News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Two Miami-Dade County residents were sentenced to prison yesterday, for their involvement in a social security fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: In Midland, 22-year-old Zane Paul O’Neal faces an agreed sentence of 23 years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to his role in the death of Sandy Brooke Franklin earlier this year announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 1937, the National Strategic and Critical Minerals Production Act of 2015 with bipartisan support by a vote of 254-177. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Gary R. Tomey II, 46, of Pace, and Eric T. Eakes, 29, of Milton, were arraigned today in the U.S. District Court in Pensacola after a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging them with conspiracy and mail fraud. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Thursday, Oct. 22, 2015. A legal assistant at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit was among 279 employees recognized by Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today for their distinguished public service at the 63nd Annual Attorney...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed four members to serve on the United Sorghum Checkoff Program Board. Members will serve 3-year terms.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing changes to the recreational fire program at Ocean Beach in order to create a safe and sustainable program that addresses environmental impacts and public safety concerns while creating a high quality user experience. Key elements of the proposed program include...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Patrick W. Ganim, 30, of, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison for traveling across state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor female, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Oct. 21, 2015-A new public boat ramp is now open at the site of Meadow Creek Campground, located one mile north of Sandstone Visitor Center on Meadow Creek Road. The campground is still under construction and is not open to the public at this time. Access is limited strictly...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Mexican citizen who entered the United States illegally was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in federal prison for drug trafficking in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Michael Newman, 37 of Richmond, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiring to distribute marijuana and ethylone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The architect of a fraudulent investment scheme that caused scores of victims to suffer losses of nearly $10 million was sentenced today to 151 months in federal prison for running a Ponzi scheme and lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Charleston Harris, a/k/a “Giovanni," and “Leon Baye,", age 36, and Phoebe Omwega, a/k/a “Star," and “Sparkles," age 27 both of Washington, D.C. on charges of conspiracy, sex trafficking of a minor, and attempted sex trafficking of a minor. The indictment was returned on Oct. 19, 2015 and unsealed today upon the arrests of the defendants.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: TUPELO, MS -The Natchez Trace Parkway has placed burn restrictions on all open fires effective immediately. The restrictions correspond with the fire restrictions put in place by a Proclamation State of Emergency Ban signed by the Governor of Mississippi. Due to elevated forest fire danger, the State...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: It may seem hard to believe, but we still don't know nearly enough about sunlight. Although people have been splitting the sun's rays into a spectrum and measuring the results for hundreds of years, and satellites have been orbiting the Earth for decades, there remains a nagging uncertainty about the exact spectral composition* of sunshine just before it enters the atmosphere.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that DAVID DEAN CAGLE, age 33, of McAlester, Oklahoma was sentenced to 269 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Defendants Admit Scamming Federal Employee Health Insurance Plan, Submitting Over $250,000 in False Claims.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing entitled “Words Have Consequences: Palestinian Authority Incitement to Violence.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - Travis Matthews, 28, of Dayton was sentenced here today to 73 months in prison for possession of a firearm after having been previously been convicted of a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - Wilson R. Smith, 63, a former attorney from Vidalia, Georgia, was sentenced earlier this week by Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to serve 8 years in federal prison for a scheme to settle his clients’ cases without their knowledge and to steal the settlement proceeds. Smith pled guilty in May to mail fraud and aggravated identity theft charges.
