News from February 2013
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: A new National Park Service report for 2011 shows that the 607,000 visitors to the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area spent $26,116,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 388 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, N.J., man who co-owns and operates a wholesale adult paraphernalia business in New York City today admitted concealing more than a million dollars in income in various domestic and foreign bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska- U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Fairbanks man was indicted by the federal grand jury in Anchorage, Alaska, for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Luis Manuel Diaz-Quintero, 24, with illegally reentering the United States following his deportation, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Tourism Creates $24.9 million in Local Economic Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that GPX/GPX, USA, a seismic surveying company based in Sealy, Texas, and its field operations supervisor, Douglas C. Wiggill, have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges involving harboring and transporting 19 illegal aliens for a project in the Williamsport, PA area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Steven Banuelos (aka Ferrari Mike, aka Mike Banuelos) pleaded guilty today in federal court in San Francisco to running a three-year investment fraud scheme through which he fraudulently obtained more than $2 million, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., woman pleaded guilty today to theft of federal program benefits, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Feb. 26, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, JUSTIN HANLEY BRIGHT WINGS, a 27-year-old resident of Lodge Grass, pled guilty to assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Sentencing has been set for May 29, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power. The hearing, titled “American Energy Security and Innovation: An Assessment of Private-Sector Successes and Opportunities in Energy Efficient Technologies," looked at energy efficiency’s contribution to American energy security and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Lonnie W. Castillo, age 49, of Liberty Lake, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography. United States District Court Judge Fremming...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) responded today to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that identified weaknesses in how the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is hosting two public open house meetings this week to help identify issues to be addressed in the Roan Plateau Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing focused on private-sector successes and opportunities in energy efficient technologies. In a time of continuing economic hardship, and record government deficits, the subcommittee continued its hearing series on American Energy Security and Innovation, examining new and innovative ways to reduce waste and cut costs for businesses and the federal government.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement about looming across-the-board automatic spending cuts that start on Friday...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 1,352,123 visitors to Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park spent $96,990,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 1,177 jobs in the local area.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: Scientists at the University of Puerto Rico, working with Caribbean resource managers, are conducting the current research in an effort to protect populations of commercially and recreationally important grouper, one of the most valuable fisheries in the region. Groupers were once one of the most important...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), the top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to President Obama today asking if the Administration will stand behind their statements that they do not support and would not propose a carbon tax, and denounce the bill in the Senate to implement a carbon tax. U.S. Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) recently introduced legislation to implement a carbon tax.
