News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Irvine man who admitted that he illegally piloted private jet airplanes with passengers onboard without having a valid pilot’s license was sentenced today to 10 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Vice President and Options Portfolio Manager for a Boston-based asset management firm has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a scheme to defraud funds managed by his firm, which made him more than $1.9 million in profits.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - Outdoor enthusiasts wishing to visit the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) popular Lost Coast Trail at King Range National Conservation Area (NCA) will need to find another route than by traveling U.S. Route 101 (also known as U.S. Highway 101). The route is temporarily closed due to a rock slide north of Leggett, California, about 15 miles south of Garberville.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced winners of its fourth annual Race to Zero Student Design Competition, a collegiate competition engaging university students to design zero energy ready homes. A zero energy ready home is a high-performance home that is so energy efficient it can offset all or most of its annual energy consumption with renewable energy. This significantly reduces a home's annual energy costs while improving comfort, health, safety, and durability.
By State Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, today issued the following statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two brothers have been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for their convictions of conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and money laundering, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Kevin Olufemi Davies, 29, and his brother Melvin Olusola Davies, 28, pleaded guilty Dec. 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - April 21, 2017 - Kelli Hogue Mauro, 48, of Birmingham, Alabama, and former Executive Director of the Birmingham Volunteer Lawyer Program, has been charged with misapplication of property worth at least $5,000 from a federal program, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing to replace obsolete park housing at four locations within Ozark National Scenic Riverways. This project includes four existing housing areas that no longer meet minimum housing requirements due to significant deficiencies. An environmental assessment...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: An Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and his colleagues have developed a technology that rapidly pasteurizes eggs and could sharply reduce the number of illnesses caused each year by egg-borne Salmonella bacteria.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant MICHAEL V. BAMBA, age 33, from Tamuning, was sentenced in District Court to a 57-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - As the result of a national FBI investigation, James Gaver, 71, of Kettering, Ohio, and Robert Phelps, 49, of Jackson Center, Ohio each pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in separate cases to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joe Ray Alires, 42, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court to180 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for unlawfully possessing firearms and ammunition, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Houston residents have been found guilty after a five-day jury trial for conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, aiding/abetting marriage fraud, marriage fraud, theft of government funds and false statements, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez along with Special Agent in Charge...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites the public to participate in a special hike of Loudoun Heights on Monday, May 8, 2017, at 9:30 AM. This 6-mile round-trip hike to Split Rock will offer a history of the mountain along with beautiful scenery. The approximately 5 hour long hike is very strenuous...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Six Additional Individuals Indicted for $2.5 Million High-Yield Investment Fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: A man has been fined $1,000 for violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act and other crimes committed in Petrified Forest National Park. Joseph Nolan, age 43, was sentenced at a recent federal court hearing after he pleaded guilty in March 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., returned a verdict on Friday afternoon (April 21, 2017) finding Trevor Lee Thayer, 46, of Silver City, N.M., guilty of violating the federal firearms and narcotics trafficking laws after a five-day trial. The jury found Thayer guilty on two firearms charges and one narcotics trafficking charge, and acquitted Thayer on three firearms charges and a narcotics trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that AVANEESH KRISHNAMOORTHY, who works as a vice president and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 24, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning, Chief U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo sentenced Davon Lymon, 36, of Albuquerque, N.M., for his conviction on federal heroin trafficking and firearms charges. Lymon was sentenced to 216 months (18 years) of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release.
