News from May 2015
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Megaliths in Northeast Germany. Early Monumentality in the Southwest Baltic Sea Region. Date: Thursday, May 14, 2015. Time: 7:00 pm. Location: Mound City Group Visitor Center (doors open at 6:30 pm). Fees: No Fees. Join us at 7:00 pm, Thursday, May 14 at the Mound City Group Visitor Center for a special...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction Wednesday, May 6, netted $44,325 in revenues from the sale of three federal leases, totaling 160 acres, in Montana.Herco...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Jamaican Lottery Fraud Defendant Found Guilty of Conspiracy to Commit Fraud and Other Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Douglas man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Worcester to attempting to travel to New York to engage in illicit sexual conduct with an undercover federal agent posing as a teenage girl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: The Informatics Applications Group, Inc. (TIAG) a Defense contractor based in Reston, VA, will pay $400,000 under a civil settlement with the United States Department of Justice, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. The settlement resolves allegations that TIAG submitted false claims to the government in violation of the False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. §§ 3729-3733, as well as certain other claims.
By DOE Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. May 12: Live Webinar on H2USA Station Analysis Tools. Webinar Sponsor: Fuel Cell Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Overview of Station Analysis Tools Developed in Support of H2USA" on Tuesday, May 12, from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Eastern...
By Interior Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: The 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (NPS) is approaching and so is the 50th anniversary of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. We want your ideas and help with planning for these concurrent anniversaries.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Dear Chairman Kennedy: We write to you today with concerns about the network defenses of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) and other systems run by the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (“the Board"). As the agency charged with protecting the primary retirement plan for millions of current and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: In Austin, a former Bastrop federal prison pharmacy technician and two inmates pleaded guilty to their roles in a bribery scheme to smuggle contraband into the facility announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, last evening Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, took to the Senate floor to highlight the work of two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Elizabeth “Beth" Leski and Carol Richel. The speech was part of Sen. Carper’s ongoing efforts to highlight the exemplary work of a DHS employee each month.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Roger Hicks, 51, of Manchester, appeared in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire and was sentenced to 37 months in prison for robbing the Members First Credit Union in Manchester on Oct. 3, 2014, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - Jackson-Madison County General Hospital has paid the United States $1,328,465 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid in connection with the placement of unnecessary cardiac stents and other unnecessary cardiac procedures.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RONY RIVERA-GONZALES, age 23, a citizen of Honduras and residing in Hammond, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) heard Thursday that while ISIS is remarkably better than other jihadist groups at recruiting supporters via the virtual world of social media, its boast of holding real-world territory makes it vulnerable.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Derrick Yancey, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations Conspiracy (RICO Conspiracy), was sentenced to 168 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - SB Medical Inc., and TC Medical Group, companies based in Toronto, Canada, and St. Michael, Barbados, along with Hanoch David Stein, 37, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to a multi-year conspiracy to smuggle and sell misbranded prescription pharmaceuticals in the United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Company Must Pay $232.7 Million Penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. -Darian Robinson, 42, of Hyattsville, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to charges of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Chicago, Illinois, man charged with Criminal Trespass pled guilty to and was sentenced on April 28, 2015, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2015
News Release: Thirty-Three Defendants Charged in Massive Criminal Conspiracies Including Allegations of Fraud, Prescription Drug Diversion, and Money Laundering.
