News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALEXANDER LAPPIN, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 37 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing marijuana. Judge Arterton also ordered LAPPIN to pay a $3,600 fine and to forfeit $105,825.
By State Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) departed this afternoon for a nine-day visit to Asia, his first visit to the region as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama on Friday signed into law H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee members Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO), will help facilitate the development of new...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama on Friday signed into law H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Energy and Commerce Committee members Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO), will help facilitate the development of new...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Bryan Greene, Acting Assistant Secretary of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, today announced that a federal judge in New Haven has found the owners of a property in Windsor Locks, Conn., liable for violating the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against prospective tenants based on their race.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - An accountant in Manhattan, Kan., has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling from a commercial construction company where he worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. He was ordered to pay more than $640,000 in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Between ingenious scam artists and insufficient training and oversight of ObamaCare’s community organizer “Navigators"- who’ll sign people up for ObamaCare mandated insurance starting on October 1 - millions of Americans from almost every state could be taken for a ride by fraudsters or have their personal information, such as credit card details and Social Security numbers, stolen.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Author, historian and internet pioneer Bruce Brown further explores American Indian stories with a penetrating examination of Indian oral histories that stitch together a view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn rarely offered in the millions of words published on the topic. The free program is scheduled 7 p.m., Saturday, August 17 at the San Juan Island Library.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Join San Juan Island artist Nancy Spaulding to learn how she utilizes photography and sketching on site during a artist workshop scheduled for 2 p.m., Saturday, August 17 meeting in the American Camp parking area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former Newark police officer was sentenced today to three months in prison for conspiring with another person to fraudulently obtain payments under the federal public housing assistance program known as “Section 8," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: LAKE MEAD NRA HYDRATION STATION SAVES 13,600 WATER BOTTLES AND COUNTING.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: High-resolution images produced by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists at the Electron and Confocal Microscopy Unit (ECMU) in Beltsville, Md., are providing an unprecedented view into the extraordinary world of the unseen.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: Alvin Gene Chelf, 42, of Bonnie, IL, was indicted on August 6, 2013, on methamphetamine related charges in an Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton, Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Victor Raul Fenesan, 31, and Claudia Luminita Beian, 33, both of Boise, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to federal immigration fraud charges based on their fraudulent marriages to United States citizens, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. The Romanian nationals...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court, a 27-year-old St. Paul man pleaded guilty to carrying a.357-caliber revolver during and in relation to a drug-trafficking crime. Leroy Uriah Spivey, who was indicted on April 15, 2013, entered his plea before Chief United States District Judge Michael J. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Jesus Jimenez-Valenzuela, 42, of Caldwell, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 48 months in prison for distributing at least 50 grams of actual methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He pleaded guilty to the charge on May 23, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD - In celebration of the National Park Service’s 97th birthday, Carlsbad Caverns National Park will offer free general entry to the cavern on Sunday, August 25. Entrance will be free for the two self-guided trails in the cave, the Big Room and Main Corridor trails. All other ranger-led tours will require normal fees on this day.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Hollywood doctor pleaded guilty this afternoon to a federal drug trafficking charge for writing hundreds of prescriptions for various controlled substances after a federal order revoked his authority to prescribe drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
