News from October 2014
By USDA Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising three standards: the U.S. Standards for Grades of Creole Onions, U.S. Standards for Grades of Bermuda-Granex-Grano Type Onions, and U.S. Standards for Grades of Onions (other than Bermuda-Granex-Grano and Creole type).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security announced a new temporary plan to require passengers originating from Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea to enter the United States through one of five designated airports enhanced with Ebola-screening measures (located in Dulles, Atlanta, New York City, Newark and Chicago)...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- The United States Attorney’s Office advises that there will be a pre-trial conference hearing tomorrow (Oct. 22, 2014) in United States v. James William Lewis and Kirstie Elaine Philome Barratt. The hearing will be held at 9:30 am on Oct. 22, 2014, before United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. (courtroom # 4) at the Matthew J. Perry Federal Courthouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Howard P. “Buck" McKeon (R-CA), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, issued the following joint statement on the 20th anniversary of the Agreed Framework on North Korea’s Nuclear Program...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: A Miami licensed physician assistant was sentenced today to serve 15 years in prison for participating in a Medicare fraud scheme involving approximately $200 million in fraudulent billings by American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), a mental health company that was headquartered in Miami.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Work begins Friday, October 24 on an emergency access route between Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park and Kalapana along the historic Chain of Craters Road-Kalapana alignment, from the park side.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former immigration officer who was found guilty of taking bribes from Cambodian immigrants in exchange for immigration benefits, including granting the immigrants temporary legal status, has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - A county school district and four private companies specializing in a variety of fresh, frozen meats and seafood products became the latest employers to be certified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) employment compliance program called IMAGE at a ceremony here Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD - A husband and wife, both formerly of Barrington Hills, Ill., were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on separate counts of making false statements in a bankruptcy case. The indictment alleges that DANIEL APOSTOLOPOULOS, 52, and SOULA APOSTOLOPOULOS, 45, each filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition, and fraudulently failed to disclose financial interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Today Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Vincent Sanchez, Jr., 37, of Klamath Falls, Oregon, to 15 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Sanchez will be on five years of supervised release after he completes his prison term. The maximum sentence he faced was life in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will hold 17 public hearings this fall on proposed regulations and environmental assessment related to sport hunting in Alaska's national preserves.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Christopher J. Burruss, 37, of Toano, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to Interstate Threat to Injure the Reputation of Another, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 875(d). Burruss faces a maximum of 2 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $250,000, and one year of supervised release when he is sentenced on Jan. 21, 2015, by United States District Court Judge James R. Spencer.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a report summarizing six years of testing coatings to control the attachment of quagga and zebra mussels to water and power facilities. Since the study began in 2008, Reclamation has tested more than 100 coatings and materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dalton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David Wendel Thompson (49, Seffner) pleaded guilty yesterday to online enticement of a minor. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision. His sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Edward J. MacKenzie, Jr., a self-professed "enforcer" for James "Whitey" Bulger, pleaded guilty today to charges relating to his decade-long scheme to siphon off the considerable financial assets of the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church.
By State Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the reported assertion that the Administration does not currently need to consult Congress during negotiations with Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Efrain Arturo Jovel pleaded guilty today to filing two false tax returns and failing to report his financial interest in foreign bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Huntington Beach, Calif. man who defrauded the IRS of almost $800,000 in a false income tax refund scheme, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to the government, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge John Collins of IRS Criminal Investigation for Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Four residents of Laredo have been arrested and charged in a previously sealed indictment for allegedly conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business among other offenses, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
