News from November 2015
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Planning for the Thanksgiving holiday can be more than turkey, pumpkin pie, and watching football. It is also an opportunity to take family and friends and those leftover turkey sandwiches for a picnic or hike to any of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recreation areas in southern New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Michael A. Flanagan, 43, of Centralia, Illinois, was sentenced today for his role in a Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Methamphetamine in Clinton and Marion Counties. Flanagan was sentenced to 110 months in federal prison, to be followed by 4 years of supervised release, a $200 fine, and a $100 special assessment. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Former U.S. Navy Lt. Commander and Catholic Priest Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Maksim Mikhaiov Pikulev was sentenced to seven months in prison after pleading guilty to falsely reporting a plot to obtain bombs that would be detonated at a local Wal-Mart and threatening an FBI Special Agent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Nov. 13, 2015, Stephen Thomas, age 49, of Los Angeles, California, was sentenced by Chief District Judge John A. Jarvey to 80 months in prison for his role in leading a sophisticated counterfeit credit and debit card scheme in Iowa in February 2015, announced United States Attorney...
By State Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to review efforts to expand internet access to women in developing countries. The hearing, entitled “Women and Technology: Increasing Opportunity and Driving International Development, " is the second hearing in a series to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), along with the Committee’s Democratic members, on Tuesday will kick off “Trading Views: Real Debates on Key Issues in TPP " with a session focusing on the environment. The session will be the first in a series of intensive,...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Heidi Y. Calonge (34) to 18 months in federal prison, followed by 6 months of home detention, for bank fraud, wire fraud, and mail fraud. As part of her sentence, she was ordered to pay $150,371.10 in restitution to her victims. A forfeiture money judgment was also entered in the amount of $150,371.10, representing the proceeds of the fraud. She pleaded guilty on Aug. 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Daniel Savage, 33, of Chester Springs, Pa., was sentenced today to 37 months in prison on a federal charge of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Rolf Ramelmeier, age 79, of Sykesville, Maryland today to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for mail fraud and money laundering in connection with a 10 year scheme to defraud Northrop Grumman Corporation. Judge Motz also entered an order requiring Ramelmeier to forfeit $11,238,519, and pay restitution of $11,740,925.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement after the House failed to pass H.R. 308, a bill blocking the Tohono O’odham tribe from building a court-approved casino in Glendale, Ariz., under suspension of the rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles announced today that the United States Attorney's Office for the District of South Carolina with the State of Florida, settled claims of health care fraud with HCA Holdings, Inc. f/d/b/a HCA, Inc. f/d/b/a HCA - Hospital Corporation of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Anthony Nwagbara Daniels, a/k/a “Tony Daniels," age 59, of Silver Spring, Maryland, today on wire fraud charges arising from a scheme to defraud the United States by fraudulently obtaining a government contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Defendants Used Money to Finance a Lavish Lifestyle.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment/Initial Study and a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Tulare Irrigation District Cordeniz Basin Project, to expand an existing groundwater recharge basin in Tulare County.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management public meeting featuring the Tri-State line upgrade project overview at the Dove Creek High School is cancelled due to inclement weather. The public meeting will be rescheduled.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Vernal, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Vernal Field Office is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) analyzing the realignment and paving of a portion of the existing Wells Draw road, a major access route to Nine Mile Canyon. The project proposes paving 2.68 miles of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Todd Elliott, 22, of Somersworth, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on one count of bank robbery, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of 33 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release and full restitution to the victim bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Joseph Cremeans, 28, of Chesapeake, Ohio, was sentenced today in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to three years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Cremeans, who previously...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Clarion Sintered Metals Inc.'s main manufacturing plant is located at 3472 Montmorenci Road in Ridgway, Pennsylvania. This was the inspected worksite, where the company designs, manufactures, machines, cleans and finishes metal parts.
