News from September 2015
By DOT News Wire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: FHWA Providing Funds for On-The-Job Training/Supportive Service Programs. The Federal Highway Administration announced the availability of up to $3 million to help state Departments of Transportation or local transportation agencies develop the skilled workforce needed to ensure the safety of public roads and those who use them. The deadline to apply for the funds is Dec. 23, 2015. The solicitation is posted at www.grants.gov . Contact: Doug Hecox: (202) 366-0660.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley urges the public to get out this weekend and throw out unused prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: A Westlake cardiologist was convicted of performing unnecessary catheterizations, tests, stent insertions and causing unnecessary coronary artery bypass surgeries as part of a scheme to overbill Medicare and other insurers by $7.2 million, law enforcement officials said.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, September 30 the Committee will convene a hearing to examine cyber war and its implications for U.S. foreign policy. The hearing, entitled “Cyber War: Definitions, Deterrence, and Foreign Policy, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ville Platte man was sentenced Thursday to 70 months in prison for possessing and receiving more than a thousand images of child pornography using an internet file sharing program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois announced today that Antonio M. Avila, age 46, of Granite City, Illinois, was sentenced to 92 months imprisonment on Sept. 24, 2015 for Possession With Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Maryland has been sentenced in federal court to two years of probation, six months of home detention and community service on his conviction of conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Washington -Kersten Laveroni and Ayomide Sekiteri will help prepare the National Mall and Memorial Parks for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016. Laveroni is a graduate from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst majoring in Environmental Conservation and Sekiteri is a graduate from...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: WHEN: Thursday, Oct. 1, beginning at 10 A.M. at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site. The ceremony will last two hours.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Jacksonville residents Victor Antinio Burks (28) and Yamil Sanchez (33) for stealing mail from a U.S. Postal Service contract facility. Burks was sentenced to 79 days’ imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gilberto Ray Ramos, age 41, of Springdale, was found guilty on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, three counts of Distribution of Methamphetamine, one count of...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced today that Karl Mendonca has been selected as the new field manager for the Colorado River Valley Field Office based in Silt.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Reclamation announced that it has awarded a $1 million contract to PAF Electrical, LLC, Oregon, on September 17 to replace nine existing variable frequency drives that will upgrade the Cahone, Dove Creek, Pleasant View and Ruin Canyon Pumping Plants near Cortez, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Wasi Ismail Syed, age 38, of McKinney, Texas, to serve 24 months in prison, and sentenced Syed’s brother-in-law Shahab Uddin Mir, age 35, of Frisco, Texas, to serve 3 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Timothy Loren McCoy Fleming, 23, of Albany pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. Fleming admitted in his plea agreement that he posted on Facebook threats to kill a police officer at the Albany City Hall, along with a picture of himself holding a pistol.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Jack Weichman, Ari Weichman, James Schaefer and William Bercaw Indicted.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Massachusetts Department of Probation officer was charged today with making a false statement to the FBI in connection with a public corruption investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Bryan T. Zuzga (39, Coldwater, Michigan) to 6 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay more than $10.7 million in restitution. Zuzga pleaded guilty on June 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lake Charles man was sentenced Thursday to 210 months in prison for receiving child pornography on his home computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that nine individuals have be charged by indictment with participating in a drug trafficking ring that obtained more than 80,000 oxycodone pills by way of fraudulent prescriptions.
