News from April 2013
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Olympic National Park is now accepting volunteer applications for the fourth season of Marmot Monitoring.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 48-year-old Guatemalan national was indicted for entering the United States illegally after being deported as a criminal. Hector Raul Estrada-Garcia was charged with one count of illegal re-entry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Defendant Stole Patient Records From Nursing Homes To Create And Submit False Medicare Claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 10, 2013, Isaiah Cobb, Jr., 28, of Omaha was sentenced to a total of four years and 10 months (58 months) in prison for illegal possession of a firearm. Cobb was sentenced to three years and ten months (46 months) for being a felon in possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Medicare Billed $3.6 Million for Unnecessary Ambulance Rides.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A well-known cardiologist and the founder, CEO, and sole owner of a pair of large medical services companies in New Jersey and New York admitted today to conspiring in a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme that subjected thousands of patients to unnecessary tests and potentially...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement regarding President Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing to review the state of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education in America. Members discussed the need to reevaluate the federal government’s STEM investment to ensure it is helping students compete for jobs in these high-demand fields.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Keith Dietterle, 28, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a federal charge of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Scheme Targeted More Than 180 Accountholders At Large Retail Stores And Resulted In Losses In Excess Of $1 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two St. Joseph, Mo., area commercial truck drivers - one of whom is a registered sex offender - have been indicted on charges related to the commercial...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Daniel F. Dangler, 30, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to three months in jail followed by seven months of home confinement for aiming the beam of a laser at an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States. Dangler aimed a laser pointer at a Philadelphia television news helicopter on July 18, 2012. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 17, 2012. U.S. District Court Judge John R. Padova also ordered three years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement on President Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2014...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Dereon Tayronne Kelley, 22, of Bryan, has been found guilty on all counts for communicating a bomb threat to an academic institution, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was returned less than an hour ago after two days of trial and approximately one hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joseph R. Grygorcewicz, 63, of Amherst, N.Y., who was convicted of embezzlement and theft of labor union assets, was sentenced to three years probation by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: NOAA will continue operating several POES spacecraft - NOAA-15, NOAA-16, NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 - in addition to the nation’s newest polar-orbiting satellite, Suomi NPP, launched Oct. 28, 2011. NOAA’s POES spacecraft fly a lower, pole to pole orbit capturing atmospheric data from space that feed NOAA’s weather and climate prediction models.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Armed Forces Day is Saturday May 18, 2013 and the solemn tune Taps will be sounded at every National Cemetery and U.S. Veterans cemetery worldwide at 11:00 a.m.This tribute to veterans is called EchoTaps and is sponsored by the organization Bugles Across America.Since 1949, the third Saturday in May has been designated as Armed Forces Day.This day will honor all those who have served and continue to serve in uniform.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: 1125 Chapline Street, Federal Building, Suite 3000 ● Wheeling, WV 26003.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 10, 2013
News Release: Biscayne National Park will receive a $35,000 gift from the Florida Keys Reef Lights Foundation and the Florida Lighthouse Association to begin the initial stages of stabilization work for the iconic Fowey Rocks Lighthouse. Ownership of the lighthouse was transferred to the park by the U.S. Coast Guard in October, 2012.
