News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Stover, Mo., man was charged in federal court today for making threats against the President of the United States.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced H.R. 1368, the No Healthcare Subsidies for Foreign Diplomats Act of 2015, legislation to prevent foreign diplomats...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Ephren Taylor II, and Wendy Connor have been sentenced in connection with the fraud scheme they perpetrated while officers at City Capital Corporation. The scheme victimized over 400 people who invested over $16 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Durante Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Victim Remains Paralyzed After Attack. WASHINGTON - Michael Canarte, 23, and his brother, Aubrey Canarte, 30, both of Washington, D.C., have been sentenced to prison terms for robbing and shooting a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today. The brothers pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A member of a large-scale drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Thousands of Victims Nationwide. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two more St. Robert, Mo., residents pleaded guilty in federal court today to their roles in a Nigerian fraud scheme in which thousands of victims across...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today that, beginning April 4, the National Wild Horse and Burro Center at Palomino Valley (PVC) in Reno, Nevada, will be open to the public every Saturday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. PVC will continue to be open Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and closed...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jose Urbano Cortinas, 29, has been ordered to prison for nearly 23 years following his conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Cortinas, of Memphis, Tenn., entered a guilty plea to the charge Oct. 29, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) has issued the annual Superintendent’s Compendiums for 2015, a collection of documents that will become effective on April 1.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Zion National Park will be using a digital three-dimensional scanner to map the inside of the Zion-Mount Carmel Highway Tunnel to assess its condition. Visitors through the tunnel should expect 20-30 minute delays due to tunnel closures on weekdays between March 12 and 27, 2015. The time for the closures has been updated.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: During the next few weeks, National Park Service fire crews will be conducting a series of prescribed fires within Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. The prescribed fires, as defined in the approved Fire Management Plan, will all be located within the boundaries of the park. Darrow Ridge...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Kenneth Durante, 57, of Ramah, N.M., was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for his possession of a stolen firearm conviction. Durante will be on supervised release for three years after completing his term of incarceration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Obtained Personal Identifying Information Of Traffic-Accident Victims And Fraudulently Posed As An Attorney Soliciting Clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 39-year-old Longview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released a fact sheet outlining the numerous problems that have plagued HealthCare.gov - the online marketplace where the uninsured have been encouraged to shop for healthcare coverage.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jerry Ernest Lopez, 33, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 84 months in federal prison for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. He will be on supervised release for four years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Used force, fraud and coercion against the women he transported.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned three separate indictments charging 13 defendants with conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and to distribute, methamphetamine. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
