News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Rehabilitation of the historic White Grass Dude Ranch located within Grand Teton National Park is complete after 11 years of meticulous preservation work. The former dude ranch has been transformed into the home and primary training center of the National Park Service’s Western Center for...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico today released its final report with policy recommendations that aim to promote economic growth and long-term prosperity in the territory. The report, issued to comply with section 409 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), lays out a number of potential policies that could be implemented to enhance the territory’s economic prospects.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Darren Dozier a/k/a “Dante Dozier", 54, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with three counts of production of child pornography, one count of transportation of child pornography, and one count of offenses committed by a registered sex offender, for offenses committed in 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Scammers Impersonating Law Enforcement and Judicial Officers, Targeting Public with Jury Duty Scam.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation is launching a new prize challenge, Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo, to ask solvers to improve existing sub-seasonal forecasts and to develop systems that perform demonstratively better than the existing baseline forecast for predicting temperature and precipitation over a 15 to 42-day time frame. If there are winners of this prize challenge, they will share up to $800,000 in prize money.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Gregory Harriman, 52, formerly of Bennington, Vermont, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2016 to thirty months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in defrauding and embezzling...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, returned Tuesday from a trip to Israel, where he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During their meeting they discussed border and national security protocols.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that TITUS OMBINA ABOGE, age 33, of Ada, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment for MISREPRESENTATION OF UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 911.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: The FAA and #FlySafe, the general aviation (GA) group’s national safety campaign, aims to educate the GA community on the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MICHELLE LEA DAVIS, age 39, of El Reno, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 112 months imprisonment for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(B).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Pedro Jaramillo Charged with Defrauding Over Two Dozen Individual Investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WILKES-BARRE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Timothy Fenster, age 31, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Richard A. Caputo in Wilkes-Barre, to 92 months’ imprisonment for committing five...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis this week updated resource stewardship policy to address environmental and societal changes that are increasingly widespread, complex, accelerating, and uncertain.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant admits NECC created fraudulent prescriptions to avoid federal oversight.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: FRITCH TX: Lake Meredith National Recreation Area (LAMR) is completing the installation of a boat dock at the RR boat ramp in Harbor Bay. This dock improves recreational opportunities on the lake since there were no docks in the Harbor Bay area. “We recognize the value that docks provide," said LAMR Superintendent Robert Maguire. “With the Harbor Bay area showing some of the greatest increase in visitation [up 18.5%], it was a logical choice and beneficial for the community.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Roger W. Titus sentenced Terrance Deangelo Hamlin, age 27, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, today to 123 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession with intent to distribute marijuana...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Dr. Anthony Lefteris, 71, of Atlanta, was indicted today by a federal grand jury, on charges that he prepared false documents and entered false information into the records of the U.S. Department of Transportation so that commercial truck drivers could obtain their licenses. Lefteris will be arraigned at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Amber Kay Otero, 31, of Carlsbad, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to the misdemeanor offense of unlawfully possessing a controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Leavenworth woman was sentenced Tuesday to four months in custody followed by four months home confinement for embezzling more than $500,000 from the bank where she worked, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said. In addition, she was ordered to pay full restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - John Desantis, a New York resident, and Dwayne Malloy, a New Jersey resident, the former owner and president, respectively, of Premier Links, Inc. (Premier Links), a Staten Island-based company, were arrested today on charges of securities fraud and wire fraud. From approximately 2005...
