News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jonathan Propp, 48, of McLean, Va., pleaded guilty today to conspiring with others to steal more than $20 million from Host Hotels and Resorts L.P. (Host), one of the nation’s largest hotel owners, by executing a series of illegal sales of hotels.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: Ban Will Cost U.S. Livestock Industry $600 Million Annually
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Feb. 19, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, BILLIE JOE BULLSHIELDS, a 29-year-old resident of Browning, pled guilty to distribution of methamphetamine. Sentencing has been set for June 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Feb. 15, 2013, T. Wayne Allen, Sr., of Davenport, IA, was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner also sentenced Allen to four years supervised release following imprisonment and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment to the crime victim fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former Topeka lawyer has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for stealing money from clients’ trust funds, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. He was ordered to pay restitution of $537,680.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2013
News Release: Funding Includes More Than $8 Million for Smart Grid Technology NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 12 states will receive loan guarantees to improve generation and transmission facilities and implement smart ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2013
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that rural electric cooperatives and utilities in 12 states will receive loan guarantees to improve generation and transmission facilities and implement smart grid technologies. The announcement was made on the Secretary's behalf by USDA Rural Utilities Acting Administrator John Padalino during the annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in New Orleans.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2013
News Release: Know Your Park: The Other Army--Northern Teachers and the.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2013
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - FEBRUARY 17, 2013. KAREN HUGHES, CHIEF RANGER, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 X223. Arizona Archaeology Awareness and Heritage Month Activities. Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments have scheduled activities throughout March to coincide with Arizona Archaeology...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2013
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - FEBRUARY 17, 2013. KAREN HUGHES, CHIEF RANGER, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 X223. Arizona Archaeology Awareness and Heritage Month Activities. Montezuma Castle and Tuzigoot National Monuments have scheduled activities throughout March to coincide with Arizona Archaeology...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 16, 2013-Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced at the National Pheasant Fest and Quail Classic that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will conduct a four-week general sign-up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), beginning May 20 and ending on June 14. CRP ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Voices of Civil Rights on Friday, Feb. 22, and Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will join U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David V. Aguilar and Senator Tom Carper to travel to Nogales, Ariz. on Feb. 19 to see border security operations at the Southwest ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will join Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Ft. Lauderdale and Miami, Fla. on Feb. 20 to see customs and security operations at Port Everglades and Miami International Airport, and discuss the Department’s on-going efforts to facilitate lawful travel and trade. More details on the trip will be released once they are finalized.”
By USDA Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2013–Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the investment of $59 million this year from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) for the health of the Mississippi River basin, making a total of approximately $289 million for the initiative that reduces nutrient and sediment run-off.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the establishment of a National Commission on Forensic Science as part of a new initiative to strengthen and enhance the practice of forensic science.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: A Gainesville, Fla., woman was sentenced today to serve one year and one day in prison for her role in the obstruction of a multinational investigation into the disappearance of her husband, then an employee in the U.S. Consulate in Curacao, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Lender Processing Services Inc. (LPS), a publicly traded mortgage servicing company based in Jacksonville, Fla., has agreed to pay $35 million in criminal penalties and forfeiture to address its participation in a six-year scheme to prepare and file more than 1 million fraudulently signed and notarized ...
By Commerce News Now | Feb 15, 2013
News Release: Deputy Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank Remarks on Revitalizing American Manufacturing, Spartanburg, South Carolina Thank you, Josef (Kerscher), and thanks to BMW for that great tour of the X3 assembly line. I’m delighted to have a chance to be in Spartanburg with your employees and business leaders from the community.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 15, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
