News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 1526, the “Restoring Healthy Forest for Healthy Communities Act" by a voice vote.This legislation renews the federal government’s commitment to manage federal forests for the benefit of rural schools and counties, improves forest health and helps prevent catastrophic wildfires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed five nominees to serve on the National Labor Relations Board...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Thousands of dollars’ worth of diesel fuel allegedly stolen from W.Va. Guard facility in Red House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Herbert Ben, Sr., 63, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty earlier today to sexually abusing a minor under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reaffirmed its commitment to work in cooperation with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) on any potential federal mineral lease opportunities within the state.“We believe that it is imperative to have open and collaborative communications with all of our...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 31, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today sent a to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Dan Ashe seeking additional information following the Department of the Interior Office of Inspector General’s (OIG) Management Advisory, issued on July 11, 2013, regarding the FWS’s inaction on whistleblower complaints related to violations of the scientific integrity policy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA-The Benjamin Franklin Museum in Independence National Historical Park will open for Museum Preview days starting on Aug. 24, 2013, after a two year rehabilitation project.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today asked the State Department to explain why the agency is still struggling to make status decisions on four employees faulted for their conduct by the Benghazi Accountability Review Board (ARB). More than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charges a 20-year-old Redby man with assaulting two other people while on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The indictment, which was filed on July 23, 2013, charges Ryan Devin Ravensborg with two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. The indictment was unsealed following Ravensborg’s initial appearance in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents, and officers assigned to the Puerto Rico Crimes Against Children Task Force (PRCACTF) arrested Victor Vega-Rodríguez, 21, of the municipality of Arroyo, and Kermet Cuebas-Crespo, 21, of Mayagüez, on two different criminal complaints for child pornography, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mobridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Floyd Andrew Brown, Jr., 35, of Lyons, Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DOMENICO MANCHISI, also known as “Dom," 65, of Shelton, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his involvement in an illegal sports bookmaking operation. MANCHISI also was ordered to pay a fine of $20,000 and to forfeit $20,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Shawn Lewis, 41, of Washington D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of second-degree murder for killing a man in June 2013 by setting him on fire at an apartment building in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of a North Attleboro company that tests compressed gas cylinders was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for falsifying the re-testing of thousands of cylinders.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been charged by Information with Assault by Striking, Beating and Wounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - An illegal alien found in Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of re-entry into the United States after deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on July 31, 2013, Darwin Cantarero-Sanchez, 26, of Honduras, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patrick A. Conmy on a charge of conspiracy to transport illegal alien and a charge of improper entry by an alien. Cantarero-Sanchez pleaded guilty to the charges on May 7, 2013.
