News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - Thomas G. Walker, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina has submitted his resignation to President Barack Obama effective January 7, 2016. Mr. Walker will be returning to private practice.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today it has issued a Notice of Intent to fund up to two institutes as part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI). For its first institutes, the Commerce Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: James A. Wiehe, 54, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp, Chief Judge, sentenced Wiehe to six years imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison, he will begin a five-year term of supervised release and will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cecil Sylvester Chester, age 68, of Mitchellville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to charges arising from the fraudulent purchase of seven properties in Baltimore, using fraudulent loan documentation and straw purchasers, resulting in losses of over $1.7 million.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Since 1986, the third Monday in January has been designated as a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence. On this day, the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Concealed His Role as Seller of the Properties and Recipient of the Sales Proceeds Through Fake Identities; Also Used Fake Down Payments, Fake Collateral and False Contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is accepting applications beginning Dec. 22, 2015 through Jan. 29, 2016, for its spring Artists-in-Residence (AiR) program, at the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (GSENM) as a premier event in the midst of the 2016 year-long celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the establishment of GSENM: Learning from the Land, Learning from Each Other.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Suspects Include Three with Previous Felony Convictions; Illegally Purchased Firearms Include a Machine Gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN CUNEY, of East Greenbush, New York, was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to 37 months in prison for transporting and selling firearms with obliterated serial numbers while he was a licensed firearms dealer. CUNEY pled guilty on June 1, 2015. He was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vincent L. Briccetti.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that STAG ARMS LLC, a firearms manufacturer in New Britain, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to violating federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Victor R. DeAnthony, Jr., 47, of Leesburg, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud for embezzling up to $3.5 million from a business based in Herndon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kevin Rebbie, 56, of Royersford, PA, pleaded guilty today to child pornography charges that included 19 counts of manufacturing child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Moab, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Moab Field Office today issued a decision approving a new nine-mile non-motorized mountain bike trail in the Sand Flats Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced today that Coloplast Corp., a manufacturer of ostomy and continence care products, and Liberator Medical Supply, Inc., a medical products supplier, have agreed to pay $3,160,000 and $500,000, respectively, to resolve allegations that Coloplast paid unlawful kickbacks to several medical suppliers, including Liberator, to induce them to conduct promotional campaigns designed to refer individual users to Coloplast products.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $62,653.00 on her conviction of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: GLEN JEAN,WEST VIRGINIA: This new year brings about an exciting celebration in America, the 100thanniversary of the National Park Service. Parks across the U.S. will host centennial events throughout 2016, including New River Gorge National River. The first local event to kick off 2016 is a 100 Mile Challenge. Celebrate these 100 years by hiking 100 miles or more on trails in New River Gorge National River and Bluestone National Scenic River in 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 37 members to the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board. Thirty-six appointees will serve 3-year terms and one appointee will serve a 1-year term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Roanoke Chemical Distributor, Chem-Solv Inc., Pleads Guilty to Illegally Storing and Transporting Hazardous Waste and Agrees to Pay $1.5 Million in Penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015, against Nelli Kesoyan, 43, of Rancho Cordova, charging her with making false entries and reports, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GALEN MARSH was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to pay $600,000 in restitution for obtaining confidential client information from his employer, Morgan Stanley, by gaining unauthorized access...
