News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today the return of an indictment charging Ray Charles Gasaway (47, Glen St. Mary) with failing to register as sex offender in the state of Florida, after traveling from the state of Tennessee. Gasaway faces up to 10...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Building on President Obama's Climate Action Plan, which calls for steady, responsible steps to reduce carbon pollution and reduce energy bills for U.S. businesses, the Energy Department today announced an award of $10 million for six projects to help small commercial buildings save money by saving energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 28-year-old Brooklyn Center man was indicted for conspiring to and distributing methamphetamine. Ricardo Lamar Rodrigues was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine...
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the transfer of weapons systems by Cuba to North Korea. The statement follows:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Husband Who Was Charged With Her Sentenced Last Month.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted the 40th anniversary of the Senate approving construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline (TAPS) in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, DANIEL YOUNG, a 35-year-old resident of Billings, appeared for sentencing. YOUNG was sentenced to a term of.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: SAGUACHE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking to fill one vacancy on its Rio Grande Natural Area Commission.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles Rangel (D-NY), and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) announced the re-introduction of H.R. 2708, the U.S. Job Creation and Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation provides temporary tax relief to help U.S. manufacturers better compete, expand and create jobs.in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted $49,842,283 in revenues from the sale of 87 Federal leases, totaling 19,015 acres, in North and South...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - Volunteers are invited to join the Bureau of Land Management, the Nature Conservancy, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and other partners of the Gunnison Climate Working Group for the Wolf Creek Restoration/Resilience Building Volunteer Day on Saturday, Aug. 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Here we go again. Another repeal vote. Another political sideshow. And another blow to bipartisanship which is so vital to addressing a whole host of important issues including an issue important to our Committee: Tax reform. Instead of moving forward, once again my Republican colleagues are looking backwards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Shawn Verrill, 23, was sentenced today in United States District Court before United States District Judge D. Brock Hornby...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Terence Orlando Delly, age 36, of Reisterstown, Maryland, late yesterday to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced legislation to return the U.S. Postal Service to long-term solvency and sustainability. The Innovate to Deliver (I2D) Act of 2013 (H.R. 2690) would address the agency's financial challenges through innovative structural changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Judy Lynn McCune, Loretta Ann McCune and Rania Ann Sanchez have been ordered to prison for conspiring to defraud the federal government in a scheme to prepare federal tax returns and cash refund checks in the name of deceased individuals, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today along with Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Lucy Cruz. The three women entered pleas of guilty in April 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department today awarded nearly $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students pursuing nuclear engineering and science degrees. The awards include 37 undergraduate scholarships and 31 graduate-level fellowships for students studying at American colleges and universities.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for rural electric projects in seven states to provide reliable, affordable electricity for rural residents. 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Aaron Eich, age 29, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Chris Paclik, age 21, of Brookings, South Dakota, both appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Simko on July 15, 2013, and pled guilty to the Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations. They were charged by Information and Eich pled guilty to Count V of the Information that charged him and Paclik pled guilty to Count IV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Keith Keiffer received packages containing thousands of powerful painkiller pills by mail from Fla.; deposited at least $30,000 in bank as payment for pills.
