News from April 2015
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced nearly $8 million to advance research and development of next-generation heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) technologies, supporting the Administration's goal of saving money by saving energy, and phasing down the use of chemicals that have a devastating effect on the global climate.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to a month in federal prison and ordered to pay $38,000 in restitution to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Stole More Than $800,000 From His Company’s Retirement Plan To Pay For Corporate And Personal Expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Stamford Pharmacy, located at 1055 High Ridge Road in Stamford, has entered into a civil settlement with the government to resolve allegations that it violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act. Stamford Pharmacy has agreed to pay a total of $45,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced that R.J. Zavoral & Sons, Inc., John Zavoral, Peter Zavoral and Craig Pietruszewski have agreed to pay $1.85 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Josue Joel Castaneda-Cuyuch, 31, a citizen of Guatemala, who was convicted of illegal reentry after having been previously deported and removed from the United States, was sentenced to time served (seven months) by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Fire Island, New York -On March 23 Stout Construction Inc. was issued a Notice to Proceed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to begin work on a marina upgrade at Sailors Haven. The $1,087,000 project is funded and managed by the FHWA through their Emergency Relief for Federally Owned Lands...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Bowling Green armed career criminal pleaded guilty to several charges today in U.S. District Court, including conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana, cocaine and cocaine base, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and maintaining a residence for the purpose of distributing controlled substances, announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a civil penalty of $142,750 against GoJet Airlines, LLC of Bridgeton, Mo., for allegedly violating drug and alcohol testing regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Firm’s Ownership Structure Rendered it Ineligible for Small Business Administration Grants.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Jack Mayfield, Jr., 49, of Newport, Tenn., and James Carrol Hickman, 41, of Dandridge, Tenn., have each been convicted and sentenced for aiding and abetting in the illegal production of distilled spirits by a person who was not an authorized distiller (illegal production of “moonshine").
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - Family Dermatology P.C. which owns and operates a dermatopathology laboratory in Georgia and a number of dermatology practices throughout the Eastern United States, has agreed to pay the United States $3,247,835 plus interest to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with a number of its employed physicians, the Justice Department announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Vietnamese labor activist Do Thi Minh Hanh, who recently spent four years in prison for distributing leaflets to factory workers, has urged that the Trans-Pacific Partnership not be concluded until Vietnam guarantees and promotes worker rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Toms River, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing heroin and cocaine as part of a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty for his participation in an identity theft fraud scheme involving $322,000 in cashed tax refund checks.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Distributed Cocaine, Heroin and Meth over wide region including ‘The Jungle’ near International District in Seattle.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a Toms River, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing heroin and cocaine as part of a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex counties.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver. (307) 344-2015. e-mail us. Yellowstone National Park staff members will travel to nearby communities next week to talk with anglers about the ongoing efforts to restore native fish species, the threat of aquatic invasive species and the park’s fishing regulations. In addition to the general...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former North Chicago school board member, and the last defendant of five, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for receiving at least $566,000 in kickbacks from three co-defendants who controlled several different transportation companies that received more than $21 million in student bus contracts over nearly a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, announce that Inaldo Chavez, 57, of Hialeah, Caridad Baez, 50, of Hialeah...
