News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) Gregg L. Sullivan, Perry H. Piper, Jeffrey E. Theodore, and A. William Mackie of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of Tennessee were four of 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: On Sept. 27, 2014, thousands of volunteers at public lands sites throughout the United States are expected to participate in National Public Lands Day (NPLD) in a celebration of the work, play and learning that takes place on public lands every day. The Meadowood Special Recreation Management Area...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement in response to President Obama’s address...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TODAY to examine the dismal security situation in Libya and the Obama Administration’s Libya policy. The hearing, entitled “Libya’s Descent " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Raymond Edmonds, 43, of Beckley, West Virginia pled guilty in federal court in Beckley to distribution of oxycodone. Edmonds admitted that on March 18, 2014, he sold oxycodone to a person cooperating with law enforcement authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Five residents of Amarillo, Texas, who pleaded guilty earlier this year to their roles in an illegal gambling conspiracy, were sentenced on Friday, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Thirteen Disabled Veterans to Summit Iconic Peaks in Commemoration of September 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Seven current and former members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Arizona, along with four special agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), were among those recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Jury Found Melvin Lowe Guilty Of Conspiring With New York State Senator John Sampson To Defraud The Democratic Senate Campaign Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Natural Resource Committee Democrats highlighted a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that irrigation districts owe the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) $1.6 billion in outstanding water project construction costs. The outstanding payments have left taxpayers on the hook for constructing costly, but critical water infrastructure projects that provide water to the irrigators, and other users.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -An Opelousas man was sentenced last week to 23 months in prison and five years of supervised release for taking part in an international scheme to defraud banks and victims across the country, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - William A. Coles, Jr., of Pamplin, Va., was sentenced today to 50 months in prison, 2 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $1,035,014 in restitution for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the United States through the preparation and filing of false federal income tax returns and bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Several employees of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, who were members of the District’s prosecution team in what became known as the Dallas City Council public corruption case, were recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Grand America Hotels and Resorts will forfeit nearly $2 million for violations relating to the hiring of undocumented workers, including illegal aliens, according to a non-prosecution agreement signed last week by the corporation, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two women from Alamogordo, N.M., were sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., this morning for participating in a conspiracy to obtain prescription drugs by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge by filling fraudulent prescriptions at retail pharmacies. Sharon...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Virginia. Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. RICHMOND, Va. - Richard A. Long, age 58, of Midlothian, Virginia, pleaded guilty to failing to truthfully account for and pay over employment taxes. He faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jerry J. Barrera, 30, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced James Epps, age 34, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to eight years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a gun and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former First Assistant U. S. Attorney Lynn Jordheim and Supervisory Paralegal Lou Ann Lee of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of North Dakota were one of 243 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director Monty Wilkinson at the 30th annual Director’s Awards Ceremony today in Washington D.C.
