News from November 2011
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last week, BP, Halliburton and Transocean failed to appear before the House Natural Resources Committee to discuss the U.S. government's Joint Investigative Team report on their companies' involvement in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Yesterday the companies revealed their complete disregard...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: Come celebrate Veteran's Day Weekend 2011 with park rangers and volunteers at Everglades National Park. Entrance fees at all park fee stations will be waived for this national holiday weekend set aside to recognize America's veterans. The birds are returning and the weather is turning cooler - so plan to get out to the park over this long weekend. There are daily ranger lead walks at Anhinga Trail and lots of other trails to explore.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: National Park Service Plans to Burn Slash Piles in Colorado National Monument.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: PORTER, Indiana: National park rangers were notified by a visitor early this afternoon that a human body had been found on the Lake Michigan shoreline in Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore near Central Avenue. Upon investigation, it was determined to be a male. The Central Avenue area of the national lakeshore had been closed due to impacts of recent storms.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: Superintendent Mike Murray announced today that Wright Brothers National Memorial will be joining national park units across the country in honoring current and former servicemen and women and their families.Entrance to Wright Brothers National Memorial will be free to the public from Friday, November...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A local man was sentenced on Monday to 27 months in federal prison for selling $1 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems Inc. computer equipment, announced U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom, District of Kansas. The sentence resulted from an investigation conducted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and the FBI.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON DC-House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today issued the following statement on the release of a new Department of Energy Inspector General report documenting the departments’ failure to manage a $152 million stimulus project resulting in delays and wasted funds...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2011
News Release: Big Bend Ranch State Park and Big Bend National Park are sponsoring the second annual River Cleanup Day on Saturday, November 12. We are seeking volunteers to remove litter while spending a day canoeing, rafting, or hiking along the Rio Grande. These efforts improve local water quality, restore natural beauty, and reduce potential threats to human health and wildlife. The River Cleanup is a great way for groups of people to get together, have fun, and help their environment.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 6, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - A revolutionary new campaign from the American Petroleum Institute, the lobbying arm of the highly-profitable oil and gas industry, will ask American seniors, students, and kids in need of a meal to either pay more taxes or get less government services so that unnecessary tax breaks for Exxon-Mobil, BP and other large oil companies can be preserved, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2011
News Release: SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tierra Environmental and Industrial Services, Inc., a centralized waste treatment facility in East Chicago, Ind., its owner and a manager were charged yesterday with conspiracy and felony violations of the Clean Water Act in a seven-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court has ordered Advanced Underground Construction LLC and William David Ward II to begin paying employment taxes to the United States on a timely basis, the Justice Department announced today. According to the complaint in a government lawsuit, Advanced Underground Construction is a construction company based in Grimes, Iowa, and Ward is its owner.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A former executive of Ryan International Airlines, a charter airline company located in Rockford, Ill., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach, Fla., to participating in kickback schemes to defraud Ryan, the Department of Justice announced. W ayne E. Kepple, the former ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two individuals – a loan officer and a title agent – have been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William P. Dimitrouleas in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., for their participation in a nationwide $2.5 million reverse mortgage fraud scheme, the Justice Department announced today. Kimberly Mackey, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Wesley William Brandt of Davenport, Fla., was sentenced today to 90 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida Robert E. O’Neill and Susan McCormick, Special Agent-in-Charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in Montgomery, Ala., today convicted Monty Ervin and Patricia Ervin of conspiracy to defraud the United States and three counts of tax evasion, the Justice Department announced. The jury also convicted Patricia Ervin of one count of structuring transactions to avoid bank reporting requirements. The jury’s verdict culminated a two-week trial that began Oct. 25, 2011, in Dothan, Ala.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: PITTSBURGH - James Donis, 47, a former major at the Allegheny County, Penn., Jail, and a resident of Glenshaw, Penn., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on civil rights charges stemming from an April 2010 incident in which Donis allegedly punched an inmate in the face, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Alexander Brent, 40, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for possession of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton for the Western District of Pennsylvania, and Robin Dalgleish, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), Pittsburgh Division.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce John Bryson and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk will co-chair the 22nd session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) with Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan on November 20-21, in Chengdu, China. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will also take part in the discussions to address key agricultural trade concerns.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 4, 2011
News Release: The Corporation for Travel Promotion, the public-private partnership established by the Travel Promotion Act of 2009, today launched the brand umbrella to be used for the first-ever global campaign to attract more international visitors to the United States and renamed the Corporation Brand USA (www.TheBrandUSA.com ).
