News from November 2015
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on five produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, LAURA ANNE ROSS, 42, from Oklahoma City, pled guilty to embezzling over $160,000 from her employer, the Bricklayer’s International Union, Local 5, an Oklahoma City labor union that represents bricklayers and trowel trade workers from Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Supplied Tri-Cities Businesses With “Fake Weed".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two North Carolina businessmen pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in the Middle District of North Carolina to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: DENVER - A federal grand jury has indicted two individuals who, after investigation, were found tending to a large marijuana grow in western Colorado, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, and DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Barbra Roach announced. The two men charged, Luis Adolfo Garcia, age 33 of Parachute...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Santa Ana, California - In a series of related cases announced today, the former CFO of a Long Beach hospital, two orthopedic surgeons and two others have been charged in long-running health care fraud schemes that illegally referred thousands of patients for spinal surgeries and generated nearly $600 million in fraudulent billings over an eight-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Will Return to Private Practice of Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA - Jeremy Grant, 26, from Savannah, was sentenced last Friday by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to life in prison for his role in a conspiracy to engage in the sex trafficking of minors. Grant’s life sentence means that he will spend the remainder of his life in prison; there is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Jason L. Wood and Lawrence L. Niesen, both of Wasilla, Alaska, were sentenced in federal court for their roles in a bank robbery which occurred on April 23, 2014, at a Key Bank branch in Wasilla. Wood, age 35, and Niesen, age 39...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Christopher Stegawski, 65, of Cleveland, and John Randy Callihan, 58, of Portsmouth, Ohio, were sentenced in U.S. District Court for running “pill mills." Stegawski was sentenced yesterday to 160 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release. Callihan was sentenced today to 60 months in prison and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -District Court Chief Judge Wilma A. Lewis today sentenced James Cruz, 20, to 84 months in prison for using a firearm during a crime of violence, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Cruz also was ordered to serve three years of supervised release and pay a $500 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: UTICA, NEW YORK - Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (“CES") was sentenced today to 5 years of probation, and to make restitution in the amount of $409,829.67, for negligently releasing asbestos into the ambient air, thereby placing other persons in imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Four New York men were sentenced to prison for participating in the armed robberies of New York and New Jersey electronics stores, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jean Valbrun, 27, of Mattapan, Massachusetts, was found guilty by a jury in U.S. District Court of possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine base, commonly known as, crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: BOISE -Vicente Rene Ramirez, Jr., also known as Little Gangster, 33, of Jerome, Idaho, was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for unlawful possession of a handgun and possession of a sawed-off shotgun in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Ramirez to serve five years of supervised release following his release from prison. Ramirez pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2015.
By State Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you to prioritize U.S. - Argentina relations over the next year. The United States and Argentina should be natural partners. We both have highly educated populations, diverse economies and vast natural resources. As a renewed partnership would be a win-win for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Defendants Could Face Up to Life in Federal Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review an Environmental Assessment for the proposed removal of mature trees along 7.47 miles of Klamath Project facilities within the boundaries of Langell Valley Irrigation District in Klamath County.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, APRIL LYNN LOCKLEAR, 35, of Rowland, North Carolina and CHONA KAY OXENDINE, 32, of Shannon, North Carolina pleaded guilty to conspiracy to make false entries in bank records. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 5 years’ imprisonment, and a fine of $250,000.00.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Businesses face a near-constant threat of destructive malware, ransomware and malicious insider activities that can alter or destroy critical data. Even honest mistakes can alter data in ways that cause a significant loss to a company's reputation, business operations and bottom line. To reduce this risk, organizations need to be able to recover quickly from a data integrity attack and trust the accuracy and precision of the recovered data.
