News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: On February 4, 2013, Akai J. Aikens, a twenty-nine year old East St. Louis, Illinois, man pled guilty in Federal District Court, in East St. Louis, to Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning a federal judge sentenced Gilbert Christopher Aragon, Jr., 48, to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his prescription drug trafficking conviction. The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Special Agent in Charge Carol K.O. Lee of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the El Paso Division of the DEA.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Stefan Hiebert, 20, of Lewiston, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to burglary, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WEST PLAINS, Mo. -The smallmouth bass is one of Missouri's most popular game fish caught in Missouri's waters, and yet biologists continue to learn more about the species to help manage its habitat and regulate harvest.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today condemned the Department of the Interior for ignoring the safety of the residents of King Cove in opposing emergency road access through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -Danny Dan Don Brown, 25, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Church Rock, N.M., pled guilty this morning to a second degree murder charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) generated nearly $7.8 million for leasing rights on parcels offered at the BLM's quarterly federal oil and gas lease auction held Feb. 5, in Cheyenne. Almost half of the bid and rental receipts go to the State of Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., woman today admitted to committing perjury while testifying in a federal trial, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Omer Fadhel Saleh Mohammed, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making false bomb threats. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000.00 or both.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to revisit its Bristol Bay watershed assessment:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced MICHAEL DONNELL LEONARD for weapons offenses stemming from a carjacking. LEONARD, 50, of Cary, North Carolina, received 262 months imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - After nearly two years of collaboration, technical analysis and public participation, the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of Idaho have released the Henrys Fork Basin Special Study Interim Report that describes potential future water supply alternatives for the basin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 5, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after reviewing Dr. Joseph R. Mason’s report on the “Economic Effects of Immediately Opening Federal Lands to Oil and Gas Leasing: A Response to the Congressional Budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding President Obama’s proposal to replace the sequester over the coming months with a balanced package of spending cuts and revenues...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Contact: Matt Dennis 202-225-3481. "Across-the-Board Cuts Would Exacerbate Economic Contraction and Insufficient Job Growth". Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama's call for a delay in implementation...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that America Growers Association LLC has satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Today, United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced the grand jury returned a three-count indictment against Jermaine L. Johnson (age: 36) formerly of Waukesha, Wisconsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released the following statement today in response to President Obama’s call for Congress to quickly pass legislation to avoid the harmful consequences of automatic, across-the-board cuts known as the sequester.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2013
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