News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Cameron G. Beck, 27, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2014, to 46 months in prison by United States District Judge Lyle Strom. Beck was indicted after a search warrant executed on his residence located a 7.62 rifle with one drum...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: USDA Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Doug O’Brien today announced a $40 million Community Facilities direct loan to University of Pikeville to construct a new facility to house Kentucky’s first ever College of Optometry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Advance Fee Scheme Targeted Developers Seeking Financing For Construction Projects In Areas Devastated By Hurricane Katrina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Five commercial airline employees were charged today after an undercover operation revealed that they used their airport security clearances to secretly smuggle hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash past security checkpoints.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CORNELL TYLEIZ HARVEY, 29, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Section 846.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: On Saturday, Sept. 27, volunteers across the nation will celebrate National Public Lands Day, the nation's largest hands-on volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands Americans enjoy. The Bureau of Land Management is hosting nine National Public Lands Day events in Arizona. You can be part of this amazing national effort. Events are scheduled for:.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A woman today admitted committing three bank robberies over a three week span in Newark and Harrison, New Jersey - including one on Valentine’s Day, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, a five-count indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Brooklyn, New York, charging Oswald Lewis, also known as “Alexander Louis," “Junior," “Andrew Jackson," “Andre Bernard Jackson," “John Green," “Leslie Howard" and “Dre," with assault on a federal officer by use of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence man pleaded guilty in federal court Wednesday to embezzling more than $1 million from his company and his business partners, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 26-year-old Plano gymnastics instructor has been sentenced to federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: The Defendant Fraudulently Inflated Accounts Receivable To Draw From A Revolving Line Of Credit.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch today announced that the United States and New York State have entered into a settlement agreement with Enzo Biochem, Inc., and one of its subsidiaries, Enzo Clinical Laboratories (collectively, “Enzo"), to resolve a case brought under the federal False Claims Act and the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jason W. Patterson, 38, of Wellsville, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and distribute, 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, was sentenced to 151 months in prison and ordered to pay $3,143 in restitution to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that JEFFREY REESE FISHER, age 37, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, followed by 1 year of supervised release for Gratuity Received by a Public Official, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 201(c)(1)(B) and 2. FISHER was also ordered to pay $6,774.00 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced in federal court to 60 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, as well as violating the terms of his supervised release from a prior federal firearms conviction, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Gopaul Noojibail, a 15-year veteran of federal service, has been promoted to Superintendent of several national parks in Washington, D.C., administered asNational Capital Parks East. In this role, Noojibail is responsible for the management and direction of vast urban green spaces, beloved...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC to Pay $56.5 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced new appointments or reappointments of members to Arizona’s citizen-based Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.“Our Resource...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER BRYAN COLEMAN, 25, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2014
News Release: A Canton man was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $200,000 in restitution for tax violations, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of the IRS' Cincinnati Field Office.
