News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARK GOLDBERG, a Bronx-based tax preparer, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges related to his participation in a scheme to file fraudulent tax returns on behalf of numerous clients, falsely claiming more than $7 million in bogus deductions, including school tuition credits and expenses. GOLDBERG pled guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta A. Preska.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Congaree National Park will celebrate the 97th birthday of the National Park Service with park visitors on Saturday, August 24. Join one of Congaree's founding fathers, John Cely, for a Nature Discovery Walk at 9:30 am or explore the park with a ranger at night during the 8:00 pm Moonlight...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled 2-1 that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must resume its consideration of the Department of Energy’s license application for Yucca Mountain. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Lakewood, Colo- the BLM Colorado State Office is pleased to introduce the new Deputy State Director for Support Services, David McCormack.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Dear President Kiir: We write to express our deep concern with the deterioration of human rights conditions in the Republic of South Sudan. As you know, the United States Congress has long supported the people of South Sudan in their struggle against the oppressive regime in Khartoum. As strong supporters...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Michael Kerry Deevy, a Canadian citizen, was sentenced today in connection with a series of business opportunity fraud ventures based in Costa Rica, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. Beginning in 2006, Deevy and his co-conspirators in Costa Rica are alleged to have...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: "Privates By Choice" to Perform at Cumberland Gap.
By State Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL), co-authored an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal about the importance of sanctions against Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Kyle Alan Batt, 28, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced in federal court today to 180 months in prison for unlawful possession of a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Defendant, a Former Resident of Arlington, Texas, Must Also Pay More Than $228,000 in Restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Juan Zavala Gutierrez, 22, a resident of Mexico, has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for transporting undocumented aliens for private financial gain, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Gutierrez pleaded guilty June 10, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today ruled 2-1 that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must resume its consideration of the Department of Energy’s license application for Yucca Mountain. Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Herman Leirer Road interagency multi-modal trail feasibility EA.Alternative B, the preferred alternative, was selected.This alternative for a meandering separated trail will allow NPS and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former manager of wastewater facilities for the city of Hays, Kan., has been charged with violating the Clean Water Act, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 13, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that the Indictments of Kenneth Wayne Thompson, age 21, of Bradford, and Benjamin Cade Vardell, age 19, of Jonesboro were unsealed yesterday after they turned themselves in to the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Colby Palmer, age 26, from Clinton, Iowa, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to being a prohibited person in possession of ammunition.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) issued the following statement regarding President Obama’s signing of two bills to advance the development of small hydropower projects - the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and the Hydropower and Rural Jobs Act:
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, Jr. today introduced a new initiative designed to reform the criminal justice system for the 21st century, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
