News from November 2015
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Pipestone,MN: Superintendent Glen H. Livermont announced that, due to the upcoming federal holidays, the Monument Visitor Center will be closed on December 25th, 2015 and January 1st, 2016. The Pipestone Indian Shrine Association gift shop, located at the Visitor Center, will also be closed on the same days.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: North Texas Contracting Inc. and K&S Contractors
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jae Won Lee, 38, of Rockville, Maryland, was sentenced to three years’ probation for a visa fraud scheme in which he caused others to make false statements on visa applications filed with the National Visa Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, reports Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Resolves Its Investigation Regarding Constitutional Violations at Westchester County Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with a Rockford, Illinois landlord to resolve a claim he failed to inform tenants, some with young children, that their homes may contain potentially dangerous lead.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Demetrius Wright to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit theft of government funds, aggravated identify theft, wire fraud, filing false claims, and theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $165,317, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Wright pleaded guilty on August 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and a sex trafficking conspiracy in which young women were forced or coerced into engaging in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Jemel Broussard Harris has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of assaulting and injuring a Customs and Border Protection officer while at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is holding meetings regarding mineral withdrawal related to the new sage-grouse plan at the BLM Lakeview District Office, in Lakeview, Oregon, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m., and a separate meeting in Boise, Idaho on Dec. 15, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. These public meetings...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Bradley Bender, Southampton Town Councilman, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to illegally distribute oxycodone. The plea was entered before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Y. Shields at the federal courthouse in Central Islip.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Ernest L. Chambliss (44, Englewood) with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Chambliss has been charged as an Armed Career Criminal and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. The indictment also notifies him that the United States intends to forfeit the firearm used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Dr. Jose Jorge Abbud Gordinho, M.D., was indicted on multiple federal drug charges by a Grand Jury sitting in Beckley, West Virginia. Gordinho was arrested on Nov. 12, 2015, at which time the West Virginia State Police and...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.-The National Park Service (NPS) announced today another opportunity for the public to weigh in on revisions to Grand Canyon National Park's Backcountry Management Plan (BMP). The NPS began developing a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for this plan in 2011 in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). More than 580 public comments were submitted during the initial phases of the development of this DEIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Richlands, Va., nurse practitioner, who illegally prescribed over three thousand oxycodone pills, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Two men have been handed some of the largest sentences imposed in the Southern District of Texas following their convictions on multiple firearms charges and the violent robberies of mobile phone stores, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Robert Elder, special agent in charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Ernest L. Chambliss (44, Englewood) with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Chambliss has been charged as an Armed Career Criminal and faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. The indictment also notifies him that the United States intends to forfeit the firearm used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Alexandria man was sentenced Monday to 54 months in prison for selling methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Michael J. Moore, today announced the convictions on Friday of three individuals in an insurance fraud scheme in federal court in Albany, Georgia, following a three and a half week long trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man pleaded guilty late yesterday afternoon to conspiring to use stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought more than $2.6 million in false tax refunds.
