News from December 2011
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: Canyonlands National Park is open all year, but visitor center hours of operation change with the arrival of winter.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s approval of a new rule that would put tighter limits on how commodity firms can use customer ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two New Jersey men have been arrested for their roles in a conspiracy to import and traffic in counterfeit perfume. This investigation is being conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: In an ongoing spirit of international cooperation, the National Park Service and the Skagway Arts Council will partner with Parks Canada and the Yukon Arts Center to host an Artist in Residence Program on the Chilkoot Trail. Two artists, one Canadian and one American, will be selected among finalists...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: Ninos Yacoub was One of Three Hikers Witnessed Plunging Over Vernal Fall on July 19, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, CA - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that Carlos Martinez, 31, of Oaxaca, Mexico, was sentenced to four years and two months in prison for conspiring to cultivate, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today announced an investigation into the Drug Enforcement Agency’s alleged laundering of millions of dollars in Mexican drug cartel money. The New York Times reported that the DEA employed similar tactics...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the agreement in principle between Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow construction of a road across the Colville River, clearing the way for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to approve the first oil and natural gas production from the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2011
News Release: The 2012 Meadowood Managed Hunt located on Mason Neck, Virginia, will be having a lottery draw hunt Jan. 19, 20 and 21, 2012. Names entered into the drawing will include those taken from the Mason Neck Refuge orientation and those from postcards (download here) or e-mails: jreffit@blm.gov (put HUNT...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 DOHA, Qatar—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today traveled to Doha, Qatar, to sign a bilateral aviation security agreement and meet with senior Qatari officials to discuss continued collaboration and increased security initiatives between the United States and Qatar.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “The United States and France have a joint history, as old as our republics, of cooperating to protect the security and rights of our citizens. Every day officers of the Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry of Interior ...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 PARIS - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined her international counterparts at the Ecole Militaire to deliver remarks on the importance of strong international partnerships at the Institut des Hautes Études de Défense Nationale - highlighting the Department's commitment to working with France and other European partners to enhance international security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Following a comprehensive investigation, the Justice Department today announced its findings that the state of Florida’s oversight system failed to detect and sufficiently address harmful practices at both the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys and the Jackson Juvenile Offender Center (JJOC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Joaquin Tasis was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for his role in a $9.1 million Detroit-area Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Tasis was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Arthur Tarnow in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Five San Francisco-area members of the La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang were sentenced yesterday to life in prison, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) was convicted yesterday of racketeering and firearms charges related to his role in the 2009 shooting of a man in Jefferson County, Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales of the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division issued the following statement today after announcing the closing of its investigation into the proposed acquisition of Admeld Inc., an online display advertising service provider, by Google Inc.: “The Antitrust Division obtained extensive information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Departments of Justice and Education released two new guidance documents – one for school districts and one for colleges and universities – detailing the flexibility that the Supreme Court has provided to educational institutions to promote diversity and, in the case of elementary ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Mobile, Ala., real estate investor has agreed to plead guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in southern Alabama, the Department of Justice announced. Charges were filed today in U.S. District Court for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Antonio C. Martinez Jr., 40, a former Chicago police officer, pleaded guilty today to racketeering conspiracy and related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Capp of the Northern District of Indiana.
