News published on Federal Newswire in April 2013

News from April 2013


News Release: Gustave Drivas, M.D., a medical doctor and resident of Staten Island, was convicted today of two felony counts for his role in a $77 million Medicare fraud scheme. The jury’s verdict followed an eight-week long trial in United States District Court in Brooklyn, New York, before the Honorable Nina Gershon.


Sequestration Cuts Cause Changes at Eugene O’Neill and John Muir National Historic Sites

News Release: Effective April 22, 2013, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site and John Muir National.


News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Apr. 4, 2013, Jeffrey Bryant Nichols, 54, of Loudon, Tenn., pleaded guilty to mail fraud and money laundering violations. Sentencing has been set for 9:30 a.m., Jun. 18, 2013 in U.S. District Court in Knoxville. He faces a maximum term of 20 years in prison for the mail fraud and 10 years in prison for the money laundering.


Celebrate National Park Week and Junior Ranger Day 2013

News Release: National parks offer free entrance April 22-26.



Air Duct Company And Its Owner Sentenced For Selling Diluted Pesticide With Forged Labels

News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas air duct company and its owner/president were sentenced today to fines and probation for making false statements to federal investigators and for manufacturing and selling thousands of gallons of misbranded and diluted pesticide between 2005 and 2010,announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada. A company engineer was also sentenced for his role in the offense.


News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that Defendants Kenneth L. McLain, age 32, and Karl Kaii Baker, age 34, were sentenced today in the United States District Court, for Conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine...


Coeur D'Alene Man Pleads Not Guilty To Federal Child Exploitation And Obscenity Charges

News Release: BOISE - Jeremy E. Durkin, 35, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded not guilty in federal court today to charges related to allegations of child exploitation and obscenity, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. A federal grand jury in Boise indicted Durkin on March 13, 2013, on one count of using a facility...


Five Members Of Sandusky Family Indicted

News Release: Five members of a Sandusky family were charged in a three-count indictment related to skimming more than $1.8 million in cash from three restaurants the family operates in the Sandusky area and depositing the cash at numerous financial institutions, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.


News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - Today, portions of the Bureau of Land Management’s Hartman Rocks Recreation Area re-opened for public access due to dry spring conditions.


News Release: Did you know that Jacksonville has the largest urban park system in the country? The Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve, Jacksonville's National Park, will celebrate National Park Week April 21st-27th with special programs available to visitors. This year's theme "Did You Know?" celebrates all...


Man Sentenced in Child Pornography Case

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that ZAKARY LANE SIDERS, 25, of Niagara Falls, New York, who was convicted of Transportation of Child Pornography on Jan. 2, 2013, was sentenced to five years’ incarceration by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.


Committee to Host WRDA Roundtable on Maximizing Benefits of Water Resources Development

News Release: Committee leaders will host a bipartisan roundtable discussion Wednesday on issues related to the development of a Water Resources Development Act (WRDA).


News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 8, 2013, Donald Hughes, 53, of Omaha, was sentenced to 6 years, 10 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine in the Omaha area between August of 2011 and January of 2012. Following the prison term, Hughes will serve four years on supervised release.


Former Garland High School Teacher Sentenced To Eight Years In Federal Prison For Possessing Child Pornography

News Release: Willis Bassham Videotaped Himself Having Sexual Relations With a Student at the School.


Percy Men Plead Guilty To Methamphetamine Conspiracy

News Release: On April 5, 2013, Michael J. Jaimet, 31, and Joshua D. Stacy, 26, both of Percy, Illinois, pled guilty in United States District Court in Benton to a one-count second superseding indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the death of Margaret Thatcher:


Chairman Menendez Condemns Attack in Afghanistan that Resulted in the Loss of Six American Lives

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in reaction to the news that six Americans were killed in an attack in southern Afghanistan.


Living Under the Guns - Civilian Perspectives on the Union Occupation of Murfreesboro

News Release: When the Union Army of the Cumberland entered Murfreesboro on January 5, 1863, it began a military occupation that lasted beyond the end of the war. Murfreesboro's residents struggled to cope with the changes that Civil War brought to their door steps.


News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing a film about Mount Rainier National Park on Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, 2013.