News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Superintendent George Price announces National Volunteer Week at Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) and encourages your participation. Barnstable County AmeriCorps Cape Cod (ACC) and seashore staff will be teaming up to "Protect, Preserve, and Prepare Our Park: Celebrate Community Service to Showcase...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) highlighted the four-year mark in the countdown to the 2020 Decennial Census. In October, the Census Bureau released its 2020 Operational Plan, outlining...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court following an investigation in which he rammed into a police vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, Muzaffar Nadeem, the owner of SM&B Construction Co., Inc. (SM&B), was sentenced to 96 months’ imprisonment, ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution to the IRS, and ordered to forfeit to the government over $7.1 million in criminal proceeds, following...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Jesse Emerson, 36, of Springfield, Vermont was sentenced today to 55 months in federal prison based on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone (a-PVP) over an eight-month period in 2014...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that nominations are being accepted for members to serve on the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Gerry Lee Peirce, 55, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 70 months in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receiving child pornography. After his release from prison, Peirce will also be required to register as a sex offender and complete 7 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Castleton Man Accused of Lying Under Oath to Conceal his Failure to Comply with his Restitution Obligation.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a field hearing in Lansing, Michigan, this week to explore how current regulations implementing federal wage and hour standards are impacting workplaces in the state and across the country. Witnesses offered a variety ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Steven F. Weiss, age 67, of Virginia Beach, Virginia was sentenced on Wednesday in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, Wire Fraud, and Bank Fraud, a violation of 18 U.S.C. §...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that VIDAL OROSCO-BARRIOS, age 29, was charged today in a four-count indictment for transferring false Social Security Cards in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(2).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Weekend back country explorers planning to visit the Dry Valley area east of Susanville the weekend of April 9 and 10 will encounter more people than usual, as a two-day motorcycle race is scheduled on public land. Competitors will begin arriving Friday, April 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 1, 2016, Patricia Walker-Halstead of Omaha, Nebraska, age 70, was sentenced for wire fraud. The Honorable Joseph F. Bataillon, Senior United States District Court Judge, sentenced Walker-Halstead to a term of twelve (12) months and one (1)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The hacker "Guccifer," alleged to be Marcel Lehel Lazăr, 44, of Arad, Romania, made his initial appearance today here in federal court on charges relating to unauthorized access of protected computers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Ralph Georg Toni Martin, a/k/a Mirko Dominic Martin, (46, Würzburg, Germany) guilty of failure to appear for his sentencing in a federal drug case, after being released on bail by order of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: A foreign national pled guilty to orchestrating an international mail fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CURTIS GIBBS, 32, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a sawed-off shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jody G. Moczara, 35, of Sabattus, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 135 months in prison to be followed by 10 years of supervised release for receiving child pornography. Moczara pleaded guilty to the charge on Oct. 14, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that James Slade, of Calgary, Canada, was sentenced to 12 months in prison for violating the federal Clean Water Act. Slade was convicted of two Clean Water Act crimes for discharging polluted wastewater into the Salmon River as a result...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 87 months in prison for possessing 162 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
