News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana jointly announced that another individual has been charged with insider trading in connection with the acquisition of the Shaw Group. A federal grand jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - A federal judge convicted Timothy Siangdun of Battle Creek, Michigan of three counts of making interstate communications with threat to injure. U.S. District Judge Janet T. Neff heard the case without a jury on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015 and found Siangdun guilty as charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - March 5, 2010 marks the 30th anniversary of the death of Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special (SA) Enrique “Kiki" Camarena. A ceremony was held at the Atlanta Divisional Office in the DEA Training Room this morning at 11:00 a.m. for a commemoration ceremony.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH- Following the indictments of 40 defendants in October 2014, a grand jury last week issued additional and superseding indictments all relating to a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Homewood neighborhood Pittsburgh and other communities in the Greater Pittsburgh area. On Feb.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Tammi Stephens, Daynna Gregory, and Richard Cantrell have been arraigned on federal charges of theft of public funds and conspiracy stemming from an alleged check fraud scheme to steal from a victims’ restitution fund controlled by the Georgia Department of Corrections, where Stephens and Gregory worked until recently.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Gregory Gilmer, Jr., 34, of Belleville, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Court Judge Michael J. Reagan to 70 months in federal prison for armed bank robbery and conspiracy to commit bank robbery, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Fire Management staff at Denali National Park and Preserve are planning to burn debris consisting of trees and brush between Monday, March 9 and Friday, March 27, weather conditions permitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on March 5, 2015, Martez Moore, 40, formerly of Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced for Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with Intent to Distribute Cocaine (Count 1), Possession of a Firearm in...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Today, Channel Islands National Park announces the opening of a new ocean exhibit in the lookout tower at the Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center in Ventura Harbor. A new ocean photographic collection is also now on display in the visitor center auditorium.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Russian man was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for laundering profits from a scheme in which computer hackers essentially took people’s computers “hostage" electronically until a ransom was paid.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Menards Inc., 4777 Menard Drive, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rodney Howard, 45, of Akron, N.Y., was sentenced to 36 months in prison by United States District Court Judge William M. Skretny for conspiracy to import alpha-PVP, a synthetic drug also commonly known as “bath salts.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Leslie R. Caldwell, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael E. Horowitz, the Justice Department Inspector General, announced that JOHANNES THALER and RIZVE AHMED, a/k/a “Caesar,"...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Ambrose Williams, age 44, and Antoinette Kelly, age 32, both of New Orleans, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to charges relating to their conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute heroin.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: SAN MATEO-- The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, in partnership with the National Park Service, is applying for funds as part of the 2014/15 Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Grants and Cooperative Agreements Program grant cycle. This grant program provides financial assistance to agencies and organizations...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) announced the 21st Century Women’s Health Act, a new bill that would protect and build on progress made on women’s...

By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the resignation of Andy Lack as the Chief Executive Officer of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that THERA ELLISON, age 58, a resident of Gretna, was charged today with theft of government funds.