News from September 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Four men have been sentenced to federal prison for distributing oxycodone in the Fall River, Mass., and Tiverton, R.I., areas. The four were arrested following an investigation which began in the summer of 2010 by agents from the DEA Worcester Tactical Diversion Squad, which included numerous undercover purchases of substantial quantities of oxycodone.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: Harkers Island, NC - Superintendent Pat Kenney announced that the National Park Service (NPS) has selected the Beaufort Front Street site as the departure location for the passenger ferry service from the Beaufort and Morehead City area to the Shackleford Banks and Cape Lookout areas of Cape Lookout National Seashore.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that a new ten-year contract has been awarded to Guest Services, Inc. (GSI) for operation of the park-owned concession facilities in Stehekin, located within Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. GSI brings a wealth of experience in operation of visitor...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- Arun Majumdar, Director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), today announced 60 cutting-edge research projects aimed at dramatically improving how the U.S. produces and uses energy. With $156 million from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget, the new...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: Region 4 News Release: 11-1364-ATL (471)
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: Yosemite National Park Fire Managers are planning a prescribed fire in the southern portion of the park near Bishop Creek along the Wawona Road, on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. Ignition of the prescribed fire is dependent on weather conditions. The total prescribed burn area will include 5,224 acres.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: Lowell, MA -On Oct. 16, 2011, Lowell National Historical Park partners with Wat Buddhabhavana in offering a guided visit to the temple for the Rains Retreat ceremony, which marks the end of Buddhist Lent.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: Dear Wrangell-St Elias friends, neighbors, and partners.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: MILWAUKEE, WI. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) announced today the arrest of 23 defendants on both state and federal charges related to the illegal distribution of pharmaceutical controlled substances in the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3), Ranking Member on the Labor, Education, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, issued the following response to Chairman Rehberg’s draft legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 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 for the District of Vermont, Tristram J. Coffin, stated that Joseph Zapatero, 31, of Manhattan, New York, was sentenced on Sept. 26, 2011 by U.S. District...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: Dear Secretary Geithner and Ambassador Kirk...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that its Nuclear Energy University Program (NEUP) is now accepting pre-applications from universities interested in conducting nuclear energy research and development (R&D) projects to be funded in fiscal year (FY) 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park will celebrate Earth Science Week and National Fossil Day by offering a variety of special programs and events during the week of October 9 - 15, 2011. Earth Science Week promotes understanding and appreciation of the value of earth science research and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the town of Warrenton, Va., to improve access to all aspects of civic life for individuals with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE – Attorney General Eric Holder joined U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jenny A. Durkan, the Wales family and the FBI in Seattle today to announce a new media and social media effort to seek information related to the 2001 slaying of Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas C. Wales. Wales worked as a federal prosecutor in the Western District of Washington for 18 years before he was shot and killed 10 years ago in his home the evening of Oct. 11, 2001.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Anthony Mangione, 50, of Parkland, Fla., was charged in an indictment unsealed today with child pornography offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Special Agent-in-Charge John V. Gillies of the FBI’s Miami field office and Sheriff Al Lamberti of the Broward County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A superseding indictment was returned today in Milwaukee against Dr. Arvind Ahuja of Greendale, Wis., adding a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department and IRS announced. Dr. Ahuja was previously indicted in June 2011 on four counts of willfully filing materially false tax returns and four counts of failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Six Japanese freight forwarders have agreed to plead guilty and to pay criminal fines totaling $46.8 million for their roles in a conspiracy to fix certain fees in connection with the provision of freight forwarding services for air cargo shipments from Japan to the United States, the Department of Justice announced today. These are the second round of charges filed as a result of the department’s antitrust investigation of the freight forwarding industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Trident Seafoods Corp., one of the world’s largest seafood processors, has agreed to pay a $2.5 million civil penalty and invest millions in seafood processing waste controls to settle alleged violations of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
