News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Stuart Bruce Zidell, 64, of Spring, has entered a plea of guilty to committing bankruptcy fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Clinton Leroy Skippings, 58, of Hobbs, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, 5th...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Nester Leon (26, Orlando) guilty of carjacking, and using and carrying a firearm that was discharged in relation to that carjacking. Leon faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison for the carjacking conviction, and a mandatory minimum of 10 years’, up to life imprisonment, for the firearm conviction. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Marva Rice, former Probate Judge for Hancock County,was sentenced today by the Honorable Judge Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia for two counts of theft of federal funds from Hancock County. Ms. Rice was sentenced to serve 21 months in federal prison and pay restitution in the amount of $63,864.70 to Hancock County.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - A 42-year-old worker fell 16 feet to his death and a 25-year-old co-worker suffered serious injuries after their employer, Roeder Construction, failed to provide either man with fall protection as they worked on a roof, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Demetrius Sharron Davis (33, St. Petersburg) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, tampering with a witness, and obstruction of justice. He faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for May 4, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, today told Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz that DOE’s $29.9 billion fiscal year 2016 budget proposal falls short on fossil energy investment and ignores a true “all of the above" energy policy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, Feb. 19 at the Colorado River Valley Field Office, 2300 River Frontage Road in Silt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Seth Grim, 21, of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Ryon Rudy James Herbst, 27, of Lander, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Feb. 10, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin. Herbst was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 70 months imprisonment, to be followed by four...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Joel Sesma-Garcia, 40, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2015, and Gerald Fidel Herrera, 41, was sentenced on Jan. 30, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 25 years and 15 years imprisonment, respectively, for their roles in a cocaine distribution ring that operated from 2008 to 2012 and spanned five states. Both are from Tucson, Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal court jury in Providence on Tuesday convicted a Providence woman of making false statements regarding her marital status in order to collect more than $47,000 in widower’s benefits from the Social Security Administration following the death of her former husband, announced...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: A recent deliberate vandalism incident occurred in the off-season (closed) Cape Point Campground on Tuesday evening, Feb. 10, 2015.NPS Rangers are investigating vandalism to multiple loops of the Cape Point Campground where a vehicle drove off the paved access road and over vegetation destroying significant areas of sensitive grass and low lying areas with tire tracks.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Whether you drive, bike, run or walk, you may visit the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for free President’s Day weekend.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Clara Barton National Historic Site will change its operating hours and public tour schedule beginning Feb. 17, 2015. The house will be open for public tours on weekends and for pre-arranged groups on Wednesdays and Thursdays. It will be closed all other times.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former bank president was charged today for his role in a bank fraud scheme in which he is alleged to have hidden underperforming and at-risk loans from the bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), among others, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the threat of ISIS. The hearing, entitled “The Growing Strategic Threat of ISIS, " is the first in the Committee’s review of the President’s request for authorization to use military force against ISIS.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy is hosting the 10th in a series of planned strategic energy development forums for tribal leaders and interested staff on “Tribal Energy Systems: Climate Preparedness and Resiliency." The forum will be held on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. at the Thunder Valley Resort in Lincoln, California, near Sacramento.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.)- Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) today reintroduced the Healthy Families Act, legislation that would allow workers to earn paid sick leave to use when they are sick, to care for a sick family member, to obtain preventive care, or to address the impacts of domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, leaders on the international trade and judicial committees in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives called on the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Francis Gurry, to ensure all WIPO members have an equal voice in amending the Lisbon...
