News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: FARMINGTON - The National Park Service will host an encampment at Fort Necessity National Battlefield on Saturday, July 20, and Sunday, July 21 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Pontiac's Rebellion.The camp will be open to visitors from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have shown how to make nanoscale measurements of critical properties of plasmonic nanomaterials-the specially engineered nanostructures that modify the interaction of light and matter for a variety of applications, including sensors, cloaking (invisibility), photovoltaics and therapeutics.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - After a four-week trial, a federal jury has convicted four metropolitan Atlanta gang members of committing multiple murders, attempted murders, armed robberies and firearms offenses in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Butte, on July 11, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, IRENE PASTER, age 65, and YOLANDA PASTER, age 40, residents of Big Sky, pled guilty to willful failure to file a tax return. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 25, 2013. They are currently released on special conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DENNIS LERNER, a former employee of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three years of probation for violating a criminal conflict of interest law and to...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Rural Development Acting Under Secretary Doug O’Brien today announced that USDA is accepting applications for grants to help rural public television broadcasters complete the transition to digital signals. Funding is available through the Department’s Public Television Station Digital Transition Grant Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Damion Canalichio, 43, of Turnersville, NJ, was sentenced today to 137 months in prison and a $1,000 fine for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving loan sharking and illegal gambling. In addition to his prison term, U.S. District Judge Eduardo C. Robreno ordered three years of supervised release.
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 and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), a member of the HELP Committee, today introduced bipartisan legislation that would make it easier for charities and cooperatives to continue...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: We are concerned about the process and capacity of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to carry out a key enforcement role that protects certain U.S. patent holders from imports that infringe their patents without disrupting legitimate trade. Under Section 337 of the Tariff Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today examined various legislative options for reforming the regulation of drug compounding and clarifying the authority of state and federal regulators. The subcommittee previously examined drug compounding on May 23, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - CHRISTIAN OUNANIAN and GINA VOGEL were indicted on charges of selling merchandise stolen from Walgreens and CVS drug stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced the arrests earlier today of Jeramie Ethan Mahler, 26, of Star, Idaho; Michelle Christina Ritch, 35, Nearia “Nick" William Pinnell, 42, Wendy Demirdjian Harrison, 52, and Daniel Eric Vaughan, 51, all of Nampa, Idaho; and Scott Vicente Hernandez, 42, of Oakland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Homero Varela, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today to 135 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on drug-trafficking and money laundering charges. Varela also was ordered to pay a $150,000 money judgment and to forfeit his right, title and interest in his Albuquerque residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Sidney L. Hall, age 63, of Atlanta, and formerly of Albany, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge, W. Louis Sands, in Albany, Georgia, to 48 months imprisonment. Hall was also ordered...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the Senate’s confirmation today of Richard Cordray to continue leading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB):
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to resisting a federal officer after he threatened workers at a local Social Security office and fought with Federal Protective Service (FPS) security officers.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, commended the 12 Attorneys General (AG) who today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failure to comply with the law in responding to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, related to specific "sue-and-settle" agreements with environmental groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID GILMARTIN, a Ph.D. economist, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to four years in prison for failing to file tax returns since 1989, evading payment of his taxes, and obstructing attempts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Crawford County woman has pleaded guilty to receiving more than $45,000 in federal aid she did not qualify to receive, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for illegally selling firearms and ammunition on multiple occasions for thousands of dollars in cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
