News from September 2014
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today joined U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other farm leaders at an event to unveil the new Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, new risk management tools authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Mauricio Nieves-Radilla, 36, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Sept. 24, 2014, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Nieves-Radilla was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 16 months imprisonment, was ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Jeffrey Neely, a former high-ranking official with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), today on charges that he submitted fraudulent reimbursement claims and made false statements, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and GSA Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge David House.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- William N. Nettles, United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina announced today that Chandra Padgett, 46 of Batesburg, South Carolina, was sentenced to 87 months incarceration for her conviction on charges of wire fraud and tax evasion. Padgett was an office...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Deveron Lyons, 24, of Rodeo, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 15 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jimmie Lee Simmons, 60, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of acquiring Oxycodone through fraud, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to six months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $367.55. In addition...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that RICKY ELLIS LAMB, age 33, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Possession and Uttering a Counterfeit Security, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 513(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: I come to this moment with very mixed emotions. Proud of what the men and women of the Department of Justice have accomplished over the last six years and, at the same time, very sad that I will not be a formal part of the great things that this department and this President will accomplish over the next two.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Brian J. Hymon, age 35, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania was indicted yesterday and charged with social security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Ronald A. Cimino, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, Tax Division, Andrew M. Luger, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota, and Special Agent in Charge Kelly R. Jackson of the St. Paul Field Office Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") Criminal Investigation, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Cameron Scot Bivins-Breeden, 21, of King George County, Virginia, was sentenced today to 288 months in prison, followed by a life term of supervised release, for using Facebook to entice and attempt to entice 38 minor victims to produce sexually explicit photographs of themselves and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gene Wayne Harris, 42, of Mammoth Lakes, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 15 years, and eight months in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for attempted enticement of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Suspects Were Apprehended As Part Of A Multi-Jurisdiction HIDTA Operation.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Aviation Subcommittee Chairman Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Transportation Inspector General’s report, entitled “ADS-B Benefits Are Limited Due to a Lack of Advanced Capabilities...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-The National Park Service (NPS) has approved a white-tailed deer management plan to protect long term forest health and preserve the historic settings at three battlefields in the national capital region. The plan calls for reducing deer populations over a number of years in addition to other...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of DEA New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found Ralph Crozier, 62, an attorney based in Seymour, guilty of money laundering offenses. The trial before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall began on September 16 and the jury returned its verdict this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Fakeplastic.net Responsible for More than $30 Million in Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Nevada, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for receiving and distributing child pornography. James D. Stevens, 50, of Nevada, Mo., was sentenced by...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: Dear Chairman Broadbent: We are writing concerning the ongoing International Trade Commission investigation requested on Aug. 2, 2013, under section 332(g) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. § 1332(g)) regarding India’s industrial policies that discriminate against U.S. trade and investment. We...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2014
News Release: National Rx Take Back Day Scheduled for Sept. 27, 10a.m. to 2p.m.
