News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the Nation’s premier civil rights agencies, awarded the Raleigh-Durham Joint Terrorism Task Force and a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Raleigh, the 2015 ADL Service, Honor, Integrity...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today upheld a 210-year sentence of imprisonment for Matthew Graziotti-a former elementary-school teacher, summer-camp director, and youth pastor-for producing, distributing, and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Neil A. Van Dyck, 64, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to health care fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park continues to be closed due to snow accumulation from the recent storm, three foot drifting in some locations and freezing temperatures. It is unknown when the road may reopen.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today passed the Restoring Americans’ Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act (H.R. 3762) by a vote of 240 to 189. The legislation combines recommendations from the House committees on Education and the Workforce, Energy and Commerce, and Ways and Means to dismantle ObamaCare, protect taxpayer dollars, and help rein in the nation’s deficits and debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Oct. 22, 2015, Robert James Zoellner (age: 52) of Ripon was sentenced to 18 months in a federal prison by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Zoellner previously pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: HELENA - Drumlummon Gold Corporation (DGC) and its operator, Seibert Smith, 74, of Helena, MT, pleaded guilty yesterday to failing to comply with a U.S. Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) order. The charge stemmed from a superseding information filed in late September by...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY- Artist Andrea Arroyo will present her exhibit, "Tribute to the Disappeared," at Women's Rights National Historical Park from November 7 through Dec. 31, 2015. The exhibit honors the thousands of men and women who have disappeared in Mexico, as well as other victims from around the world who have suffered injustice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Christopher James Harp, 58, was arraigned today in Fresno after a federal grand jury returned an indictment on Thursday, charging him with depredation of public lands, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Harp entered a plea of not guilty at today’s arraignment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The chief executive of Chicago-based Mobile Doctors pleaded guilty today to charges that he fraudulently increased Medicare bills for in-home treatment that was shorter and less complicated than the claims indicated.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Tunnel Task Force seized control of a sophisticated cross-border super tunnel last night following a six-month investigation that resulted in the arrests of 22 people in San Diego and Tijuana and the confiscation of 12 tons of marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: BOISE- Oscar Adan Jaimez-Munoz, 23, a Mexican national residing illegally in California, was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for his leadership role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Visiting United States District Judge Dee Benson...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Ricardo Lamont Irvine (42, Evansville, Indiana) has been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with failing to register as a sex offender after traveling from Indiana to Florida. If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in federal prison. Irvine was arrested in Jacksonville on Sept. 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a three-day trial, a federal jury found Shannon Lester Sorrells, 37, of Dinuba, guilty Thursday of five counts of bank fraud, one count of possession of stolen mail, and one count of aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: Cedar City, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Color Country District Office and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is hosting several public learning sessions to provide information about the final greater sage-grouse conservation plan for Utah public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced WILLIAM JACKSON HARVEY, JR, 53, of Virginia, to 96 months imprisonment to run concurrent with his term of imprisonment previously imposed by the State of Virginia. He was convicted by the State of Virginia for grand larceny and nonviolent felon in possession of a firearm within 10 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA-Nicholas A. Klinefeldt announced today that he will step.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: LAKEWOOD, Colorado - The Bureau of Land Management is classifying 23,077 acres of BLM-administered public lands and about 6,350 acres of federal mineral estate for state indemnity to repay the state for 9,000 acres the state did not receive under its statehood act of 1875.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: National Park Service Director to Announce New Collaboration With Scholastic at Hamilton Grange NM.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of JAMES SIGANOS, 50, to 21 months in prison. SIGANOS was charged on May 26, 2015, by felony information, of evading corporate income taxes. He pleaded guilty on June 11, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn. In addition to the 21 month prison sentence, SIGANOS was also ordered to pay $300,619 in restitution.
