News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason I. Kestler, 36, Brooklyn, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 36 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a felon. Kestler pleaded guilty to the charge on June 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Mitchell Narada Kelly, a/k/a “Duncey," age 36, of Lancaster County, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, a violation of 21 U.S.C.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - Lake Mead is currently at an elevation around 1,078 feet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Arturo Dominguez Morales, 44, of Hobbs, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: ROME, Ga. - James Earl Chapman, Jr., a doctor from Macon, Georgia, has been convicted after a two-week jury trial on 49 counts of drug trafficking for prescribing and dispensing controlled narcotics at a Cartersville, Georgia, “pill mill" pain clinic that served as a front for the mass distribution of addictive pain killers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme that claimed nearly $340,000 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Join the National Park Service at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge visitor center to see the winners of the 2015 Gateway National Recreation Area Photo Contest. The show's opening reception will take place from 2 to 4 p.m. on October 3 and provide visitors a chance to see the winning images and meet the photographers. The show will continue through the end of November.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: “Good Morning and thank you, Chairman Conaway, for holding this markup.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Tobyhanna man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Scranton by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to serve 51 months in prison on the charges of filing fraudulent claims and income tax returns with the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: PATERSON, NJ- The National Park Service (NPS) and Van Alen Institute, a non-profit organization in New York operating on the belief that design can transform cities, landscapes, and regions to improve people’s lives, today announced the results of National Parks Now, a design competition that aims to...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the start of the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiating rounds in Atlanta...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Robert John Wiseman, Jr., age 55, of Essex, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for receiving child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that IRA THOMAS, 58, of New Orleans, a former member of the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB"), was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery and honest services wire fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman and I welcome today’s witnesses to the Committee.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO- Superintendent Larry Johnson announced today that Ozark National Scenic Riverways will extend the operating season for the park’s developed campgrounds beyond October 15. There will be restrooms with running water available in each developed campground, as well as sites with electric hookups in several campgrounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - a 61-year-old Laredo man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Anselmo Venegas, 61, pleaded guilty Oct. 15, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, September 30th - the last day of Fiscal Year 2015 - the House of Representatives will consider a Continuing Resolution maintaining government funding at its current spend rate through Dec. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RASHAD LEWIS, age 37, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Richard Lariviere, 45, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 70 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Upon his release, Lariviere will be placed on three years of supervised release which is monitored by the United States Probation Office.
