News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A federal criminal indictment unsealed today in Asheville charges 16 men and women with narcotics conspiracy operating in Swain, Cherokee and surrounding counties, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Of the 16 defendants...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Extensive Parkwide Clean-Up Event to Occur September 22 - 27.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney, Kenneth A. Polite announced that ERIN PITRE, age 36, of Cut Off, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information with possession of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of children under the age of twelve years old.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced that Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Krysta Harden will lead a trade mission to Accra, Ghana, Nov. 17-20, to expand export opportunities for U.S. agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Waltham man was sentenced today for conspiracy and insider trading in connection with tipping friends and fellow golfers with inside information about the business activities of American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Defendant Claimed Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Tax Refunds.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah Canyon Country District is seeking public comment on an environmental assessment (EA) analyzing the BLM's proposal to offer seven parcels covering 8,121 acres in the Moab Field Office at the February 2016 oil and gas lease sale.Additional information about the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: “Have a mentor, be a mentor." This statement is a quote from Sharon Allen, former Executive Chairman of Deloitte LLP. Over the course of the three-day 2015 Andrus Center Conference on Women and Leadership, speakers reiterated this message many times.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - John Wesley Sirmans, 61, of Niceville, Florida, was sentenced to 84 months in prison today for receipt of child pornography. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A couple from South Texas was handed significant sentences following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Pedro Candelaria, 24, of Pharr, and Cynthia Marez, 31, of McAllen, pleaded guilty June 4, 2015, and March 5, 2015, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Larry Lowry, age 61, of Orchard Beach, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy and bribery in connection with a scheme in which commercial haulers paid Department of Public Works (DPW) employees cash in return for allowing the haulers to deposit trash at the Quarantine Road Landfill (Landfill) without paying the required disposal fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A previously convicted felon who resided in Laredo has been sentenced for illegally possessing 14 rounds of 7.62x39mm ammunition, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Humberto Hilario-Gomez, 25, of Laredo, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition on Jan. 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston man has been ordered to federal prison for a wire fraud scheme in which he deceived a United Kingdom-based company into sending him $357,000, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Avery Lamarr Ayers, 48, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud on June 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 37-year-old Hazleton resident was sentenced today to serve 41 months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for participating in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted that she conspired to obtain more than $1 million through fraudulently generated refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced to 19 months in prison for his roles in conspiring with a criminal enterprise that engaged in illegal online sports betting in New Jersey and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Unmanned vehicles, "intelligent" buildings, your cell phone, the fitness bracelet on your wrist-all of these are cyber-physical systems (CPS). Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a draft CPS Framework document intended to help manufacturers create new CPS that can work seamlessly with other such smart systems that bridge the physical and computational worlds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The Town of Swampscott entered into a Consent Decree today agreeing to pay a $65,000 civil penalty and to take critical remedial measures to address pollution the Town discharged into the ocean near local beaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A couple from South Texas have been handed significant sentences following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Pedro Candelaria, 24, of Pharr, and Cynthia Marez, 31, of McAllen, pleaded guilty June 4, 2015, and March 5, 2015, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Nicholasville man, who previously admitted that he made child pornography images available for download on the internet, has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison.
