 minutes of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. On Oct. 22, 2014, Jonathan E. Merydith, 26, of Cobden, Illinois, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, the United States Attorney...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: The National Parks service is happy to announce that the Annual Boat Launch Permit for Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area will now be available on line through pay.gov at.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 70 months in federal prison on a carjacking charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
