News from February 2015
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ -March is Arizona Archaeology and.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PHILIP BRYANT, also known as “Phat Phil" and “Fizzy," 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: For 14 years, the United States and Italian governments have been in a bilateral agreement that protects Italy’s cultural heritage by imposing import restrictions on pre-classical, classical and Imperial Roman archaeological material.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Branson, Mo., EMT and a Joplin, Mo., couple are among five persons indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday in four separate and unrelated cases related to the sexual...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Hilldale, a civil engineer at Reclamation's Technical Service Center in Denver, is Reclamation's Engineer of the Year for 2015. His achievements earned him a chance to compete as Reclamation's nominee for the 2015 Federal Engineer of the Year Award, sponsored by the National Society...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that AVA SMITH, age 21, of Harvey, was indicted today for delay or destruction of mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LAZARO CARBAJAL-AVILES, age 43, a Mexican citizen, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: (NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Philip Bryant, also known as “Phat Phil" and “Fizzy," 28, of New Haven, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 135 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: KERRVILLE, Texas - Dr. Richard B. Debenedetto, of Kerville, TX, has been sentenced to six years imprisonment in a Texas State Correctional Facility for prescribing a controlled substance with no legitimate medical purpose, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. (Houston Division), Kerr County District Attorney E. Bruce Curry, Kerr County Sheriff Rusty Heirholzer, and City of Kerrville Interim Chief of Police David Knight.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: “As a unanimous jury has found, for nearly a decade, Khaled al Fawwaz played a critical role for al Qaeda in its murderous conspiracy against America. Dedicating himself to al Qaeda in the early 1990s, Fawwaz was one of Osama bin Laden's original and most trusted lieutenants, serving first as the leader...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH - The National Park Service is pleased to announce the availability of the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the repair or replacement of the Fort Pulaski Bridge at the Fort Pulaski National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Three individuals have been arrested - one of whom was arrested in Colombia - for more than $2.4 million in Medicare and Medicaid fraud. The defendants in this case allegedly defrauded Medicaid and Medicare by paying and receiving kickbacks and bribes in return for creating and providing false and fraudulent home health prescriptions and plans of care to patient recruiters and causing the submission of false and fraudulent claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Juan Carlos Garcia, 44, of Moorefield, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dion Jordan, 35, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by indictment with attempted bank robbery, bank robbery, armed bank robbery, and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The charges arise...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Cherica Daniels has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States and aggravated identity theft. She faces a maximum penalty of seven years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Daniels was indicted on Sept. 10, 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) today held a hearing to examine the effects of Executive Order 13673, which may deny employers federal contracts if they or their ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: ELIDA, Ohio - An employee complaint led inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to a wood pallet manufacturing facility in Elida operated by A & D Wood Products, where they found workers at risk of amputation, explosion and other life-threatening hazards.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Ranking Member Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) introduced a bill Thursday to amend the Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: On Feb. 25, 2015, April M. Elliot, 34, of Pomona, was sentenced on a methamphetamine violation, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Raymond Rysheem E. Starr, 21, of Philadelphia, PA was charged today by indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
