News from July 2015
By DOT News Wire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, and Transportation announced an open forum on Apr. 10, 2015, and issued a Federal Register notice on May 5, 2015 (80 FR 25671), soliciting information and views on assertions that three foreign airlines – Emirates Airline, Etihad Airways, and Qatar Airways – ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Proposal package requires faster notification following pipeline accidents, other important regulatory adjustments and updates.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Five residents of Miami-Dade County and one resident of Nicaragua were sentenced yesterday for their participation in a $25.2 million Medicare, Medicaid, and wire fraud scheme. Erendira V. Delgado, a/k/a “Eren Delgado," 31, of Miami, Edgardo Rodriguez, 47, of Nicaragua, Rodney Montoya, 36, of Miami, Deborah Smith, 53, of Hialeah, and Augustin Abaga, 48, of Sunny Isles, were sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Federico A. Moreno in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that former New York State Senate leader MALCOLM SMITH was sentenced today to seven years in prison for bribing New York City Republican Party leaders, including Queens County Republican Party Vice Chairman VINCENT...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - An Absarokee man, Christopher Michael Emter, 37, has been convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm following a jury trial in Billings, Montana. Emter is being detained pending sentencing, which U.S. District Court Judge Susan Watters set for October 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The owner of Charlotte-area metal and salvage business pleaded guilty to tax evasion today, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Sammie Marks a/k/a Sammy Marks, 41, of Matthews, N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David Keesler and admitted to concealing from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) personal earnings derived from his businesses, “Marks Metal & Salvage.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: An indictment was filed charging John Lee Robinson, 53, of Toledo, with two counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was unsealed today charging Malcolm Segal, 69, of Langhorne, PA, with six counts of mail fraud, and three counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Segal was a financial advisor with Aegis Capital Corporation at the time of the alleged scheme to steal funds from individuals who thought they were investing their money in Certificates of Deposit, and from investors who held funds in brokerage accounts at Aegis.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: The second annual Gateway National Recreation Area photography contest will be held during the month of July. For this competition, we are asking you to tell us the story of "I found my park!" through your pictures. The pictures must be recent (taken within the current year), and should be of any park you use, enjoy and consider yours. The pictures do not need to be of Gateway, or any park in the National Park Service (NPS) system to be considered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANDREA BIRDOW, age 24, from Sherman, Texas, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to conspiring with her boyfriend, TAUREAN JACKSON, to traffick a minor from the Dallas area into the New Orleans area for the purposes of that minor engaging in prostitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: “Quality data is essential to NOAA maritime programs, whether it is developing innovative products for precision navigation, creating richer data streams for ocean observations, or tapping into new possibilities of crowdsourcing and other modes of data collection," said Russell Callender, Ph.D, acting...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Over 40 professional artists from across the United States will spend two weeks (July 6-19) capturing on canvas the exceptional beauty of Grand Teton National Park during the annual 'Plein Air for the Park' fine art exhibition and sale. This marks the fourth 'Plein Air for the Park' gathering and each...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Edward Erickson, 68, of Elyria, with theft of government money and property, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Justin Thomas Shipley, 31, of Portales, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to eight years in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms conviction. Shipley will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raylon Castillo, 19, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to an indictment charging him with sexual abuse of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two executives of a purported financing company were sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a multi-year scheme to defraud loan applicants of millions of dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. Summer is here, and Yellowstone is welcoming visitors for the upcoming Independence Day holiday. Since July is the park’s busiest visitation month, the following tips and reminders are provided for ensuring a safe and memorable holiday weekend vacation:...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Michigan is at high risk for the introduction and impacts of invasive forest pests because of its extensive forest resources and high-risk pathways for exotic pest invasion. Recent estimates have shown that exotic forest insects, particularly those that feed on forest and landscape trees, cost U.S. households...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MORRIS CARTER, JR., also known as “Chilly Mo" and “Mo," 46, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by seven years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 1, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet. Craig...
