News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Bryan Ray Allen, 32, of San Juan Capistrano, California, faces an agreed sentence of forty-eight (48) months in federal prison after admitting to interference with a flight crew, United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan, El Paso Division, and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In aSenate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said that health care providers, technology vendors and the government must work together to create a seamless health information technology (HIT) system that improves the quality of care and lowers costs. He added...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) introduced legislation that would provide agencies with the tools needed to improve agency coordination on anti-waste and fraud efforts and curb millions...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: While there are many provisions in this bill that I support, a number of specific cuts are deeply troubling. This bill would require a drastic retreat from our engagement in multilateral organizations, and State and USAID personnel.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Flagstaff, AZ- The Flagstaff Area National Monuments will be hosting recent Grand Canyon Artist-in-Residence painter Elisabeth Condon from Tampa, Florida, July 21st - July 30th, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MICHAEL CRAWFORD, 36, of Canton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 210 months of imprisonment, followed by a lifetime term of supervised release, for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Today Daniel Erazo-Burgos and Brenda Velàzquez-Corchado, former procurement officials with the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PR DOE) were sentenced to 18 and 30 months of imprisonment respectively for conspiracy to commit a violation of Title 18 USC Section 666(a)(1)(B), Bribery Concerning Programs Receiving Federal funds, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Obstruction Point Road will be fully open to public access on Friday, July 26.Road crews are nearly finished clearing and grading the road surface between Waterhole and the road's terminus at the Obstruction Point trailhead.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Re-enactors from throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada will once again celebrate peace as they gather for the 15th Annual Encampment scheduled Saturday and Sunday, July 27-28 on the English Camp parade ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that John Swift, age 65, of St. Francis, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on July 23, 2013, and pled guilty to Larceny.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today issued the following statement responding to a speech delivered by President Obama on the economy today. Harkin, as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, authored the Rebuild America Act, far-reaching legislation that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A man and two women have been charged with sex trafficking in Asian massage parlors in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Stage 1 fire restrictions on all lands managed by the BLM Grand Junction and Colorado River Valley Field Offices still remain in effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - FBI special agents arrested two men in Brooklyn, N.Y., this morning in connection with armed robberies of T-Mobile stores in Paramus and Woodbridge, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man and a woman from Eagle Butte, South Dakota, were sentenced on July 22, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alexis Espinoza, 30, has entered a guilty plea to one count of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than 500 grams of methamphetamine, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court, a 23-year-old inmate was sentenced for retaliating against another inmate for being a government witness in a drug-trafficking trial. On July 23, 2013, United States District Court Judge David S. Doty sentenced Veronique Zsa zsa Antique Muckle to 121 months in prison on one count of federal witness retaliation. Muckle was indicted on Sept. 11, 2012, and was convicted on April 12, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the manager of the La Iguana Mexican Restaurant in Branson, Mo., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Norwood, Mo., man who volunteered as a church youth leader has pleaded guilty in federal court to two counts of enticing minors for illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse.
