News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that the United States has moved to dismiss Count 18 of the superseding indictment against Kimberly Hastie and John Hastie, Jr., in criminal case number 14-00291-KD-N relating to conspiracy to commit tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident was charged for her participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving at least 790 stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Fifth Defendant Remains at Large. BOISE - Miguel Angel Dorantes, 18, Alberto Lopez, 18, Elizabeth Baeza, 18, Sobeida Galaviz, 24, all of Hailey, Idaho, and Leonel Angel, 20, of Compton, California, were indicted on July 14, 2015, by a federal grand jury in Boise for one count of conspiracy to possess...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4.5 million contract July 21 to Strider Construction Co., a small business based in Bellingham, Washington, to construct a bridge, build access roads and begin earthwork for a new fish passage facility at Cle Elum Dam, 75 miles northwest of Yakima, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Rock Island, Ill. - A federal grand jury returned indictments this week charging three men in separate, unrelated cases with possession of a firearm by a felon in the Rock Island Division of the Central District of Illinois, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis. The indictments had remained sealed pending the defendants’ arrests and court appearances.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: A special program of dulcimer music will be provided by the North Mississippi Dulcimer Association from10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015, at the Parkway Visitor Center located at milepost 266 near Tupelo, Mississippi.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. -July 24, 2015. Caleb Kesler, Chief Ranger, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 x227. Camp Verde, AZ - Southwestern archaeologists Kathryn Kamp and John Whittaker will demonstrate the art of flintknapping and discuss "Life in the Pueblo", at a book signing Saturday, Aug. 1, at...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Mike Pflaum, a 35-year veteran of the National Park Service (NPS), has been selected as.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Yesterday, Kevin Laney, a former Senior Project Manager at Matrix Service Company, and Brian Federico, a former subcontractor of Matrix, were convicted of mail fraud conspiracy and mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The guilty verdicts followed a three-week bench trial in front of The Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, United States District Judge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised a new agreement to reduce tariffs on more than 200 high-tech products, as part of the Information Technology Agreement.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: NOME, Alaska - Lightning has ignited two wildfires at Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: FRITCH, Texas - Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument will host a Star Party on Saturday, August 15. Join us for an evening of star gazing at the Alibates Visitor Center. Ranger conducted activities will begin at 8:00 p.m. for children wishing to earn their Junior Ranger Night Explorer patch. The Junior Ranger activity will be followed by a theater presentation at 8:30 p.m. and the outdoor viewing will begin around 9:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Stockton oncologist has paid the United States $736,000 to settle allegations that he improperly billed Medicare, Medicaid, and Tricare for certain chemotherapy drugs purchased from an unlicensed foreign pharmaceutical distributor, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released the following statement in response to the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel opinion on access to documents for the Department’s Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed a firearm and ammunition in Cedar Rapids earlier this year was sentenced yesterday to 100 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury indictment was unsealed today charging TRACI LORRE OWENS, 46, of Edmond, Oklahoma, with embezzlement from a Canadian County charity for child crime victims, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Florida man has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a multi-million dollar, multi-state conspiracy to transport hundreds of thousands of cartons of contraband cigarettes from the Kansas City, Mo., area to the state of New York, where they were sold primarily on Indian reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City woman pleaded guilty to taking more than $90,000 paid to her deceased mother.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Sandra Marks Charged with Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging KRISTIAN SAUCIER, 28, of Arlington, Vermont, with unlawfully retaining photos taken inside restricted areas of a nuclear attack submarine, and obstructing the investigation of this matter.
