News from January 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: District 9 National History Day in Ohio Contest.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: 2014 Farm Bill Program Makes $17.5 Million Lake Erie Investment
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of filing false individual and corporate tax returns and health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River continues to host a preschool story time event every Friday morning, beginning at 10:30 a.m. (ET). Story time should last for about 30 minutes. The event takes place at the Obed visitor center, located at 208 North Maiden Street in downtown Wartburg. All preschool children...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EFREN FLORES-MELOCHOR, age 40, a citizen of Mexico, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Feldis announced today that a Cooper Landing man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Nicholas Quinton Hanson (23, Lakeland) to five years and ten months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of ammunition. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio filed 167 firearms indictments last year, U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealedFriday charging Brian Hartline, 50, of Collegeville, Pennsylvania, and Barry Bekkedam, 47, of Hobe Sound, Florida, in a fraud conspiracy involving NOVA Bank,where Hartline served as President and Chief Executive Officer and Bekkedam had served as Board Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Yesterday, defendant Javier Carrillo was arrested upon his arrival to the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport from the Dominican Republic. Carrillo supplied multi-kilogram loads of cocaine to the group of 10 defendants indicted on July 16, 2014, operation Voodoo Sam II, by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: (BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank Curtis, 35 -, formerly of Canaan, Maine pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute cocaine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Gamaliel Cortez-Mendoza, 43, an illegal alien residing in Laredo, has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala in San Antonio and Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar. Cortez-Mendoza is a Mechanic at a local logistics company.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner’s announcement that she plans to leave the agency next month...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 30-year-old Pittston woman pleaded guilty today in Scranton before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion to participating in a conspiracy to distribute alpha-pvp, commonly known as “bath salts.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires $265,830.00 Restitution Payment.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today reiterated her commitment to having an open amendment process on the Senate floor on legislation related to the Keystone XL pipeline.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, January 21 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce will hold its full committee organizational meeting in 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. At the organizational meeting, the committee will consider adoption of the committee rules and oversight plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The commonwealth of Pennsylvania will pay $48.8 million to resolve the federal government’s claims that it provided benefits to ineligible aliens in violation of federal law, the Justice Department announced today. The benefits at issue were provided under three programs: Medicaid, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Four members of a criminal street gang that used threats, intimidation and violence to maintain control of the illegal drug trade in Atlantic City, New Jersey, were convicted at trial today on drug conspiracy and weapons charges, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant and Friend Conspired to Steal Nearly $500,000 from Employer.
