News from February 2012
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: As part of the Outer Banks Group Fire Management Plan, a prescribed burn will begin today, Friday, Feb. 03, 2012, in the Bodie Island District of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.Weather and conditions permitting, the burn unit will consist of approximately 1,000 acres and is located west of NC Highway...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: Hawaii National Park, HI - Road improvement projects continue at Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, and motorists are advised to drive with caution, and obey speed limits, traffic flaggers, construction signs, and control devices. Here's a project recap.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans continued to beat the drum this week with messages of jobs and energy security, reminding President Obama that the battle for the Keystone XL pipeline is far from over. The New York Times reports, “On the airwaves, on the campaign trail and in both chambers of Congress, ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Cape Lookout National Seashore announced that the season and hours of operation for climbing the Cape Lookout Lighthouse will be extended beginning this summer, adding one day per week (Wednesdays) and one additional climb time (at 3:45 p.m.) on each of the days that the lighthouse is open.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, a CNN news report details an extensive Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) report on problems at the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS). The report was requested after CNN uncovered illegal employment discrimination and misconduct at a FAMS field office...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 3, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee this evening received 313 pages of internal White House documents and emails produced in response to subpoenas issued by the committee exactly three months ago on Nov. 3, 2011. Without claiming executive privilege, the White House disclosed...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: (WASHINGTON)-Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) released the following statement on the House vote to pass H.R. 1173, the CLASS Act Repeal. The Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) program was established as part of President Obama’s healthcare...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded Sen. Robert Menendez, D-NJ, and the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for passing a portion of her legislation requiring a report to be regularly made to Congress describing the movements of both crude oil and refined ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: DINOSAUR, CO - The National Park Foundation, the official charity of America's national parks, is proud to award a grant to Dinosaur National Monument. The funds will launch a program to develop long-term monitoring and preservation plan for 150 million-year-old dinosaur fossil quarry. The grant is part...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: Increasing the Pace of Restoration and Job Creation On Our National Forests' Charts Course For Federal Agency; U.S. Forest Service Seeks To Reduce Major Threats Through Restoration WASHINGTON – Feb. 2, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new report, Increasing the Pace of Restoration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City has returned an indictment charging Michael Lavery with one count of presenting a false claim to the United States and one count of structuring a currency transaction to avoid the reporting requirements, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: A federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Fla., returned an indictment charging Ernst Pierre with filing false federal income tax returns and identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. The indictment was unsealed today following Pierre’s arrest. Pierre is charged ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: Wegelin & Co., a Swiss private bank, was indicted today for conspiring with U.S. taxpayers and others to hide more than $1.2 billion in secret accounts and the income these accounts generated from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Justice Department announced today. This is the first time an overseas bank has been charged by the United States for facilitating tax fraud by U.S. taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON — A Manhattan jury today convicted four individuals and three corporations for their participation in an eight-year conspiracy, involving kickbacks in excess of $2 million, to defraud New York Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH), the Department of Justice announced. In addition to today’s convictions, previously 10 individuals and three companies have pleaded guilty to date to charges arising out of this investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: Teresa Witthar, 43, of Independence, Mo., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Kansas City to federal hate crime charges in connection with the vandalism and arson of a bi-racial man’s mobile home in 2006.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Danish man was sentenced today in the Western District of Missouri to 30 years in prison for producing and transporting child pornography and for extortion against an 11-year-old Missouri girl, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips of the Western District of Missouri announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A real estate agent and a mortgage broker, both of Las Vegas, were found guilty today for their participation in a mortgage fraud scheme that netted nearly $2.5 million in fraudulent mortgage loans, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden of the District of Nevada and Special Agent in Charge Kevin Favreau of the FBI’s Las Vegas Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a rehabilitation agency in Dearborn, Mich., was convicted today by a federal jury in Detroit for his leading role in a fraudulent Medicare therapy scheme, announced the Department of Justice, FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Nine men have been indicted in the Western District of Virginia for allegedly conspiring to receive, distribute, possess and access with intent to view child pornography, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy of the Western District of Virginia and Assistant Director Gordon M. Snow of the FBI’s Cyber Division, announced today.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 2, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today issued the following statement commemorating National African-American History Month: "This month, I am proud to celebrate the innumerable accomplishments of the African-American community to awakening our highest ideals and enriching our national ...
