News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man who arranged to sell an undercover buyer a pound of methamphetamine for $20,000 was sentenced Monday to 100 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Thomas S. Jackson (57, Longwood) and Samer S. Majzoub (53, Heathrow) with one count of conspiracy and three counts of bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds. If convicted, each ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cristian Gutierrez, 22, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 11 years and three months in prison on child pornography and child sexual abuse charges, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Clark E. Settles, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Washington, D.C., and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Joey Jamal Braggs, 30, of Detroit, Michigan, pled guilty in federal court in Huntington to a charge of distribution of oxymorphone. On July 25, 2014, a confidential informant working with law enforcement, contacted Eric Silverstein...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 22, 2014, Joyce Allen, 66, of Alcoa, Tenn., was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court in Knoxville, of charges contained in a March 2014 superseding indictment involving wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering. Sentencing has been set for 10:00 a.m., Jan. 13, 2015, before the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Big Bend National Park and the National Parks Arts Foundation will be hosting an evening presentation at Sul Ross University in Alpine featuring playwright, scriptwriter, photographer, and producer Howard Korder. The presentation is open to the general public and will take place on Oct. 24, 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former owner of a Long Beach medical supply company was sentenced today to 30 federal months in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1.5 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to provide unnecessary power wheelchairs to Medicare patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that a man from Fairbanks, Alaska was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for conspiracy to possess methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Javin Keith Reano, 22, a member and resident of Kewa Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to a federal aggravated sexual abuse charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Reano will be sentenced to 84 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Reano will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -Sept. 22, 2014. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. National Parks and Monuments Fee-Free for National Public Lands Day. CAMP VERDE, Ariz. -National Park Service units throughout the country will waive entry fees on Saturday, Sept. 27, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: The Defendants Used Identities Stolen From U.S. Citizens, Including The Deceased And Children, To Conceal Their Scheme And Harbored Illegal Alien Workers At Houses Owned By The Defendants.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Beneficial fungi could become microbial marshals tasked with wrangling a weedy icon of the American West, Salsola tragus-also known as tumbleweed or Russian thistle.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, today issued the below statements after the U.S. Treasury Department announced new guidance on corporate tax inversions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced it has reached settlements with Banks-Jackson-Commerce Hospital and Nursing Home Authority d/b/a Banks Jackson Commerce Medical Center (BJC) and Dr. Narasimhulu Neelagaru that total over $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - John Jaramillo, 45, of Albuquerque, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to federal child pornography charges. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $5 million in funding for nine projects that will advance the development of combined heat and power (CHP) and renewable energy technologies at facilities across the federal government and help meet energy efficiency, renewable energy, and greenhouse gas reduction...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former Newport Beach resident who fled the country 15 years ago after federal agents executed search warrants relating to his fraudulent Internet company pleaded guilty this afternoon to federal fraud charges, admitting his role in a scheme that raised nearly $13 million from investors around the country in the late 1990s.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service announced today that it will work with the State and County of Hawai‘i to construct an emergency route along the former Chain of Craters Road to assist residents of lower Puna, whose access to the rest of the island would be cut off if lava covers Highway 130.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Wire Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -Sept. 22, 2014. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. National Parks and Monuments Fee-Free for National Public Lands Day. CAMP VERDE, Ariz. -National Park Service units throughout the country will waive entry fees on Saturday, Sept. 27, in...
