News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former director of finance and accounting at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation’s Long Beach facility was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $10 million from his employer over a 13-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux and Gregory K. Davis, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, announced the sentencing of four defendants tied to a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former executive director of the housing authority for the city of Liberal, Kan., was sentenced to a year on federal supervised release and 250 hours of community service for wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney John J. Field, who handled the matter, stated that Votsis owned and controlled Rookies Neighborhood Sports Bar, a restaurant and bar in Gates, NY In 2009, the defendant learned of a pending audit of his sales taxes, and in response, directed that sales data contained in Rookies’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Lawrence A. Smith, age 20, of Winnebago, Nebraska, was sentenced for his conviction for failing to register as a sex offender. Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Smith to 18 months of imprisonment to be followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Robert Lee Craddock (54, Port Orange) pleaded guilty today to wire fraud arising out of a scheme to defraud the compensation fund established as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. He faces a maximum penalty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that John Francis Songer (45, DeBary) has pleaded guilty to theft from an employee benefit plan. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Songer was indicted on Feb. 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: LONDON - A McCreary County couple, who defrauded the Social Security Administration and Kentucky Medicaid out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, has been sentenced in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Lametti & Sons, Inc. disturbed 6,229 square feet of protected wildlife refuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Kenneth Crawford, Jr., age 42, of Washington, D.C. and formerly of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, after earlier pleading guilty to importation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Mark Silverburg, also known as “Dip," 41, of Lexington, Kentucky and Alpharetta, Georgia, was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment in federal court in Huntington. Silverburg had previously pleaded guilty in October of 2014 to conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Under the terms of the plea agreement, Paetsch will be sentenced to probation, eight months home confinement, and. 400 hours of community service. The defendant will also forfeit $265,000 to include $22,725 in lieu of a 2011 BMW X5, $76,941 in lieu of his interest in his residence at 25 King Fisher Drive, Spencerport, and $67,197 in lieu of his interest in a residence at 218 Palmetto Dunes Circle, Naples, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: Independent Monitor for APD Reform Process to Introduce Monitoring Team to the Albuquerque Community.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, July 5, 2015 at 2:00 p.m., Park Ranger Barbara Ford will share the legacy of the National Park Service and the agency's long history of acquiring land by force, borrowing, or buying from Native Americans. Did you know that some of our country's most beautiful and thought provoking public lands are marked by conflict? Depending on your perspective, the national parks are a costly success of public interest, or a harsh betrayal of Native Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Jazzmyn Rochon Litzy, aka Zoe, 35, from Cabell County, West Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington to possession with intent to deliver heroin. In December of 2014, a member of the Drug Enforcement Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: HARBESON, Del. - Workers cutting chicken fat, bone and cartilage eight hours a day at a Delaware poultry plant are suffering musculoskeletal injuries caused by their jobs, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: “The report from the OIG raises concerns about NHTSA’s capacity to identify safety defects and hold auto manufacturers accountable for reporting problems. We rely on NHTSA to protect drivers from dangerous defects, and we need to be confident in its ability to carry out that role. The OIG report offers valuable recommendations to improve NHTSA processes, and I am encouraged by NHTSA’s plans to implement these changes promptly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - George Esle Pires, 56, of Ceres, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii to seven years and three months in prison for receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With three bipartisan bills expected on the House floor this week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to build upon its #RecordOfSuccess. The three important bills will keep electricity affordable for consumers, improve chemical safety and manufacturing in the U.S., and protect the future of the Internet.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote today on important legislation that will bring much-needed reform to the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act. H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, is authored by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), ...
