News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Georgia business owner who held himself out to be an investor and loan broker was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in defrauding investors of more than $800,000, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Travis Lamont Foote, a/k/a “Cash," age 31, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion and was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal jury in Camden convicted a Philadelphia business owner today for arranging a murder for hire that led to a shooting in Atlantic City, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Six South Florida residents have been indicted for their alleged participation in a $6.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Professional Medical Home Health LLC (Professional Home Health).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: The environmental analysis and review for a proposal within to construct a fish passage barrier downstream of Akokala Lake in Glacier National Park’s North Fork District has been completed, and a decision was signed by the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Director to move forward with the project. The project is located in an area of recommended wilderness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Joan Baranek, 57, of Yardley, PA, is charged by information, filed yesterday, with embezzling $830,504 from her employer, between 2006 and 2012, and not reporting that income on her tax return, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Baranek was a vice president for sales at Airgas Safety, Inc., a subsidiary of Airgas, Inc., based in Levittown, Pennsylvania. She is charged with mail fraud and filing a false income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for Nevada, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), is pleased to announce that on Monday, Sept. 29, the U.S. Department of Justice awarded three grants totaling $2,125,000 to the North Las Vegas Police Department, the City of Elko, and the Elko County Sheriff’s Office for the hiring of 17 law enforcement officers.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As a part of the Administration’s effort to support greater energy efficiency through the Better Buildings Challenge, the Energy Department today announced the first data center owners and operators who have committed to reduce their energy use by at least 20 percent over the next...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Developed over the last five years by researchers at NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, the HRRR is a NOAA research to operations success story. It provides forecasters more detailed, short-term information about a quickly developing small-scale storm by combining higher detail, more frequent radar...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -Julie Drugatz has been named the chief of commercial services at Lake Mead National Recreation Area and assumed her new role Aug. 24, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Paul Lewis from the University of Tennessee will be at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area on Saturday, October 4, for one of the park's highly popular dark sky astronomy programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Defendant Used Armed Juveniles to Guard Stash House.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County man who left the scene of the crime by hailing a cab admitted today to robbing the New York Community Bank in Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for selling counterfeit baseball cards of Mickey Mantle, Babe Ruth and others on eBay, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new report from Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) shows the number of people in each state who have lost access to federal unemployment benefits through September as a result of the termination of the program and illustrates why opposition to helping the long-term...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that Timothy Alan Butterbaugh, 46, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced to 63 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill sentenced Butterbaugh at the federal...
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on President Ashraf Ghani’s Inauguration and the signing of the U.S.-Afghanistan Bilateral Security Agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: THUNDERBIRD IN MONTANA BANKRUPTCY CASE. MISSOULA - Following a two-day trial for concealing a 1957 Thunderbird and another vehicle from a bankruptcy trustee, Timothy James Pulliam, 65, of La Mesa, California, was convicted by a Montana jury of concealing property and making false statements under oath...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Sept. 29, 2014, Dontez Flowers, 35, of Fayetteville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 151 months in federal prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice, Jr., U.S. District Judge. Flowers pleaded guilty in June 2014 to distribution of cocaine base, “crack." Upon his release from prison, he will be subject to three years of supervised release by the U.S. Probation Office.
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, NJ - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent the following letter to Hong Kong’s Chief Executive, Leung Chun-ying, calling on him to respect the rights of the people of Hong Kong to assemble peacefully and express their democratic rights and freedoms.
