News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - On Monday, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced five Fresno residents for violations of federal firearm laws, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Samuel A. Hart, a former Correctional Officer of Escambia County Detention Center, has entered a guilty plea today to sexually assaulting a federal inmate that was in his custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Thomas A. Munson, 76, from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, has been charged with one count of embezzlement and theft. The charge is contained in an Information filed on December 8, 2015, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles art dealer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle looted archeological resources into the United States, and then using those antiquities as the basis of a charitable donation tax fraud scheme involving local museums.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park implemented the final phase of its Commercial Services Strategy for guided commercial climbing in the park. This past July, park staff released a prospectus for up to six concession contracts for Instruction and Guide Services in Technical Mountaineering. These contracts were recently awarded to.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Winter season operations began Tuesday, December 15 in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. The winter season brings many unique opportunities for enjoyment of the park and parkway, which are open year-round, though visitors should be aware that most visitor services are closed for the season.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: This study, the first of its kind, measured carbon storing, or “carbon sequestration," in the coastal wetlands and the narrow, fringing marshes of living shorelines in North Carolina. A recent NOAA study offsite link, published in the journal PLOS One, shows “living shorelines " - protected and stabilized shorelines using natural materials such as plants, sand, and rock - can help to keep carbon out of the atmosphere, helping to blunt the effects of climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted Manuel Valadez-Mirales, for illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Garry Christopher Forsythe, 42, of Hendersonville, Tenn., pleaded guilty on December 11th to wire fraud, announced United States Attorney David Rivera. Forsythe, a licensed Tennessee lawyer and former owner of Forsythe Title and Escrow, a real estate closing company with offices in Nashville, Brentwood, Hendersonville, and other locations, admitted to misusing escrow funds provided by real estate buyers and lenders.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact that will allow the Bureau of Land Management to expand its Atwell Island Project, mostly made up of 7,000 acres of retired farm land in Tulare County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Peoria, Ill. - A former employee of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, Melissa Gilmer, 41, of Tremont, Ill, waived indictment today and entered a plea of guilty to an information charging her with the offense of bribery, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois. Gilmer, of the 500 block of W. Tazewell St., appeared today before U.S. District Judge Joe B. McDade. Sentencing has been scheduled on Mar. 30, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Yosemite Child Care Center/Yosemite National Park Child Care Center (YCCC/YNPCC) is a non-profit organization inside the park that was run from about 1997-2009 by then-director Charity Brocchini. When allegations were made of financial impropriety at its two child care centers, the NPS Investigative Services Branch and the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General launched a multi-year investigation.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the decision by the Millennium Challenge Corporation Board to select Kosovo as eligible to begin developing an MCC Compact...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, reacted to updates the Department of Homeland Security has made to the National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS). The National Terrorism Advisory System was created in 2011 to replace...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former corrections officer for a federal correctional institution in Arkansas has been indicted for attempting to smuggle contraband into the facility. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the indictment today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MICHAEL JAMES SEWARD, president of the now-defunct, unregistered commodities trading pool SK Madison Commodities, LLC (“SK Madison"), was sentenced to 18 months in prison in connection with his misappropriation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two doctors and a registered nurse were sentenced to prison today for their roles at the center of a $50 million health care fraud scheme in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former teller for a bank in Burlington has been indicted on charges of embezzling approximately $700,000 from the bank, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Recardeo Harris, 32, of Jackson, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to 96 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Harris was also ordered to pay a $1500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal Grand Jury in Harrisburg has returned an indictment charging Peter Fragoso, age 18, with distribution of heroin and the possession of a weapon in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Fragoso, a resident of Dauphin County, is also charged with possessing a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
