News from June 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: A program about mysterious legends and stories of the Cumberland Plateau will take place at 7:00 p.m. (EDT) on Saturday, June 22, at the Bandy Creek campfire circle at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Visitors will learn how stories get started and hear legends that take place on or near the land that became the Big South Fork. Participants will also have the opportunity to tell a favorite story.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man has been sentenced to 235 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to interstate travel for the purpose of engaging in sex with a child, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Two additional closures have been lifted through volunteerism. Hard on the heels of the reopening of South Maumee and Rush campgrounds, Buffalo National River is pleased to announce that the Ponca restrooms and the Erbie Horsecamp have been reopened. The Upper Buffalo River Merchants Association has...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement regarding the recently exposed NSA surveillance programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Mo., man has been sentenced to federal prison for sex trafficking, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Ross Littlefield (48, Kissimmee) and Linda Littlefield (41, Kissimmee) have each pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a prohibited monetary transaction. They each face a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. The Littlefields were charged by information on April 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 42-year-old Mexican national was indicted for entering the United States illegally after previously being deported as a criminal. Leopoldo Rivera-Leal was specifically charged with one count of illegal re-entry after deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), announced the arrests today of eight individuals on a federal indictment charging with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute unregulated prescription pills and controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney also debuts video for young people on the dangers of prescription drug abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: NETZAHUALCOYOTL GUINTO-ASCENSCIO, age 37, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. GUINTO was sentenced to approximately six months imprisonment. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Zainey ordered...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Delbert Begaye, 56, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced this morning to ten years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. Begaye will be required to register as a sex offender after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The latest federal enforcement actions against the commercial marijuana industry in California came today as federal authorities moved against 103 illegal marijuana stores across Los Angeles County.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: DENVER -- Walgreens Corporation (Walgreens), the nation’s largest drug store chain, has agreed to pay $80 million in civil penalties for violations of the Controlled Substances Act, resolving an investigation in which the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado and the DEA’s Denver...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
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By US DOT Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, wrote to Ken Kopocis, nominee to become Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water and current Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the Agency's ongoing ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today led the committee to approve Mike Froman’s nomination to be U.S. Trade Representative by unanimous voice vote. The committee considered Froman’s nomination at a hearing on June 6th, during which Senator Baucus said the U.S. needs a strong trade representative on the job as Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations continue and free trade agreement talks with the E.U. ramp up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. announced the return of a superseding indictment against four men by a Federal Grand Jury on June 10, 2013. The charges include drug conspiracy, distribution of methamphetamine, and firearms possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Administrator Daniel Werfel requesting information about a March 2011 IRS search and seizure of as many as 60 million medical records from a California health care provider. The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on June 11, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individuals were arraigned.
