News from December 2013
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Haleakalā National Park is currently recruiting applicants for its 2014 'Imi i ka Lama Collegiate Internship Program to be held July 02- July 25, 2014. Applicants must be Hawai'i residents currently enrolled in college and be able to provide their own housing on Maui.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 278,384 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan during the 2014/2015 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raymore, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing thousands of images of child pornography. Malcolm J. Wolf, 33, of Raymore, was sentenced by...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 136 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy that put tens of thousands of prescription pills on the streets for resale.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Robert Paul Dickey, 74, a pediatrician from Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for 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 | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - An eighteen-count superseding indictment was unsealed yesterday charging seven defendants-Justin Jerrell Brown, a.k.a. “Jus Money," 22; Michael Ledale Hopson, a.k.a. “O.G.," “Hop," “Big Homie," 36; Marcellus N. Williams Jr., a.k.a. “Math," “P-Shooter," “Manny," 26; Darius Durel Crenshaw...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: The Superseding Indictment Adds Securities Fraud Charge And Two New Defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Former Kinloch Mayor KEITH CONWAY was sentenced to six months in prison on federal charges of submitting false employment records while completing his original sentence at a St. Louis halfway house--the Dismas House.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Darren David Chaker, 41, of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Las Vegas, Nev., has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of bankruptcy fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Chaker was found guilty April 4, 2013, following a five-day bench trial before U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today pressed two Interior nominees on why the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was trying to duplicate financial assurance requirements on hardrock mining operations that Interior and other agencies already have in place.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - George Nez, 71, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Mexican Springs, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning to a child sex abuse charge and was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison to be followed by ten years of supervised release. Nez will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. -Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown imposed prison sentences on Mark Neuman (78 months), Tim Larkin (54 months), and Lane Lyons (54 months), for lying to and misleading clients about how they held and used millions in client funds while operating Summit Accommodators, Inc., previously headquartered in Bend, Oregon. In addition to their prison sentences, the defendants must each serve three years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor released the Lower Rio Grande Basin Study that evaluated the impacts of climate change on water demand and supply imbalances along the Rio Grande along the United States/Mexico border from Fort Quitman, Tex., to the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced yesterday to two and a half years in federal prison, followed by 10 years of supervised release for failing to update his sex offender registration as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Dwaine Allen Collins, also known as “Dwaine Allen Cline," 54, previously was convicted after a bench trial in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury this afternoon returned an 11-count indictment that charges Paul Anthony Ciancia with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Transportation Security Administration Officer during a shooting spree at Los Angeles International Airport last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Defendant Tina Richmond stole a doctor’s script pad that was used to illegally obtain oxycodone tablets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Stephen Wayne Sudduth, 38, of Sealy, has been ordered to prison for 30 years following his convictions on two counts of production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Sudduth entered a plea of guilty Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The co-owner of Mr. Nice Guys Smoke Shop and a local real estate agent have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions related to a multi-agency investigation into the structuring of financial transactions announced Javier F. Peña, Special Agent in Charge of the...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: Milestones on the way to quantum computing. A landmark study of how communities can better prepare for tornadoes. Publication of a draft cybersecurity framework for the nation. Evidence of a potentially new class of solids. New programs to promote and support innovation in manufacturing.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted the FY 2013 Improper Payments Rates for the Medicare and Medicaid programs, released in the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) FY 2013 Agency Financial Report.
