News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Maria company has paid $1 million to resolve allegations that it falsely claimed it was a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) in order to obtain landscaping and cemetery restoration contracts with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs that were set aside for SDVOSBs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 13, 2015, Alexander Ezekial Gonzales, 26, of Parker, Ariz. and a member of the Colorado River Indian Tribes, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 139 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Gonzales pleaded guilty to abusive sexual contact with a minor.
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement after the introduction of legislation to authorize the highway and transit programs through the end of July.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: A federal judge in Midland has sentenced the owner and the office manager of Shorts Electric, an Odessa company that provided oilfield and residential electric services, to federal prison in connection with an estimated $400,000 bank fraud scheme announced Acting United States Attorney United States...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Trade Tool Needed to Bring Home High-Standard Trade Agreements.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: MERIDA, Mexico - A Honduran human smuggler transporting 13 Bangladeshi and Pakistani nationals was arrested May 6 by Mexican authorities working with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Merida Assistant Attaché Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with a medical practice in Montclair, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Kimberly, Oregon - John Day Fossil Beds National Monument will sponsor an 8-week long Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program this summer. Youths 15 to 18 are encouraged to apply, provided that they do not reach their 19th birthday before August 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Daniel Frias Gomez, 23, has entered a guilty plea to possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Gomez, a legal permanent resident born and raised in Jalisco, Mexico, who resided in Columbus, Iowa, pleaded guilty Dec. 4, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: MOSES LAKE, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation is monitoring water seeping along I-90 near the Weber Siphon, after being notified by the Washington Department of Transportation. The area is near the location where two concrete pipes run underneath I-90 and transport water for irrigation purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court has barred a New Iberia woman and her business from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Town of Wallingford Police Department have reached a settlement agreement under which the Wallingford Police Department agrees to implement training and ensure its policies comply...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore announced today that Arthur Lee Clark a/k/a “Bilbert", age 42, of Sumner, Georgia; Demitri Jackson, age 38; William Burns a/k/a “J.B", age 42; all of Albany, Georgia; and Timothy Hopkins a/k/a “LO", age 42, of Hiram, Georgia were sentenced for conspiracy to sponsor a dog in an animal fighting venture. The sentences were handed down by The Honorable W. Louis Sands, Senior U.S. District Court Judge, in Albany.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Committee members Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), will host a bipartisan roundtable on rural postal issues on Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 2:30 p.m. in room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Ayanna N. James, also known as Ayanna Wilson James and Ayanna N. Wilson, 39, of Virginia Beach, Va. pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and unlawful monetary transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway has sentenced Wilson Benjamin to three years and ten months in federal prison for theft of government property. The Court also ordered him to forfeit three real estate properties, which are traceable to proceeds of the offense. In addition, a money judgment was entered in the amount of $4 million, the proceeds of the fraud. Benjamin pleaded guilty on January 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Andre Hunter, 48, of Rochester, New Hampshire was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Nancy Torresen to 235 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute cocaine and heroin. He pled guilty to the charges on Dec. 18, 2014.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today announced that USDA is seeking applications for grants to support rural community economic development.
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: Play Learn Work Serve Camp Will Connect Youth to the Outdoors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRYAN BINKHOLDER was sentenced to 108 months in prison on multiple fraud charges involving his financial planning and investment strategy businesses. In addition to the prison sentence, he was also ordered to pay $3,655,980 in restitution to the victims.
