News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of the Department of Energy Daniel B. Poneman regarding a new DOE Inspector General report indicating the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) had discriminated against veterans in its hiring practices and retaliated against employees who attempted to report the discrimination.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: National Park ServiceNews Release. - July 16, 2013. Merrith Baughman 402-223-3514. Enjoy Lively Latino Music with a Free Concert from Marcos & Sabor. at Homestead National Monument of America. OnSunday, July 28, 2013, at2 p.m.be a part of the Latino Musical Experience with Marcos & Sabor at the Homestead...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LENWORTH HAYNES, 55, of Stratford, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to six months of imprisonment and six months of home confinement with electronic monitoring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Matthew Wiggins allegedly viewed images of child pornography during public library visit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a father and son have been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today discussed the significant benefits of rising American oil production at a hearing held by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The purpose of the hearing was to consider gasoline prices, including a number of factors that could be affecting them, and broader changes taking place in the petroleum industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Two former law enforcement officers were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee for theft of government funds and property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former contractor to the United States Postal Service was sentenced today for stealing credit cards from a mail-sorting facility while on the job, and then using the credit cards to commit fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: A five-count indictment was filed charging three people from Ashland, Ohio, with engaging in a labor trafficking conspiracy and other crimes related to them holding woman with cognitive disabilities and her child against their will and forcing the woman to perform manual labor for them, law enforcement officials said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a third superseding indictment charging Ramon Miguel Cerros-Cruz, age 23, of Silver Spring, Maryland, and Alexsi Lopez, age 25, of Hyattsville, Maryland, with conspiracy and the violent robbery of a Hyattsville brothel that allegedly resulted in...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Songs and Stories of the Underground Railroad at National Park Summer Concert Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The former medical director at defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network (HCSN) and six therapists were arrested today, accused of conspiring to fraudulently bill Medicare and Florida Medicaid more than $63 million.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today the reopening of two popular off-road vehicle ramps in the Buxton area of Cape Hatteras National Seashore.Ramps 43 and 44 reopened to off-road vehicle (ORV) use on the morning of July 16, 2013 as the shorebird nesting season comes to a close in this section...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that today the Clerk of the Court distributed $31,788,917.44 in proceeds from forfeited assets to victims of the fraud committed at the Bayou hedge funds. The forfeited assets include approximately $2 million seized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Six men from Northeast Ohio were indicted on one count of conspiracy to distribute heroin, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the National Labor Relations Board...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today joined Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN), Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), and Rep. Luke Messer (R-IN) in hosting a roundtable event ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Rashia Wilson (27, formerly of Wimauma) to 19 ½ years in federal prison on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges stemming from her scheme to defraud the IRS, and to a consecutive 18 months in federal prison for being a felon...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - At approximately 1:00 p.m. on Monday, July 15 a lightning strike near Mather Point resulted in several visitors reporting injuries to the Grand Canyon Visitors Center. The group of visitors was standing near the rim when the lightning strike occurred. Four individuals were transported to the South Rim Clinic for evaluation of non-life-threatening injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An Allegheny County man has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months imprisonment, followed by 15 years supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. In advance of sentencing, Winter agreed to make a $2,000 restitution payment to the victim identified as "Vicky".
