News published on Federal Newswire in September 2014

News from September 2014


News Release: BOCA RATON, Fla - The University Galleries in Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents, “Common Ground: Artists in the Everglades" at the Schmidt Center Gallery, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus. The exhibition will open on Friday, September 19 at 6:30 p.m. and will be on view through Wednesday, November 5.


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Canadian citizen Armitdeep Mann, 33, of Toronto, Canada, was sentenced today to five years and one month in prison by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ronald Lewis Chavez, 46, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Chavez will be sentenced to 12 years in federal prison followed by a term of not more than five years of supervised release.


News Release: Douglas Neighbor Named Superintendent of Carlsbad.


BLM to begin restoring abandoned mine land site along the Slate River

News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - In September, the BLM Gunnison Field Office will start cleanup efforts at an abandoned mine site in the Slate River Watershed to reduce exposure from contaminants left from past mining activities.


News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Richard S. Hartunian, United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, announced today the entry of guilty pleas for violations of the Clean Water Act by Mark Pullyblank, 53, of Caledonia, NY, William Clements, 53, of Victor, New York, and Crane-Hogan Structural Systems, Inc., 3001 Brockport Road, Spencerport, New York, (which employs Pullyblank and Clements) before the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy in federal district court in Binghamton, NY.


News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Chillicothe, Mo., husband and wife were sentenced in federal court today on charges involving the wife’s embezzlement of nearly $4 million from her employer and for the couple jointly filing a false income tax return not claiming the income from the wire fraud scheme.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ronald Lewis Chavez, 46, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today to possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Chavez will be sentenced to 12 years in federal prison followed by a term of not more than five years of supervised release.


News Release: Huntington W.Va - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that William Petties, 33, of Huntington, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court in Huntington to three years and ten months in federal prison on a charge of felon in possession of a firearm. On Jan. 20, 2014, agents with...


Attorney General Holder Records Message For Cartoon Network’s “I Speak Up” Campaign To Combat Bullying

News Release: WASHINGTON-The Justice Department announced Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder has recorded a video message as part of the Cartoon Network’s “I Speak Up" campaign to combat bullying. The project urges young people to speak up in order to help bring bullying situations to an end.


Monroe County Woman Pleads Guilty To Participating In A Heroin Trafficking Conspiracy

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 33-year-old Effort woman pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to conspiring with others to distribute heroin in the Monroe County area during a six-month time period.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Daniel Milzman, 19, of Bethesda, Md., pled guilty today to a federal offense stemming from the discovery of a plastic bag of lethal ricin in a dormitory room where he was staying while he was a student at Georgetown University.


Hatch, Upton Press CMS on Arkansas Waiver Expanding Medicaid Under Health Care Law

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today sent Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner a letter asking for clarification regarding CMS’s issuance of a waiver pertaining to Arkansas’ Medicaid program.


Indictment Charges Kankakee Manwith Possessing 100 Or More Marijuana Plants, Filing False Tax Returnsand Making False Bank Statement

News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Kankakee, Ill., man, David Aaron Neblock, 37, made his initial court appearance this afternoon following his arrest on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. A federal grand jury returned the five-count indictment on Sept. 10...


House Passes Bipartisan Legislation to Reform Child Care & Development Block Grant Program

News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Subcommittee Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) issued the following statements after the House passed as amended S. 1086, a bipartisan, bicameral agreement to reform and reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant program...


News Release: BALTIMORE - A federal grand jury has indicted the three owners and two medical directors of Healthy Life Medical Group, a purported pain management clinic, on drug conspiracy and other charges. The indictment was returned on Sept. 3, 2014, and unsealed upon the arrest of the defendants. Charged in the indictment are...


News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Nicholas Louras, 28, of Rutland, Vermont, has pled guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiring to distribute heroin in the Rutland, Vermont area from November 2013 to March 2014. Louras appeared today before...


News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -Dimas Mazon, 29, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.


Detroit Residents Plead Guilty To Defrauding Irs With Identities Of Deceased Individuals

News Release: Two Detroit residents pleaded guilty today to charges of wire fraud and aiding and abetting in the use of false identification, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Sept. 15, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARY ENGLAND, 42, of Stamford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...