News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: A Broward County tax preparer was sentenced to 33 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $58,626.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Berg Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a “Berg Sportswear" of Corinna, Maine was fined $10,000 today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. for trafficking in counterfeit goods. The defendant was also placed on probation for one year and ordered to pay $11,855.67 in restitution. The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge on June 23, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: All climbing routes and summit areas at Devils Tower National Monument are reopened after peregrine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today commended President Obama for signing into law a bill that designates three new wilderness areas encompassing about 275,665 acres in Idaho as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System; releases four wilderness study areas so that the land...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Strawberry Valley, Utah - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Upper Colorado Regional Office and Provo Area Office will hold the 19th annual Catch a Special Thrill (C.A.S.T.) for Kids fishing event at Strawberry Reservoir.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Who: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Eastern States OfficeWhat: The BLM will hold a Wild Horse and Burro adoption within a short drive from the Nation's capital. Approximately 40 wild horses will be available, ranging in age from yearling to 5 years old. Visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Yates, North Dakota, woman convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Aug. 3, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Berg, 52, of Corinna, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 6 months in prison and one year of supervised release for being an accessory after the fact to the manufacture of 1,000...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The chief of the Lawrence Police Department and the president of the Kansas State Conference of the NAACP will take part in the Kansas Civil Rights Symposium next week, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Defendant Faces 35 to 70 Years in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Bryan Shane Sneed (41, Lutz) guilty of attempted enticement of a minor for sex and possession of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 29, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Carolyn Hall, 53, of McLeansboro, Illinois, entered a plea of guilty to a one-count indictment that charged embezzlement and theft from a labor union, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Hall faces a prison sentence of up to 5 years, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to 3 years’ supervised release. Sentencing has been scheduled for Dec. 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Aaron J. Mango and Bradley E. Tyler, who handled the case, stated that between May 2008 and September of 2008, the defendant used a file sharing internet program to receive and distribute child pornography. The images included prepubescent minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Tiffany H. Lee and Bradley E. Tyler, who are handling the case, stated that between January 2012 and February 2012, the defendant enticed a female victim who was under the age of 18 to engage in commercial sex acts. The victim, who was 16 years old, was taken to a Caroline Street...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents for the Carson River Diversion Dam and Derby Diversion Dam Tender Houses Demolition and Removal Project, located in the Newlands Project in western Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Mark Hamlet, the Special Agent in Charge of the Special Operations Division of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced the extradition of EDMUND QUINCY MUNTSLAG, a citizen of Suriname...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: LORAIN, Ohio - While Republic Steel has made a significant investment in personnel, training and safety improvements, workers are still exposed to serious fall and chemical hazards at the company's century-old Lorain steel mill, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have found.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation's Pacific Northwest Region has announced that Clint Wertz will be the new Ephrata Field Office Manager. He is presently serving in this position in a temporary capacity and will assume permanent duties Aug. 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN VASQUEZ-ALVARADO, age 47, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
