News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted a Ferriday couple for hiding income in order to receive more than $197,000 in veterans benefits and a Bossier City woman for stealing veterans’ benefits and lying about the income during bankruptcy proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty for his participation in an identity theft tax fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows the economic benefit of Channel Islands National Park and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to our local economy in supporting 706 jobs with a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $68 million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 827 jobs in regional economy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that more than 3.5 million visitors to Yellowstone National Park in 2014 spent $421 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 6,662 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $543.7 million.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Learn more about your national parks! The Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial spring program schedule runs from Monday, April 27 through Thursday, May 21, 2015. A variety of free programs are offered.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Mid-America Steel Products Inc., doing business as American Sports Medical Industries
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - In an effort to stem the influx of violent crime in the Houston area, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced the filing of five criminal complaints charging 22 defendants with either bank robbery or commercial robbery as well as various firearms charges. Magidson made the announcement along...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 21-count indictment today against Abolghasseni “Abe" Alizadeh, 56, of Granite Bay, and Mary Sue Weaver, 62, of Roseville, charging them with various counts of mail, wire and bank fraud in connection with schemes to defraud lenders in large commercial real estate transactions between mid-2004 and April 2008, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that approximately 600,000 visitors to Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area in 2014, spent $17.5 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 242 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Report shows visitor spending supports 346 jobs in local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Point Reyes Station, California - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that the 2.43 million visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore in 2014 spent more than $102 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,322 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy in excess of $128 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Christian Archer and Brandon L. Waller were sentenced today to a combined total of over 25 years in federal prison for unrelated drug trafficking charges. Archer, age 30, of Hope, Arkansas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - a former Miami Dade County Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation prison guard was sentenced today to 36 months in federal prison by U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Norgle for his role in a scheme involving theft of prison inmates’ identities which were used to file false tax returns.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - A new National Park Service report shows that 525,745 visitors to Biscayne National Park in 2014 spent $32,351,300 in communities near the park. That spending supported 459 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $44,794,000.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Affordable, clean, and secure energy and energy services are essential for improving U.S. economic productivity, enhancing quality of life, protecting the environment, and ensuring national security. To help the federal government meet these energy goals, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Jason Butler, 40, of Torrington, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on April 22, 2015, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, and marijuana. Butler was arrested in Weston County, Wyoming. He received 60 months imprisonment, to be followed...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Gettysburg Receives NPS Centennial Funding for Cemetery Ridge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Natchez, Miss - William Charles Carroll, a/k/a CC, 40, of Pearl, was sentenced on April 22, 2015 by U.S. District Judge David C. Bramlette III to 121 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine; and 60 months in prison for use of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking offense, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. The sentences will run consecutively for a total of 181 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Parris Benjamin Chisholm, age 24, of Millersville, Maryland, today to 16 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for armed robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, related to the robberies of cell phone stores.
