News from September 2014
By State Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-After months of urging world leaders to stop the sale of two French-built Mistral class warships to Russia, Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the announcement by the French government that the delivery of the first...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Park Programs September 2014. Join park rangers this month for a variety of fun and interesting interpretive programs. Park rangers will lead special guided tours of park sites and share personal stories of those who fought in the Pacific War. Programs provide visitors an opportunity to learn about park...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Waynesville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing Security Bank of Pulaski County in St. Robert, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Donte Demus, 26, of Norfolk, Va., pleaded guilty today in Norfolk federal court to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft for his role in a scheme to steal identities and file false income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: In Waco today, 31-year-old Rodney Davis of Cincinnati, OH, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release and fined $3,000 for his role in a drug distribution operation announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 3, 2104, Amber Jennings, 29, of Mt. Vernon, Illinois was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that PATRICIA BLANCHARD, age 67, formerly of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Sept. 3, 2014, Christopher Spivey, 30, pled guilty to submitting false...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Martin Christopher Edwards was ordered to serve a 33 month prison sentence yesterday, and ordered to pay $894,222 in restitution to the WineTasting Network for his involvement in an embezzlement and tax evasion scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and IRS Special Agent in Charge Jose M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II sentenced William Edward Osman (34, Orlando) to 60 years in federal prison for the production, distribution, and possession of child pornography. Osman was also ordered to serve a life term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender upon completion of his custodial sentence. Osman pleaded guilty on Feb. 28, 2014, and he was sentenced on Aug. 29, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: The National Park Service has issued a Request for Interest or pre-solicitation for a prospectus that will be issued in the coming months soliciting offers for a 20 year Concession Contract to provide lodging, camping, tour boat, food and beverage, retail, and other services within the Flamingo Area of Everglades National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is proposing a permanent federal prohibition on three historically illegal predator hunting practices in Alaska's national preserves.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: A man who robbed the Solon State Bank in Ely, Iowa, was sentenced on Sept. 2, 2014 to more than three years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Sept. 3, 2014, Hovakim David Mkhitarian, 31, Glendale, Calif., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve seven months in prison and seven months electronic home monitoring for charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. Mkhitarian was also ordered to pay $2000 in restitution and a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Charles Corbitt (36, West Palm Beach) with wire fraud. If convicted, Corbitt faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Teton Interagency fire managers will conduct prescribed fires this fall, if weather conditions are favorable. For each prescribed fire, managers work with other resource specialists to plan and write a specific prescription that includes parameters for wind speed and direction, smoke dispersal, relative...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: In Waco today, 34-year-old Cory Cole of Itasca, TX, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for embezzling money from the Citizens State Bank (CSB) announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: In El Paso, 29-year-old Rigoberto Ruiz-Alatorre, an admitted drug trafficker and former bodyguard for Sinaloa narcotrafficker Gabino Salas-Valenciano (aka “El Ingeniero"), was sentenced to 28 years in federal prison and fined $5,000 for murdering a member of his drug trafficking organization announced...
