News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 68-year-old Sayre, Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, to possessing child pornography and participating in a wire fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Shreveport woman pleaded guilty to stealing more than $39,000 in Social Security benefit payments.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the U.S. Forest Service for its ongoing failure to actively manage Alaska’s national forest lands and for breaking a promise made to Alaska over a century ago to support public schools and roads in communities surrounded by tax-exempt federal property.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: CARTAGENA, Colombia - Fourteen Colombian law enforcement officials completed a weeklong counternarcotic training in an unconventional classroom - underwater. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) provided the training to the officials representing the Colombian Navy and the Colombian Anti-Narcotics Police.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the launch of five separate bipartisan Finance Committee Tax Working Groups to spur congressional comprehensive tax reform efforts in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the guilty pleas of TIMOTHY VAMVAKIAS, a former member of the U.S. Army, and DENNIS GOGEL, a former member of the German armed forces, to charges that include conspiracy to murder an agent of the Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Admits he Attempted to Produce Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Allen Harragarra, 34, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Yah-Ta-Hay, N.M., was sentenced today to 66 months in federal prison for his voluntary manslaughter conviction. Harragarra will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence. He also was ordered to pay $2,689.41 in restitution to cover the victim’s funeral expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Two men who conspired together to use counterfeit credit cards to make hundreds of thousands of dollars of purchases at various Sam’s Club store locations in North Texas and Missouri, have been sentenced, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr., will join with members of the Middle District of Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force, the Northern District of Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force, and the Southern District of Alabama Human Trafficking Task Force for a meeting tomorrow...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: National Park Service compendiums for Alaska will be open for a 30-day public comment period. A compendium - one for each NPS area in Alaska -- is a compilation of all designations, closures and restrictions adopted under the discretionary authority within the regulations covering national parks. This regulatory tool helps manage Alaska's national park areas for the public’s enjoyment, use and protection.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is re-opening the public comment period on proposed regulations which focus on the sport hunting of wildlife in Alaska’s national preserves. The comment period will run from January 15 through Feb. 15, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after the World Trade Organization Appellate Body affirmed the sweeping victory handed to the United States earlier by a WTO dispute settlement panel in a challenge to Argentina’s broad import restrictions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The owner and operator of a Brockton physical therapy company and her employee were sentenced today for defrauding insurance companies in connection with physical therapy services purportedly provided to patients involved in car accidents.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Beverly Carden, age 53, and her husband Kevin Carden, age 54, both formerly of Bel Air, Maryland, yesterday on charges arising from a scheme to steal at least $2.5 million from their clients and the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Continued To Collect Dead Mother-in-Law’s Benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Tutoring Program. Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has obtained civil judgments against seven former employees of The Academic Advantage (“Academic Advantage") in connection with their role in a scheme whereby...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS-Ronald Joseph Fourhorns, 31, of Browning, Montana, was sentenced today-Jan. 15, 2014-to 210 months in federal prison for robbing the Native American Bank in Browning in March of last year, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Four Horns was also sentenced to three years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: A new insight into the fundamental mechanics of the movement of molecules recently published* by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) offers a surprising view of what happens when you pour a liquid out of a cup. More important, it provides a theoretical foundation for a molecular-level process that must be controlled to ensure the stability of important protein-based drugs at room temperature.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
Release: by Phil Karsting, Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
