News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ERNEST SYKU, 44, of the Bronx, N.Y., pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to a federal extortion charge.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking comments on a proposed rule to clarify the requirements for the transition of dairy animals into organic production.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - William Owuama, 56, and Marla Owuama, 47, have been sentenced following their convictions related to a healthcare fraud scheme in which Mr. Owuama’s Company billed Medicare and Medicaid for more than $9 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Both pleaded guilty Feb. 2, 2015. A third defendant - Florida Holiday Island, 65 - is set to be sentenced on Wednesday. All are from Houston.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management Alaska recently conveyed 18,143 acres of land to the Atqasuk Corporation fulfilling its Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act sections 12(a) and 12(b) entitlement of over 73,000 acres of land. The village is located within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska about 55 miles south of Barrow.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: WHO: David Bates, director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Oklahoma City Area Office
By DOE Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources released its first in a series of videos to highlight the priorities of the Republican members of the committee for the 114th Congress. Two member videos will be released per week over the next six weeks.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Port Alsworth, Alaska - Visitors and residents are reminded that elevated fire danger exists due to cured and dead vegetation in portions of the Lake Clark and Iliamna Lake region. These conditions mean that given an ignition source, new fires may readily start and spread quickly. Wildland fire managers ask visitors and residents to please use caution with all activities that could start a wildfire.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Senator Edward Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight, and the other EPW Democrats sent a letter to the Committee Chairman, Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), urging him to withdraw the partisan bill, the "Secret Science Reform Act of 2015" (S. 544), from consideration at Tuesday's markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Donald D. Smith, age 66, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was charged by an Information with three counts of failing to file income tax returns, announced United States Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Gilbert R. Garza. The Information was filed on April 8, 2015, but remained sealed until his initial appearance which was on April 21, 2015. The case is now pending.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID RILEY, former Chief Information Officer of Foundry Networks, Inc. (“Foundry"), a California-based technology company that was acquired by Brocade Communications, Inc. (“Brocade"), in 2008, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Worked For Cushing MLP Asset Management, LP In Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Franklin Brown, 35, and Eric Walters, 39, both former police officers with the city of Marion Police Department in Marion County, South Carolina, were sentenced to serve 18 months and one year and one day in prison, respectively, today in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Ranad Jamal Straughter, 27, of Westland, Michigan, and Andrew W. Bolyard, 23, of Morgantown, West Virginia, were sentenced today for their role in an oxycodone trafficking operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) and Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (TX-18) released the following joint statement in support of their bills, the End Racial Profiling Act (H.R. 1933) and the CADET Act (H.R. 1810) respectively, that would enhance and Federalize much-needed data collection in law enforcement practices...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DENNIS SICA pled guilty today in White Plains federal court to participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl, the use of which resulted in the deaths of three individuals: Anthony Delello...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ronnie Travis Hall, III (27, Charlotte, NC) today pleaded guilty to transporting a minor with the intent that she engages in prostitution. Hall faces a minimum mandatory term of ten years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 20, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows over 440,000 visitors to Devils Tower in 2014 spent $26,996,400 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 432 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: Four People Were Hit by Gunfire on Busy Street in Broad Daylight Attack.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - James Giulio Davidson, 59, of Modesto, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay a $127,000 in restitution for theft of government benefits, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 27, 2015
News Release: WHO: Nancy Smith, deputy regional administrator for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in Denver
