News from August 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Telly Savalas Riley, a/k/a KoJak, 39, from Crescent, Georgia was sentenced last week by United States District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 146 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization. Defendant Riley was the last of 22 defendants sentenced for running a drug-trafficking organization that operated out of Savannah, Atlanta, South Carolina and elsewhere.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and the Roosevelt -Vanderbilt National Historic Sites want to give you a present -free admission ! They are also marking the event by breaking ground for the restoration of the Roosevelt Home Garden by tilling the two-acre garden site.This...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colo. - As part of the Department of the Interior’s commitment to responsible and balanced domestic energy development, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced the completion of the Dinosaur Trail and Shale Ridges and Canyons Master Leasing Plans (MLPs) in Northwest Colorado. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Catholic priest who touched a woman’s breast, inner thigh and groin on an overnight cross-country airplane flight was sentenced today to one year - a term that will include six months in federal prison and six months of home confinement.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Date of action: Aug. 6, 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Resource Advisory Council (RAC)/Recreation Resource Advisory Council (RecRAC) will host a meeting Sept. 9-10, 2015, in Monticello, Utah.On Sept. 9, the RAC will take a field tour of Alkali Ridge, in Blanding, Utah. Topics of discussion include reviewing archaeological...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Like Many Baltimore Criminals Caught with a Gun, Repeat Offender Will Spend Rest of his Life in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Prosecutions represent one of the most significant investigations to date in the United States regarding synthetic cannabinoid trafficking which resulted in more than 220 Spice-related emergency room visits in Colorado in the Fall of 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, NY -Fire Island National Seashore announced today that West Nile Virus (WNV)-infected mosquitoes have been found on Fire Island. The mosquitoes were collected on August 14 from a trap set by the Seashore as part of its Mosquito Monitoring Program on federal land near Watch Hill. The Mosquito Monitoring Program is a collaborative effort between the Seashore and Suffolk County Department of Health Services, which announced the positive WNV result on August 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Javier Solis, 29, of Fresno, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to 11 years and nine months in prison for sex trafficking of a minor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. On Aug. 17, 2015, co‑defendant Michael Anthony Andrade, 34, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Dr. Paul S. Singh, 55, of Tehachapi, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud for a scheme to defraud his patients and their insurers by implanting and billing for unapproved intrauterine devices (IUDs), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is turning 99 years old on August 25 and the Roosevelt -Vanderbilt National Historic Sites want to give you a present -free admission ! They are also marking the event by breaking ground for the restoration of the Roosevelt Home Garden by tilling the two-acre garden site.This...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Commemorate Labor Day Weekend with a Special Living History Event.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: WHAT: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial hosts special activities in honor of the 99th anniversary of the founding of the National Park Service on Tuesday, August 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell sentenced John Robert Haldemann (31, Naples) today to 17 years and 7 months in federal prison for committing three armed bank robberies. As part of his sentence, the Court entered a money judgment in the amount of $14,308, representing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Hurricane man who threw guns from his car during a traffic stop on I-64 was sentenced today to five years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. John Anthony Roberts, 47, plead guilty May of 2015 in federal court in Huntington to obstruction of justice.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Today in Las Vegas, President Obama and Energy Secretary Moniz announced at the Clean Energy Summit $24 million in innovation funding for 11 new solar technologies, as part of ARPA-E’s newest program, MOSAIC. Short for Micro-scale Optimized Solar-cell Arrays with Integrated Concentration, MOSAIC projects seek to develop a new class of cost-effective, high-performance solar energy modules.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Ronnie Lee Shelton, 43, and Brenda Lee Bolton, 46, both of Greeneville, Tenn., Eric Matthew Vance, 33, of Blountville, Tenn., and Geri Kim Ward, 33, of Church Hill, Tenn., were sentenced between August 18 and Aug. 20, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, Senior United States District Judge David Ezra sentenced a San Antonio businessman to federal prison for his role in an estimated $1.65 million Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food stamp fraud scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant is the former owner of Federal Guaranty Mortgage Company in the State of Florida. Garcia recruited “straw buyers" to obtain mortgages from M&T Bank and other financial institutions then misrepresented their assets...
