News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two members of the Grape Street Crips gang today admitted their roles in conspiracies to distribute heroin and crack-cocaine in and around Newark, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo.-The Bureau of Land Management’s Southwest Resource Advisory Council Oil and Gas Sub-Group will meet Thursday, Nov. 19, at the Dolores Public Lands Center (29211 Hwy. 184) at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Clinton Briggs Miller has been arraigned on federal charges of enticing minors to produce child pornography, by allegedly blackmailing them to send him sexually explicit images of themselves. Miller was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 19, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Republican oversight leaders in the Senate and House sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt asking for information on the agency’s plans to update its Fraud Prevention System (FPS), a program that uses predictive analytics...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ralph Darel Lipsey (28, Miramar) has pleaded guilty to manufacturing and passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. Lipsey also has agreed to forfeit the monetary proceeds he obtained as a result of the crime, as well as the computer media he used to manufacture counterfeit notes. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - D. Gregory Schvaneveldt, 40, of Preston, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 96 months in prison followed by seven years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Schvaneveldt to pay $10,250 in...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced today Chuckie Beaver, 52, of Ellenboro, N.C. to 57 months in prison for defrauding more than 30 investors of over $2 million, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn also ordered Beaver to serve three years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christian Quintana, 20, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a federal assault charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that an employee of Community National Bank in Aurora, Mo., has pleaded guilty in federal court to a $130,000 bank embezzlement scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the U.S. Department of Commerce's "Skills for Business" initiative, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is funding the development of a visualization tool that will show the demand for and availability of critical cybersecurity jobs across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Federal prosecution is first in LA-area of client who sought underage commercial sex.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Salt Lake City-The holiday season is coming and thousands of people will be cutting their Christmas trees on public lands. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah will begin selling non-commercial permits to cut pinyon pine and juniper Christmas trees in November. Permits will be available at the following locations:.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. -Columbia Falls student and Boy Scout, Todd Ervin, has built several bat houses and a mini-bat condo as part of his Eagle Scout project. The condo, which can hold 3,000-4,000 bats, will be raised in the St. Mary housing area. Ervin will present three smaller houses to the park this Wednesday. The smaller houses can hold several hundred bats each and will be placed strategically throughout the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A chemical company headquartered in Allentown, PA, has agreed to plead guilty to a six count information charging it with shipping monomethylamine (MMA) to customers in Mexico for whom required identification had not been obtained and failing to report the disappearance of shipments of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Richard Laurence Stewart today for committing a string of bank robberies throughout San Francisco, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson. The indictment follows a complaint and affidavit filed on Oct. 19, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Precise measurements of optical power enable activities from fiber-optic communications to laser manufacturing and biomedical imaging - anything requiring a reliable source of light. This situation calls for light-measuring (radiometric) standards that can operate over a wide range of power levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Believed to Be the Largest Debt Collection Scheme Ever Prosecuted.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and 18 members of the Committee introduced a resolution to begin proceedings in the U.S. House of Representatives to impeach Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Joel Estrada-Secundino, age 49, of Central, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to possession of child pornography, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2252A(a)(5)(B). United States District...
