News from December 2013
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service Outer Banks Group Know Your Park citizen science program series continues this winter with upcoming scheduled presentations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Deluvino Elias Salazar, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute under a plea agreement that requires the imposition of a 135-month prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and Edward Grace, Deputy Assistant Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Office of Law Enforcement, announced that Richard Perrin, 80...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service and the Theodore Roosevelt Nature and History Association are pleased to announce that the winning photo has been selected for the annual "Picture Yourself in Theodore Roosevelt National Park" photo contest.The winner will be announced during Medora's 18th Annual Old Fashioned Cowboy Christmas festivities on Saturday, December 7 at 2:00 p.m. MST in the park's South Unit Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Edward J. Mango, (52, Orlando) today pleaded guilty to an Information charging him with acting in his official capacity while having a financial conflict of interest, a felony. Mango faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Steven Joshua Dinkle, former Exalted Cyclops of a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Ozark, Ala., was arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 27, in Mississippi for burning a cross at the entrance to a predominantly African-American neighborhood and for obstructing the investigation into...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the release of a Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General (DHS OIG) report. The report found that DHS has made progress in enhancing its information security, but more work needs to be done.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - THOMAS GREG MARTIN pled guilty to receiving misbranded Botox® from a foreign unlicensed drug wholesaler, some of which had counterfeit exterior packaging.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today once again called on Congress to renew the federal emergency unemployment compensation program. Ways and Means Committee Democrats recently released a report that shows if Congress fails to act 1.3 million Americans will be immediately lose federal jobless benefits on December 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of New York. Monday, Dec. 2, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former officer of the Wichita Police Department has been sentenced to a year on federal probation after pleading guilty in a scheme to pay a bribe as part of an unsuccessful effort to keep from losing her job, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - After a three day sentencing hearing, on Nov. 27, 2013, United States District Court Judge Myron S. Thompson sentenced Paul Hulse, Sr., to the statutory maximum of 10 years imprisonment followed by three years supervised release for interstate transportation of property by fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wisconsin man has been sentenced to two years federal probation and ordered to pay $183,000 in restitution for taking part in a cyber-attack on Koch Industries in Wichita that was sponsored by a group known as Anonymous, U.S. Attorney Barr Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Bobbi Eileen Woolsey, 35, of Boise, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Cordell Fleming, a former Claims Representative with the Social Security Administration, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - The former superintendent for the Dayton Independent School District has admitted in federal court to embezzling school funds during his tenure.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, December 4th at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled, “Examining Recent Actions by the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: New York - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the signing into law of The PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3588, the Community Fire Safety Act, a bill to exempt fire hydrants from being considered a covered product under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Although fire hydrants are not considered a major source of drinking water, the current...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: MEXICO CITY, Mexico - U.S. Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne and representatives from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) hosted a three-day law enforcement symposium in Mexico City to help further bi-lateral efforts to continue combating the online sexual exploitation of children.
