News from January 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup of the Hire More Heroes Act, H.R. 22...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Scott Edward Carroll, 49, of Traverse City, Michigan, pled guilty on Jan. 28, 2015, in United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan to a misdemeanor information filed on Jan. 13, charging him with willfully failing to timely file an income tax return...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man whose attempt at cooking methamphetamine resulted in a fire that damaged several mobile homes in Hiawatha pled guilty on Jan. 27, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids. Michael Landon Monroe Lala, age 28, from Hiawatha, Iowa, was convicted of attempt to manufacture methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Marc E. Bercoon and William A. Goldstein have been indicted and arrested on federal charges that they manipulated the market for shares of Medcareers Group, Inc., a publicly traded company, and that they carried out a second investment fraud scheme using a new business corporation that they organized as the bait for investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Leonel Padilla, Andres Diaz and Jonni Diaz were sentenced yesterday in Northwest Arkansas to a total of over 32 years in federal prison for drug trafficking offenses. Padilla, age 27...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: A Miami Dade County resident was sentenced today to 51 months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for conspiring with another defendant to launder money from purported narcotics transactions.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee today released subcommittee assignments for Republicans members in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kyle Morrow, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning to possession of a visual depiction of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Morrow’s plea agreement requires that he be sentenced to 120 months in prison because of his prior child pornography conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: DEFENDANT RECEIVED 100 PERCENT DISABILITY BENEFITS FROM BOTH AGENCIES WHILE WORKING.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 55-year-old Dallas former mortgage broker has pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Georgia Bowen, a/k/a Georgia Bennett, 39, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio to health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. The health fraud charge carries a maximum sentence of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today to 17 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of drug trafficking and illegal firearm possession.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: PAGO PAGO, American Samoa-Due to erosion issues, emergency repairs are in progress along the Mount ‘Alava trail and road for the next few weeks. Large equipment and vehicles will be present along the trail and road during this time. The public is advised to watch for approaching vehicles and to use extra...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, CA - The public is welcome to comment on a proposed project by the National Park Service (NPS) to mitigate tree hazards by (primarily) removing dead and dying trees that pose a risk to public safety in the Cedar Grove area of Kings Canyon National Park. A total...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - George Yarbrough, 42, a former resident of Houston, has entered a guilty plea to a one-count criminal indictment charging him with mailing a threatening communication, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Former Riverways Chief Ranger Larry Johnson has been selected to serve as the Acting Superintendent at Ozark National Scenic Riverways, following the retirement of Bill Black on January 3.Johnson returned to the Riverways on January 16 and will serve as the Acting Superintendent for up to 120 days, while a new permanent superintendent is sought.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an indictment was returned by a grand jury charging a New York woman with bank fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; and David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced unsealing of a Complaint and the arrest this morning of Christopher Watson, a Perry County pharmacist...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ELLIS RANSON, III, age 28, of Laplace, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to pass fictitious obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Following a three-day trial, Dallas Lawrence, 32, of Box Elder, Montana, was convicted by a Montana jury of two rapes, two strangulations, two assaults with intent to commit murder and assault with a dangerous weapon. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris presided over the trial. Lawrence now...
