News from July 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA - Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve Superintendent Susan L. Boudreau announced today that the 10 knot speed limit for cruise ships in current "whale waters" will be lifted effective 5 AM Saturday July 27. Changes in humpback whale numbers and distribution in lower Glacier Bay...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: On July 25, 2013, David M. Hightower, a twenty-two year old St. Louis, MO, man pled guilty in federal district court, in East St. Louis, to failure to register as a sex offender, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Hightower is scheduled...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A California man who orchestrated a double escrow mortgage fraud scheme involving eight houses in the Las Vegas, Nev. area, has been sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay over $3.5 million in restitution, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Amos Singleton, 58, of Philadelphia, was sentenced late yesterday to 30 years in prison for the armed robbery of an employee of the Walnut Lane Apartments, at 236 West Walnut Lane in Philadelphia, in November 2010. Singleton and Corey Pasley, who worked at the apartment complex as a security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to distribute marijuana on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: The 2013 Thursdays in the Park Concert Series continues its weekly summer series with a performance of maritime music featuring Jerry Bryant.The free concert takes place Thursday, August 1 from 6:30-7:15 in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park garden (33 William Street). In the event of inclement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The effort to streamline the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) reporting process is gaining momentum in Congress. Reps. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) today introduced the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act, H.R. 2844, and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) is set to introduce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Arnoldo Sanchez Farias was sentenced on Tuesday to 25 years in prison for methamphetamine trafficking and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 25, 2013, Carlos Alvarado, age 45, from Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner to 18 years imprisonment for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Gritzner also sentenced Alvarado to eight years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on July 26, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, RODNEY LANE COOPER, a 50-year-old resident of Havre, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., returned a guilty verdict late yesterday afternoon against Yuren Aranda-Diaz, 34, a Mexican national illegally in the United States, on drug trafficking and firearms charges after a two-day trial. The guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery sentenced 36-year-old Gemase Lee Simmons of San Antonio to 10,776 months, or 898 years, in federal prison after convicting him in February of 39 counts of various bank fraud and child pornography related offenses announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maria N. Werts, 49, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to seven years in prison on charges stemming from a traffic fatality last spring in Southwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of July 29, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday and continuing into Wednesday, the full committee has scheduled a markup of the Medicare Patient Access and Quality Improvement Act and the FCC...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that BRYAN ZURIFF, a Hollywood producer, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court in connection with his role in the operation of a high-stakes illegal sports gambling business run by an organized crime enterprise. ZURIFF pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman to accepting a financial instrument in connection with unlawful Internet gambling.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: French fries typically soak up a lot of oil while they're in the deep-fat fryer. But U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist Zhongli Pan and his colleagues have shown that prepping the raw fries for three minutes with infrared (IR) heat, before the fries are dunked in the fryer, can reduce oil uptake by about one-third, as compared to raw fries not treated with IR.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON-Robert Glenn Baker, 57, of Houston, has been sentenced for conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statute, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Baker pleaded guilty to the charge on Aug. 15, 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 26, 2013
News Release: Olympic National Park will host an exciting opportunity for cyclists to "Ride the Hurricane" on Sunday, August 4.
