News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Nima Golestaneh, 30, an Iranian national, pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and unauthorized access to computers related to his involvement in the October 2012 hacking of a Vermont-based engineering consulting and software company.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Hearing Overview. Today’s Subcommittee on Federal Lands hearing featured a discussion draft of the National Park Service Centennial Act offered by Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah). Bishop’s draft bill is modeled on the Obama Administration’s proposal, which was introduced in September by Ranking Member Grijalva...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Eminence, MO:Ozark National Scenic Riverways is hosting an old fashioned Christmas celebration for the public at the Alley General Store on Saturday, Dec. 12, from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) hosted a bipartisan meeting with Moshe “Bogie" Ya’alon, Israel’s Minster of Defense, to discuss shared national security interests.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANGELA MITCHELL, age 40, of Mandeville, pled guilty to Theft of Mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 1, 2015, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Larry L. Turk (age: 68) of Appleton, Wisconsin, charging him with one count of distributing child pornography in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A (a)(2) and one count of possessing child pornography in violation of Title, 18 United States Code, Section 2252A (a)(5)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Convicted on Hobbs Act and Felony Murder Charges Arising out of Armed Robbery of Two Albuquerque-Area Restaurants and the Murder of Stephanie Anderson in June 2009.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The owner and two employees of a New Jersey defense contracting business were charged today in connection with an alleged scheme to fraudulently acquire lucrative manufacturing contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Paid Healthcare Providers to Falsely Claim Tests Were Necessary, Defrauding Medicare of More than $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Man Pleads Guilty to Facilitating Computer Hacking of Vermont Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Pleads Guilty in Separate Attack; Crimes Took Place Within Five-Week Period.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Candice L. White, age 43, of Centennial, Colorado, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 3 months in prison, followed by 5 years supervised release with a condition of 200 hours of community service, for the crime of embezzlement by a bank officer or employee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 255 months in prison for his role in three gunpoint carjackings and an attempted carjacking within a one-week period and to firing his gun during one of the robberies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON - The owner of a local produce business in Scott County, Ky., has admitted to fraudulently obtaining business loans, by falsifying information on the loan applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - An Elizabeth, New Jersey, man today admitted recruiting straw buyers and submitting bogus loan applications as part of large-scale mortgage fraud scheme involving properties in northern New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that SHAUKAT G. DALAL, also known as Shaukathusein Dalal, 55, of East Hartford, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of tax evasion.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) researchers are seeing the light, but in an altogether different way. And how they are doing it just might be the semiconductor industry's ticket for extending its use of optical microscopes to measure computer chip features that are approaching 10 nanometers, tiny fractions of the wavelength of light.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - U.S. District Court Judge Abdul K. Kallon today sentenced former Huntsville Police Officer Brett Russell, 48, to 18 months in prison for violating the civil rights of a Huntsville man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Odis Charles Grant, Jr., age 30, aka “Flawless", of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release after pleading guilty...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Watrous, NM: As the holiday season brings family and friends close together, the staff of Fort Union National Monument cordially invites you to enjoy an afternoon at Fort Union National Monument's Holiday Open House. The Open House will occur on Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 between 2:00 PM -4:00 PM at...
