News from February 2015
By DOT News Wire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Maritime Administration Implements Certification of Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Training Program Providers. The Maritime Administration has begun certifying cruise vessel security and safety training program providers. As part of the voluntary certification, MARAD will review training plans and ...
By DOT News Wire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Nearly Three Trillion Miles Traveled in 2013 Underscores Call for Greater Transportation Investment
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Aviation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), will hold a roundtable policy discussion on Wednesday to examine the issues related to modernizing and improving the efficiency of the United States air traffic control (ATC) system.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Defrauded and Lied to Son and Two Granddaughters in Order to Steal Money Intended for Their Support and Care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Fausto Arthur Cruz Hernandez, 44, resident of Mexico, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to over 15 years in prison for bank robbery and for violating a previously imposed term of federal supervised release, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Hector Diaz, age 50, of Colombia, pled guilty this morning before U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to one count of visa fraud committed in facilitation of a drug trafficking crime and one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana, federal authorities announced. Diaz, who is free on bond, is scheduled to be sentenced on May 29, 2015 at 9:00 a.m. by the Honorable Judge Blackburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Defendant Jaime Balam (a/k/a “Tweety") appeared in U.S. District Court in San Francisco today following his extradition from Mexico on a variety of gang-related charges, including racketeering conspiracy and racketeering murder, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Tatum King, Acting Special Agent in Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury indictment, unsealed today, charges Jermaine Winters, 38 of Coleman, Florida, Senora Cotton, 24 of Chipley, Florida, Rosetta Presley, 22 of Chipley, Florida, and Fontella Keith, 47 of Chipley, Florida, with conspiracy, wire fraud and identity theft in connection...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: Two South Florida medical doctors and their wives have agreed to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act when their wives accepted sham marketer salaries in exchange for their husbands’ referrals to a home health care company called A Plus Home Health Care Inc., the Justice Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Huntington Beach woman was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $3.5 million from her former employer, a warehouse and trucking-services company.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittees on National Security, and Healthcare, Benefits and Administrative Rules, will hold a joint hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. The hearing will examine the Department of Homeland Security’s policies and procedures regarding non-citizens unlawfully present in the United States, and their impact on local law enforcement and public safety.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - A nearly $4 million construction project to improve roads within Lake Mead National Recreation Area will begin March 2.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: On March 20 and 21st, the National Park Service invites the public to the Visitor Education Center of Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park for 2 free screenings of a documentary film called “Children of the Camps.".
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: The official Boquillas Port of Entry crossing, providing access to Boquillas, Coahuila, Mexico, as well as the protected areas of Maderas del Carmen, Ocampo, and Cañon de Santa Elena, will start summer hours of operation beginning March 4, 2015. The change in hours is to accommodate the later sunset times occurring this time of year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - RICHARD HASTINGS, 19, of Mayfield, NY entered a plea of guilty in Albany today to production and possession of child pornography before Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Nicolas DiNicola, Assistant Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOHN D. STARKE; Rolla, Missouri, was sentenced today to 86 months in prison. Co-defendant CHRYSTAL J. STONE, also of Rolla, Missouri, was sentenced to 24 months in December, for their methamphetamine distribution activities, between October 2013 to May 2014, in Phelps County. They appeared before United States District Judge Audrey G. Fleissig.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to illegally possess a firearm and ammunition and for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: A Central Pennsylvania thoroughbred horse trainer who raced horses at Penn National Race Course in Grantville was in Dauphin County Court in Harrisburg was sentenced today to rigging races by administering drugs to horses on race day in violation of rules and regulations banning such treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for conspiring to illegally possess a firearm and ammunition and for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Terry L. Daugherty, 50, of Nellis, Boone County, West Virginia, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
