News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CYNTHIA TANNER, 54, of Darien, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to fraud and tax evasion offenses stemming from her embezzlement of approximately $800,000 from a Connecticut-based veterans services organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Missouri men who were leaders of a $28.5 million drug trafficking organization in the Kansas City metro area were sentenced Tuesday to 162 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Lincoln Normando Moquete, age 44, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida today to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy and for possession with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Moquete was convicted by a federal jury on Sept. 18, 2015, after a five day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed today charging a Brooklyn, New York man with sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced the unsealing of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury charging THOMAS J. TANNER, JR., age 49, of engaging in a scheme to defraud his former employer, ISC Constructors, LLC, along with Chevron U.S.A., Inc., of $1,300,000.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following floor remarks in the United States House of Representatives supporting the Combat Terrorist Use of Social Media Act of 2015 (H.R. 3654 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two Missouri men who were leaders of a $28.5 million drug trafficking organization in the Kansas City metro area were sentenced Tuesday to 162 months in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement on today’s announcement of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Holmdel, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a stock market manipulation scheme that artificially inflated the stock price of four publicly traded companies through manipulative trading and other fraudulent means, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: The holiday season is a great time to visit Rocky Mountain National Park. In addition to beautiful scenery, wildlife viewing and a variety of winter recreational activities to do on your own, fun activities with park rangers are also offered. Rocky Mountain National Park has a calendar full of fun family activities for the holidays.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: The Great Basin Geographic Area, in conjunction with the Forest Service Intermountain Region, will be soliciting for the following equipment to be utilized on fire emergency incidents under the Virtual Incident Procurement (VIPR) system:- Heavy Equipment with Water (skidgines, skidders, pumper cats)-...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Former Russian Nuclear Energy Official Sentenced to 48 Months in Prison for Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Violations.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation will lower the level of Lake Moovalya by approximately one foot in elevation for about two weeks beginning in early January 2016. Lake Moovalya is the small body of water behind Headgate Rock Dam north of Parker, Arizona. Reclamation is coordinating this activity with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to allow the Colorado River Indian Tribes to perform annual maintenance on their canals.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert William McAllaster, 50, of Lapwai, Idaho, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for sexual abuse of a child, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. United States District Judge Stanley A. Bastian, a visiting judge from the Eastern District of Washington assigned to hear some Idaho cases, also ordered McAllaster to serve 15 years of supervised release upon his release from prison. McAllaster pleaded guilty to the charge on Sept. 15, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Shasta Lake, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Scoping Report on the Long-Term Plan for Protecting Late Summer Adult Salmon in the Lower Klamath River.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Leader of Crack Trafficking Organization Faces Prison Sentence of Thirty Years to Life; Prosecution Brought Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, spoke on the Senate floor Tuesday alongside his colleagues Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in support of S. 579, the Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal indictment was unsealed yesterday charging RICHARD V. KELLY, 43, from Houston, Texas, with 12 counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with a scheme that defrauded local company Midwest Hose and Specialties, Inc., by falsely billing for deliveries that were never...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 31-year-old Corpus Christi man has been sentenced following his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. James Lee Coddington pleaded guilty Sept. 3, 2015.
