News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. took office today as Acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. He succeeds Ronald C. Machen Jr., who resigned after serving more than five years in office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Six individuals were charged today in connection with their involvement in an armed robbery crew that conducted home invasion robberies in Michigan and Texas, principally targeting victims of Indian and Asian ancestry.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Employer name and location: Bednar Landscape Services Inc., located at 501 Division Street in Boonton, New Jersey. The company provides landscape, excavation and snow removal services throughout northern New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: The Products Contained Pharmaceutical Compounds Smuggled from China.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Hartford Police Chief James C. Rovella, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Edward Adames-Tavares (30, New York) with smuggling cocaine into the United States. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Michael Roberts, age 25, of Bella Vista and Jason Petitt, age 25, of Fayetteville, were sentenced today on one count each of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping. Roberts was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DENYS JAVIER BENITEZ-FERNANDEZ, age 31, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal reentry into the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Burwell: We write to you to once again raise the concerns that we have previously expressed on numerous occasions over the past 3 years, specifically with regard to the risk of conflicts of interest between the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and UnitedHealth Group, its...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: THURMONT, MD -Catoctin Mountain Park joins national parks, programs and partners across the country to encourage everyone to find their park and share their stories online at FindYourPark.com.Launched yesterday by the National Park Service and the National Park Foundation, Find Your Park is a public awareness and education campaign celebrating the milestone centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 and setting the stage for its second century of service.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting information related to the legality, cost, and feasibility of the agency’s proposed rule banning certain refrigerants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Scam Involved 45 Properties and $16 Million in Mortgage Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Raynham man was sentenced today for engaging in a fraud scheme involving the creation of phony invoices for annual dues that purported to come from legitimate business and trade associations.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: The name sounds like something Marvin the Martian might have built, but the "nanomechanical plasmonic phase modulator" is not a doomsday device. Developed by a team of government and university researchers, including physicists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the innovation harnesses tiny electron waves called plasmons. It's a step towards enabling computers to process information hundreds of times faster than today's machines.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN ZELEPOS, 48, of North Stonington, pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to tax evasion and financial structuring offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Ken Jermaine Fowler, 30, of Tuba City, Ariz., a member of the Navajo Nation, was found guilty by a federal jury of involuntary manslaughter and assault resulting in serious bodily injury of a minor. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow from March 3 - 26, 2015. The defendant was remanded into custody after trial. Sentencing is set before Judge Snow on June 29, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting information related to the legality, cost, and feasibility of the agency’s proposed rule banning certain refrigerants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Robert J. Sica, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of the United States Secret Service, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that William A. Harvey (50, DeLand) has pleaded guilty to producing child pornography. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to 30 years, in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for June 11, 2015. Harvey was indicted on Dec. 23, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Luis Carlos Bujanda, 47, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 70 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
