News from August 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that Carlos Martinez, 23, of Oaxaca, Mexico, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to cultivate, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Due to severe weather associated with Tropical Storm Emily, boat tours provided by concessioner Biscayne National Underwater Park, Inc have been cancelled for Friday August 5th and Saturday August 6th, 2011.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee today called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide important information on the agency’s settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), announced in April 2011, of claims alleging that the company...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the latest unemployment report...
By State Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to urge you immediately to implement additional sanctions on the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad. We appreciate the measures you have taken to date-including imposing sanctions on al-Assad, his family, and his associates- but we believe it is time to significantly increase...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: From October to July, more than 130 volunteers of all ages have donated more than 7,400 hours at Lassen Volcanic National Park.Volunteers continue to donate their time and help with campground hosting, visitor and education activities, field surveys, non-native plant removal, historical research, clerical...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement in response to the latest unemployment report...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Prescribed Burn Scheduled In Bryce Canyon National Park and Dixie National Forest.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee today called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide important information on the agency’s settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), announced in April 2011, of claims alleging that the company...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: LAS VEGAS - National Park Service rangers are currently searching for a missing Las Vegas man on Lake Mead. The man went missing late last night while swimming in a cove in the The Narrows.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders on the Energy and Commerce Committee today called on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson to provide important information on the agency’s settlement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), announced in April 2011, of claims alleging that the company...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: Lynchburg, VA. - Approximately 50 people attended a demonstration of a technology called "ultrasonic machining" at AREVA's Technical Training Center on June 9, 2011. The technology, originally developed by the Edison Welding Institute (EWI), applies ultrasonic acoustic vibrations to traditional machining...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK - Two Chinese nationals have pleaded guilty to trafficking in counterfeit perfume. The case is part of a federal investigation of the importation and distribution of counterfeit perfume and cosmetic products being conducted by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2011
News Release: LOS ANGELES, CA - The lead defendant in a federal drug case involving the distribution of multi-pound quantities of methamphetamine in the Long Beach area has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park has reached another milestone in its work on a General Management Plan and public input is needed. As part of an on-going effort to develop a General Management Plan/ Wilderness Study and Environmental Impact Statement (GMP/Wilderness Study/EIS), National Park Service staff will be hosting several "talk story" sessions to discuss four preliminary alternatives. Written and on-line comments are also being requested through Sept. 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice announced today that, in order for VeriFone Systems Inc. to complete its acquisition of Hypercom Corp., it must divest Hypercom’s U.S. point-of-sale (POS) terminals business to an entity sponsored by Gores Group LLC, a private equity fund. The department said that the divestiture should eliminate the merger’s potential to harm competition in the sale of POS terminals.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – German A. Posada of Las Vegas pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Philip M. Pro to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Nicholas J. Faranso of Farmington Hills, Mich., was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge John Corbett O’Meara in the Eastern District of Michigan to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States, the Department of Justice and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Faranso pleaded guilty on Jan. 12, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (MSD) has agreed to make extensive improvements to its sewer systems and treatment plants, at an estimated cost of $4.7 billion over 23 years, to eliminate illegal overflows of untreated raw sewage, including basement backups, and to reduce pollution ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2011
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointment of Sharis Arnold Pozen as Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
