News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Taminco US, Inc. (“Taminco"), today, pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for six counts related to shipping monomethylamine (MMA) to customers in Mexico for whom required identification had not been obtained and failing to report the disappearance of shipments of MMA. Taminco is a chemical company headquartered...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: For the month of December, Cape Cod National Seashore will exhibit landscape paintings by Kathleen Dunn. The exhibit, which will be on display at the Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham, is part of the national seashore's ongoing series: Perspectives--Seeing Cape Cod National Seashore through Art. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Richard Pena Jr., 39 of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in prison for unlawful possession of a handgun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting Judge Dee V. Benson also ordered Pena to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison. Pena pleaded guilty on August 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Drug Trafficking Organization Allegedly Distributed High-Grade Marijuana Throughout New Mexico and Across the Country from 2008 through 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: On Nov. 17, 2015, Skyler Elder, 25, Joseph D. Smith, 42, and Jamie L. Smith, 34, all of Pinckneyville, were sentenced in United States District Court, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Robert Lawrence Brown (32, Clermont) to two years in federal prison for accepting a bribe as a public official. He pleaded guilty on September 4, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials will make a final attempt at a 600-acre prescribed burn in the Canadian Top project area adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina. Weather permitting, burn operations will begin on Saturday, November 21. Crews should be able to complete...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Owner of Houston Durable Medical Equipment Health Care Companies Sentenced for $3.4 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that it will hold a series of public meetings on its three proposed rules to update and replace its Onshore Oil and Gas Orders 3, 4, and 5.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that David M. Felske, age 25, of Michigan City, Indiana was sentenced in federal court, by Judge Jon E. DeGuilio, after his guilty plea of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Noel Barrera Silva, 26, a Mexican national living in Moorefield, West Virginia, was convicted of methamphetamine trafficking today in federal court after authorities recovered a large amount of the drug from a vehicle Silva was operating, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: 61-Count Superseding Indictment Outlines Drug Trafficking Conspiracy and Related Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - BARBARA A. SADLER, age 63, of Zachary, Louisiana, and SEDRIC C. BLAKES, age 42, of Zachary, Louisiana, have been convicted in federal court of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and wire fraud in connection with a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud the Louisiana Medicaid program through Extraordinary Care Network, Inc. (“Extraordinary"), an attendant care services company that SADLER and BLAKES owned and operated.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Joint Statement from the United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Vanita Gupta and Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Minneapolis Division Richard T. Thornton.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chair of the House TB Elimination Caucus, today made the following statement applauding the Stop TB Partnership’s launch of the new Global Plan to End TB 2016 -2020: The Paradigm Shift.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Rita Girven (33, Tampa) to 12 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. She pleaded guilty on March 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: Defendant Charged with Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Possession and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Yesterday Phinehas Lee McNeal, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Raymond P. Moore to serve 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of ammunition, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2015
News Release: TUPELO, MS-The Tombigbee Pioneer Group will demonstrate pioneer era crafts and skills at the Natchez Trace Parkway Visitor Center from10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m.on Nov. 28, 2015. The presentations will show the challenges faced and creative solutions developed by those Americans who lived in the area from the 1700s to 1840.
