News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, March 13, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GARRETT SANTILLO, 35, last residing in Hollywood, Fla., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - Louis Cortez pleaded guilty and was sentenced late yesterday to five and a half years in prison for possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Josh J. Minkler, United States Attorney, announced today that federal criminal charges have been filed against a former office manager for the City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department. Judith A. Seigle, 51, of Gosport, Indiana, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a wire fraud charge alleging that Seigle executed a scheme to steal over $400,000 in funds intended for Parks Department projects and programs.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: MOUNT RAINIER -Drivers are in for a rare springtime treat: after an unseasonably mild winter, Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) maintenance crews have begun the annual work to clear Chinook Pass on State Route 410 and Cayuse Pass on State Route 123.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Fifteenth Annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 25, 2015. Traditional arts and crafts as well as music will be included as part of the festival throughout the day. The park would like to take this opportunity...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Hope Elephants. Inspection site: 49 Hatchet Rd., Hope, Maine 04847. Date of incident: James Laurita, co-founder, curator and elephant manager of the Hope Elephant Refuge was found dead in the refuge's compound on Sept. 9, 2014, with a crushed chest. Investigation findings: OSHA's inspection...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) this afternoon released the following joint statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Guest blog post by Paul R. Zielinski, MS, MBA, Director, Technology Partnerships Office, National Institute of Standards and Technology & Chair, Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Evelyn Nunez, 40, of Providence, was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.4 million dollars in restitution to the IRS and the State of Rhode Island for her role in a scheme to steal personal identifying information of minors named as dependents...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler has announced that a conference regarding Tribal Implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. All sessions will be held at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, located at 505 N. Fifth St. in Rapid City, South Dakota. The one-day conference will run from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - An Illinois physician was arrested this morning on a charge of illegal remunerations. NEIL SHARMA, 34, of Lemont, Illinois, a licensed Illinois physician and the medical director of an Illinois healthcare company, is charged with receiving a kickback in the amount of $2,500 in cash, from an individual in return for his referring Medicaid and Medicare patients to the individual's company for medical treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler has announced that a conference regarding Tribal Implementation of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) will be held on Tuesday, March 31, 2015. All sessions will be held at the Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn, located at 505 N. Fifth St. in Rapid City, South Dakota. The one-day conference will run from 8:00 am - 5:00 pm.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Superintendent Cicely Muldoon announced today that Point Reyes National Seashore is seeking applications for this summer's Youth Conservation Corps Program (YCC).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dr. Mudassar Sharif, 40, of Bernards Township, NJ, was charged yesterday by indictment with illegally dispensing prescription pills through Garden State Primary Care, which he owned, in Kearny, NJ, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Sharif is also charged with trying to set fire to the building that houses the medical practice.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA News Release. March 13, 2015. Release No.: 2015-11. Contacts: Lake Mead National Recreation Area: 702-283-2344. Southern Nevada Water Authority: 702-249-5518. SWIMMING ADVISORY ISSUED AT LAKES MEAD, MOHAVE. BOULDER...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS - A federal grand jury has charged David H. DeMathews, 62, of Columbus, with wire fraud, money laundering, engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from unlawful activity, mail fraud and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon in a 39-count indictment unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Ford City, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 96 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - With the guilty plea of Julia Resendez, 33, four people have now been convicted for their respective roles in an alien smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the death of two Guatemalan nationals, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of Daniel Pagano, a Captain of the Genovese Organized Crime Family of La Cosa (the “Genovese Crime Family"). Pagano pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams...
