News from March 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - Zachary Young, 52, and Mark Williams, 27, both of Philadelphia, were convicted today of a drug conspiracy in which a phony arrest was orchestrated in order to steal drugs from a drug dealer. At the time of the crime, Williams was a Philadelphia Police Officer assigned to the 39th District.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Vice Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) yesterday sent the following letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski requesting the economic...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: New York, NY - The National Park Service has selected Shirley McKinney as the new superintendent for the African Burial Ground National Monument in lower Manhattan. McKinney follows Tara Morrison, the African Burial Ground's first superintendent, who is leaving to manage Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture optional origin sales of 120,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2010/2011 marketing year. An optional origin contract provides that the origin of the commodity may be the United States or one or more other countries.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Vice Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) yesterday sent the following letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski requesting the economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: BURLINGTON, VT. - Steven W. Derr, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced today that Marc Andre Cusson, 41, Sutton, Quebec, was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment, with credit for 70 months previously served in Canada, for his role in leading a major marijuana smuggling and money laundering scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded Representatives Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Gene Green (D-TX) for introducing H.R. 908, a bipartisan bill to extend the Chemical Facilities Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) at the Department of Homeland Security...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce the debut of a new children’s book, Jack the Cat that Went to War, about the garrison cat at Fort Sumter. Through the eyes of Jack, youngsters can explore antebellum Charleston, learn about slavery, experience Fort Sumter during the Civil War, and appreciate...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: Almost exactly 150 years after the first shots of the Civil War were fired, another wave of volunteers is about to descend on America’s storied battlegrounds - only this array of dedicated men and women will be armed with paint brushes, trash bags and weed whackers.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, in a one-on-one phone conversation with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, reiterated his strong support for the prompt approval of the pending U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement and stressed the...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
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By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A jury in Natchez, Miss., yesterday convicted a Natchez Police Department officer of violating the civil rights of an arrestee by stealing credit and debit cards from the arrestee. The officer, Dewayne Johnson, 33, will be sentenced on July 12, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - An owner of an Illinois-based technology company has pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the federal E-Rate program, the Department of Justice announced today. Barrett C. White was originally charged in U.S. District Court in New Orleans on Nov. 18, 2010, for his role in the conspiracy to defraud the E-Rate program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – David Chiaradio of Westerly, R.I., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., to 97 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for distribution and possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Andrew Warren, 43, a former official with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was sentenced today to 65 months in prison on charges of abusive sexual contact and unlawful use of cocaine while possessing a firearm, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., and Eric J. Boswell, Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A jury in St. Louis today convicted Vernon Wilson, 57, former chief deputy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, of violating the civil rights of four former inmates of the Washington County Jail on four separate occasions by beating two of the inmates and by arranging for the beatings ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A jury in St. Louis today convicted Vernon Wilson, 57, former chief deputy of the Washington County Sheriff’s Department, of violating the civil rights of four former inmates of the Washington County Jail on four separate occasions by beating two of the inmates and by arranging for the beatings ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday requested public comment on proposed amendments to Regulation CC (Availability of Funds and Collection of Checks) to encourage banks to clear and return checks electronically, add provisions that govern electronic items cleared through the check-collection system, and shorten the "exception" hold periods on deposited funds.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: Outsource Holdings, Inc., Lubbock, Texas Written Agreement dated Feb. 24, 2011 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 3, 2011
News Release: NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor has taken legal action to seek debarment of Lettire Construction Corp., a New York City general contractor, and Nicholas Lettire, president of the company, from working on future federally funded contracts for a period of three years.
