News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is offering oil and gas leasing mineral rights on 64 parcels totaling 18,768 acres located on Federal lands in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. The oral auction will take place on Wednesday, July 17, 2013, at the BLM New Mexico State Office, 301 Dinosaur Trail, Santa...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) awarded fiscal year 2013 funding to more than 70 U.S. agricultural organizations to help expand commercial export markets for their goods. USDA remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, released the following statement after a Harkin-sponsored measure that would return federal student loan interest rates to 3.4 percent for one year failed to clear a procedural hurdle in the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Fernando Torres (41, Sarasota) pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of fraudulent tax returns. Torres faces a maximum penalty of six years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council will meet four more times before the NCA’s Draft Resource Management Plan comment period ends Aug. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: SERGIO JOSE NOGUEIRA, age 34, a citizen of Brazil, pled guilty in federal court today before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance, to a two-count indictment charging him with illegal use of a Social Security number and making false statements on a passport application, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By State Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement in response to today’s announcement by a consortium of American companies to improve garment factory safety in Bangladesh.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - William Wellington Hooper, Jr., 46, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Harry Siegfried Rahn, Jr., 52, of San Francisco, California were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of conspiracy, providing and accepting kickbacks relating to government contracts, wire fraud, and false statements.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Medicare’s payment system is seriously flawed and must be overhauled to deliver better value for patients and taxpayers. The Senator reiterated his call from a hearing in May that Congress repeal the sustainable...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service has released the draft Environmental Assessment for “Wabash Avenue/Porter Access Site", and is seeking public comment. Each unit of the national park system is driven by federal enabling legislation and this assessment is needed to ensure the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Jesus Ochoa Aguirre, age 30, from Mexico, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 8, 2013, and pled guilty to the Indictment that charged him with Illegal Reentry after Deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich today sentenced Angel Martinez (34, Dade City) to nineteen years in federal prison for possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and possessing firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The sentence consists of 14 years in federal prison for the drug trafficking offense, followed by a five year consecutive sentence for the firearm charge. Martinez pleaded guilty on April 19, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Defendant Arrested Twice With A Firearm And Meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: On July 10, 2013, Robert L. Jones, a 29-year old Alton, 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, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Elvis Espinosa, 46, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute heroin, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, the defendant was ordered deported to the Dominican Republic after his sentence is completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota woman convicted of Simple Assault and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on July 8, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Glacier National Park Rangers recovered the body of a 21-year old male from Davie, Florida, Tuesday evening, July 9, on Apikuni Mountain in the northeast area of the park. The individual was climbing the mountain with three other climbers when he fell approximately 1,000 feet to his death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Jarvis Romaine Bell, 33 of D’Iberville, Mississippi, was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. He was also ordered to pay a $5000 fine and forfeit a Springfield, 9mm pistol, model XDM9, and any ammunition.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: EAGLE, Colo. - A second day of higher humidity helped moderate fire activity on the Bull Gulch Fire, which has been burning on Bureau of Land Management lands in the remote Bull Gulch Wilderness Study Area since Sunday.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Benjamin Franklin once said, “You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.".
