News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Frank A. Sanchez, Jr., 42, formerly of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 90 days of home confinement by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for theft of government funds. Along with the home confinement, Sanchez was ordered to make restitution in the amount of $92,064.00, perform 150 hours of community service and to serve a term of five years on supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: MINERAL, CA -Lassen Volcanic National Park celebrates its centennial this year along with the celebration of the National Park Service's creation in 1916. Events and programs are planned to commemorate the rich history of the park and National Park Service and celebrate a vision for the next century.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., dentist who formerly practiced at clinics in Springfield, Mo., and Mountain Grove, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to collect more than $167,000 in fraudulent Medicaid payments for child patients of the clinics.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jeffrey Slamow, of Lynbrook, NY, was sentenced to three years’ probation after pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment alleging that he filed a false affidavit in connection with the fraudulent passport application of another individual.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: STATESVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees handed down prison terms ranging from 21 to 120 months to 12 methamphetamine traffickers, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 43-year-old former University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) project manager James Paul Council was sentenced to 38 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his role in a bribery scheme announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes seven civil penalties totaling $455,000 against DHL Express (USA), Inc., of Plantation, Fla., for allegedly violating Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Plea Agreement Requires Prison Sentence within the Range of 84 to 96 Months.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 23-year-old Tyler, Texas man has been convicted of drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today on the Senate floor, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on his Senate colleagues to advance the bipartisan Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, also known as the Customs bill, saying it is necessary modernize and promote legitimate trade,...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the implementation of an accelerated process for annual water transfers and/or exchanges pursuant to Section 3405(a) of the CVPIA for Contract Years 2016 through 2020 (March 1, 2016 to Feb. 28, 2021).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Damon J. Murray, age 28, of Albany, was sentenced today to 51 months in prison and 6 years of supervised release for importing the controlled substance ethylone into the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Pedro Antonio Del Granado, age 49, of Fort Meade, Maryland, for enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity. After the jury returned its verdict, U.S. District Judge George L. Russell ordered that the defendant be immediately taken into custody and detained pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: A Columbiana County woman was named in a 25-count indictment, accused of defrauding her employer out of more than $600,000 over seven years, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 43-year-old Hankamer, Texas woman has pleaded guilty to federal income tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston woman pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Sarah Elizabeth Myers, 28, entered her guilty plea in federal court to the drug charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DOMINGO HERRERA-VEGA, a/k/a Herrera Domingo, age 38, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Defendant Admits Stealing Over $389,000. OAKLAND - DeSondra Michell Ward pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing from and defrauding the University of California, Berkeley, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., praised the Senate passage of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, the strongest package of enforcement tools in decades to crack down on foreign trade cheats. It passed by a 75-20 vote today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Ann Marie Sheppard, 55, of O’Fallon, Illinois, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2016, in the U.S. District Court in East Saint Louis, Illinois, on the charges that she engaged in a scheme to steal...
