News from February 2015
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area is celebrating its 50thanniversary this year and the National Park Service (NPS) will commemorate its 100thanniversary in 2016. "We're very excited to be commemorating these big events over the next two years," said Superintendent John J. Donahue. "These anniversaries...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANGEL LARA-MERIDA, age 44, a native of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday on a one-count Indictment for making a false claim of citizenship in order to obtain employment, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1015(e).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Former West Virginia Division of Highways administrator Edward Matthew Tuttle, 39, of Buckhannon, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court for misleading the Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Glenn Ming Young Paid United States Bureau Of Prisons Correctional Officer More Than $2,000 To Smuggle Telephone And Tobacco Into United States Penitentiary Lee County, Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: HOUSE OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE, BENEFITS, AND ADMIN. RULES
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DEBORAH FORTNER, age 52, of New Orleans, was indicted today for submitting false documents to the Louisiana Road Home Program (“LRHP"), a federally-funded agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Consuelo “Connie" Puente was sentenced today to 4 years imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $779,854.53 for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Bogdan Kmet, 30, of Warminster, PA, an owner of Life Support Corporation, Rostislav Kmet, 26, of Philadelphia, a company manager, and Life Support, Inc., were sentenced today to 36 months in prison, 46 months in prison, and five years of probation, respectively, for an extensive health...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic Members of the House Natural Resources Committee held a groundbreaking roundtable discussion today with six of the country’s leading Latino organizations as part of Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva’s efforts to build a broader environmental coalition with an inclusive agenda...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), at today’s Labor-Health and Human Services-Education Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, called for more support for the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Administration for Community Living. Her opening remarks noted that SSA’s operating budget, in particular, has been cut by more than $1.2 billion since 2010, after adjusting for inflation.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is soliciting public comments via the National Park Service (NPS) public comment website (PEPC) and US Mail concerning possible fee increases in 2015 and 2016. Under the park's proposal, the entrance fee to the reconstructed stockade site would change from $3 to...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that STOKLEY AUSTIN, age 33, of Marrero, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to distribution and possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and a quantity of cocaine base (“crack"), possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DENNIS NUNEZ-LACAYO, age 28, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RONELL HANKS, also known as “Biz" and “Ace," 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 204 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for heading a large Bridgeport-based narcotics trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE ORELLANA, age 35, a native of Honduras, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Indictment for illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James P. Vasiliou, Jr., 49, of Lockport, NY, who was convicted of bank (mortgage) fraud, was sentenced to time service and nine months of home detention and electronic monitoring by U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Jorge Enrique Barragan-Gutierrez, 22, of Bellflower, California, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Feb. 25, 2015, on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana; one count of possession...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) today recognized the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) and San Isabel Electric Association (San Isabel) of Colorado as the 2014 WINDExchange Wind Cooperatives of the Year. The awards were presented at the NRECA TechAdvantage Conference and Expo in Orlando, Florida, to honor electric cooperatives that demonstrate outstanding leadership in advancing U.S. wind power.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Troy Jamson Normil, 19, to 124 months in federal prison for carjacking and brandishing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment today against Gabriela Carter, 43, resident of Sacramento, charging her with bank fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
