News from December 2015
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today dismissed a new bill from a group of Senate Democrats to formally designate the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) as permanent wilderness.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON (Dec. 2, 2015): The National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks, announced today that Noor Dphrepaulezz has been chosen to create Hawai‘i’s ornaments for the 2015 America Celebrates: Ornaments from Across the USA display at President’s Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Alejandro Vela, 33 of Buhl, Idaho, was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Vela to serve four years of supervised release following his release from prison. Vela pleaded guilty on August 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Manuel Patrick Camarillo, aka “Sick", age 25, of Siloam Springs, Arkansas was sentenced yesterday to 52 months in federal prison for two counts of Distribution of Methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - An Indiana resident was sentenced to more than two years in prison today for filing false federal income tax returns and perjury, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Deb Gilg and Nebraska Attorney General Doug Peterson announced that a Lincoln-area woman must repay more than $192,000 to the state of Nebraska and serve 12 weekends in jail over the next year after pleading guilty to committing health care fraud. Melissa Prentice-Erickson must also serve six months under house arrest and a 5 year term of probation, under a sentence handed down this afternoon by U.S. District Judge John Gerrard.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Reginald Martez Robinson, 35, of Saraland, was sentenced on Dec. 1, 2015, for his role in several home invasions and kidnappings during 2011. Robinson was indicted on the federal charges in 2014, and he entered a guilty plea to two of the charges, conspiracy to use a firearm in the commission of a crime of violence and kidnapping, in October of last year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: One Also Admits Stealing Section 8 Housing Assistance Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles E. Moynihan, who is handling the case, stated on February 4, 2014, during a pre-arranged meeting, Ruoff sold a.22 caliber revolver to an undercover law enforcement officer for $400.00. The manufacturer’s serial number on the firearm had been ground off, a fact which Ruoff acknowledged during the sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Luis Nieves, 33, of Haverhill, Massachusetts pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute it, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Essex County corrections officer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband, including cell phones and tobacco, into the Essex County Correctional Facility, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -In collaboration with events of the Crystal Coast Countdown, Superintendent Pat Kenney is pleased to welcome the public to the first climb of the year on Friday, Jan. 1, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service turns 100 years old in 2016 and wants everyone to celebrate! All national parks, including Joshua Tree National Park will waive entrance fees on 16 special days in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Tennessee businessman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to defrauding investors in connection with the fraudulent sale of millions of dollars of stock in a medical technology company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA KAN. - A Junction City man was sentenced Wednesday to life in federal prison for murdering a woman to keep her from giving information to federal law enforcement officers about his involvement in drug trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Ranking Member Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) issued the following statements today after the House passed a bipartisan, bicameral bill to replace No Child Left Behind and improve K-12 education. Known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (S. 1177), the bill passed the House by a vote of 359 to 64.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: The annual Christmas Bird Count will take place at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve on Tuesday, December 15. This event is co-sponsored by the Snake River Audubon Society. The Christmas Bird Count is an international effort to count wintering birds in the western hemisphere. Craters of the Moon offers a unique winter time birding experience. Participants of all experience and skill levels are welcome.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK: The General Electric Company (“GE") has agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to resolve a complaint alleging violations of federal and state environmental laws in connection with GE’s use of an incinerator at a manufacturing facility that it once owned and operated in Waterford...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced today Paul Edward Baalerud, 56, formerly of Charlotte, to 14 years in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Baalerud was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Franklin American Mortgage Company has agreed to pay the United States $70 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that did not meet applicable requirements, the Justice Department announced today. Franklin American is headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee.
