News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two Wilkes-Barre men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Scranton for drug trafficking and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Timothy Larry Malden (44, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the passing of counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. Christopher Jon Kirkland (41)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Dias Kadyrbayev, 21, a close friend of convicted Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was sentenced today to six years in prison for his role in retrieving, and later disposing of, evidence in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, specifically Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s backpack, containing...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: On June 15, the Oregon State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be offering an opportunity for the public to learn about the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for western Oregon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Lightning started a fire approximately eight miles up the Thunder Creek drainage from the Colonial Creek campground in North Cascades National Park. The Thunder Creek Fire was detected Saturday evening and grew to about 15 acres as of Sunday afternoon.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: RIDGELAND, MS:Natchez Trace Parkway officials announce that paving will beginJune 2, 2015on a section of the Parkway in Hinds and Madison Counties. Work will be done from milepost 77 (south of MS 467) to milepost 115 (north of MS 43).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BONNEY J. HEBERT, 59, of Killington, Vermont, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to wire fraud and money laundering charges stemming from her theft of more than $10 million from Hartford-based Aetna Life Insurance Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Huntington, W. Va. - Teresa Lewis, 60, of South Point, Ohio, was sentenced yesterday to a year and a day in federal prison for defrauding the Huntington Retina Center, where she worked, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A 108-count superseding indictment, unsealed today, charges 37 people (see chart) as participants in a multi-state heroin trafficking organization with ties to Mexico. The charges, which include conducting a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to commit money laundering, 62 counts...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. June 3: Live Webinar on Energy Design Guide for Grocery Stores. Webinar Sponsor: Building Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Innovation for Food Retail: The 50% Advanced Energy Design Guide for Grocery Stores" on Wednesday, June 3, from 1:00...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: Thirteen-year-old alleged victim resided in Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing regarding the data theft at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) which compromised the private information of over 100,000 taxpayers...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Berland Thomas, 44, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Mexican Springs, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service is again seeking nominations for individuals to be considered for appointment to the Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site Advisory Commission. Appointments to the 15-member federal advisory commission serve terms of four years. Written nominations are being accepted until June 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The ringleader of a conspiracy that stole $2.6 million in income tax refund checks issued by the United States was sentenced today to 27 months in prison, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: The Camas Creek Cutoff Road (Camas Road) has been listed as a place of statewide historic significance in the National Register of Historic Places.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Ronald Odean Bryant, age 22, of Denver, Colorado, has been indicted on May 20, 2015 by a federal grand jury in Denver on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: First Assistant United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that Steven P. Link (47) was sentenced on June 1, 2015, by Chief Judge William C. Griesbach to 90 months imprisonment for the receipt of child pornography in violation of Title 18, United State Code, Section 2252A. Upon his release, Link will be on federal supervised release for 15 years and will have to report as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Scott A. Clapper, Jr., 30, of Schoharie, was arraigned in U. S. District Court in Albany today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece on 13 felony counts of disaster-related fraud, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Edward Nasiatka, Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Four individuals participated in a scheme to file false claims for federal tax refunds for tax years 2008 through 2011. The indictment alleges that 93 false federal income tax returns were filed by the defendants as part of a scheme which claimed approximately $335,297 in fraudulent refunds and which caused a loss to the United States government of $184,464.
