News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, returned guilty verdicts against a Cherry Hill, NJ woman and her parents for a mortgage fraud scheme that stripped the equity from the homes of desperate homeowners facing foreclosure. Silver Buckman, 37, of Cherry Hill, NJ, her parents, Vincent Foxworth, 70...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Newton investment adviser pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to defrauding clients out of more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: A North Ridgeville man was sentenced to 15 years in prison related to distribution of child pornography, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for November 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Dana O. Knight, 33, of Gates, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 240 months in prison and lifetime supervised release for transporting multiple women to Virginia for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport resident pleaded guilty Thursday to receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Nine of the fifteen defendants convicted in the Phillip McGee methamphetamine conspiracy were sentenced on October 29-30, 2015, in federal court in Greensboro by the Honorable Catherine C. Eagles, United States District Judge. The group, which operated in Richmond County between 2012 and 2015, was responsible for the manufacture and distribution of large amounts of methamphetamine during this time period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Beginning Nov. 2, 44 federal inmates will return to the Northern District of West Virginia pursuant to the United States Sentencing Commission’s decision to modify the sentencing guidelines for certain federal drug offenses, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, and Chief U.S. Probation Officer Terry L. Huffman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE COLON, also known as “Uncle Benny," 50, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis yesterday sentenced Robert Earl Rice (48, Neptune Beach) to seven years and six months in federal prison for transporting and possessing child pornography, to be followed by 10 years of supervised release. Rice pleaded guilty on June 24, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 2.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Washington -The United States Park Police is investigating a fatal car crash that occurred around 8:20 p.m. on Maine Avenue Southwest in Washington, D.C. A vehicle struck a pedestrian in the westbound lanes of Maine Avenue just west of the 14th Street overpass. The pedestrian was transported to George Washington Memorial Hospital where they were pronounced dead at approximately 8:40 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Ron Perdue, 54, of Mt. Hope, West Virginia, plead guilty today in federal court in Beckley to distributing oxycodone. Perdue admitted that on Oct. 22, 2014, he sold oxycodone to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Ewart Avenue in Beckley, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Peruvian national who possessed orchids in violation of an international wildlife treaty has pleaded guilty to a federal offense of illegal trade in a protected species.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - Effective immediately, the Bureau of Reclamation is rescinding the ban on campfires in all campgrounds and day use areas at Lake Berryessa and New Melones Lake.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
Release: Plan Chef Host Alejandro Canedo and special guest chef FAS Administrator Phil Karsting preparing a meal for the California Dreaming episode, hosted by the California Pear Advisory Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Marvin Hulsey, 52, of Stafford, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, and two years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Intentionally Provided Defective Malaria Nets, Putting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Purchased and Sold Tobacco Products with Cash and Failed to Pay State and Federal Taxes.
