News from June 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - A male harlequin duck, known to be at least 17 years-old, was recently identified in Glacier National Park by University of Montana researchers and Glacier National Park scientists. The banded duck is believed to be the third oldest on record. The oldest known banded harlequin duck has a recorded age of 18 years and 10 months.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in reaction to an announcement by the U.S. Department of State that exceptions have been renewed for nine countries that continue to purchase Iranian crude oil, in contravention of U.S. sanctions laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: TAMPA - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Earl Eugene (58, Mulberry) to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute cocaine. The court also ordered Hampton to forfeit a 2004 Dodge Quad Cab ST recreational (RV), which was traceable to proceeds of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on June 3, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: NESTOR MURCIA-CARPIO, age 35, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Helen G. Berrigan to approximately eight months imprisonment, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Berrigan ordered that MURCIA be placed on...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: During Tuesday’s Education and the Workforce Committee hearing, Republican committee members took Americans’ questions about the implementation of the president’s health care law straight to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Fort Sumter National Monument will celebrate the 97th anniversary of Flag Day with free activities at the Fort Sumter Visitor Education Center in downtown Charleston on Friday, June 14th from 10:00 AM-3:00 PM. Designed primarily for children and families, the activities will offer visitors the opportunity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Marci Johnson, 46, of Kaufman, Texas, appeared in federal court today and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to an Information charging one count of mail fraud, stemming from her embezzlement of more than $772,000, over at least seven years, from her employer, Spaeth Communications. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Steven Banuelos (aka Ferrari Mike, aka Mike Banuelos) was sentenced yesterday to 6 ½ years in federal prison for running a three-year investment fraud scheme through which he fraudulently obtained approximately $2.6 million, announced United States Attorney Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Craig Jerome Gadley, Jr., 23, and Joshua Alexander Smith, 25, both of Mansfield, Texas, were each sentenced on Monday, June 3, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Terry R. Means, to 15-year federal prison sentences, following their guilty pleas last year to sex trafficking charges. Specifically...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Lorne Anthony Lyons, 51, of Brimley, Michigan and a member of the Bay Mills Indian Community, was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison for assault upon a federal officer, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Lyons to serve two years of supervised release following his release from prison and to pay a $100 special assessment.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew and Sebelius: I write to express concern and request information regarding the increasingly growing cost of the Refundable Premium Assistance Tax Credit, also known as the Advance Premium Tax Credit (APTC) established under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Gurinder Mand was sentenced today to 13 months in prison and ordered to pay $254,906.20 in restitution for her involvement in a health care fraud scheme operated out of a San Jose pharmacy, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Six artists have been selected for the summer 2013 Artist-in-Residence Program at Rocky Mountain National Park. Artists will be provided with a creative, contemplative environment in which to generate artistic works and share their works with the public. Artistic diversity, new ideas and creative uses of media were encouraged in the application process.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Abdulaziz Abdulahi Khalil was sentenced, yesterday, to 38 months in prison for accepting kickbacks in exchange for falsely passing citizenship applicants on their United States citizenship tests, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is currently accepting comments on an Environmental Assessment (EA) to analyze a proposal to conduct a prescribed fire and associated ecosystem study within Death Valley National Park (Park). Fifty acres of pinyon pine forest with scattered sagebrush at the intersection of the Hunter Mountain Road and the Hunter Cabin Road in the Cottonwood Mountains is the planned location of the project.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: The president of a Louisiana towing company pleaded guilty today to using his personal and business accounts to fund campaign contribution checks in the names of others in support of two candidates for the U.S. Senate, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Dana Boente announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: Seven people were indicted in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to steal copper from two dozen substations in Northeast Ohio owned by First Energy or Cleveland Public Power, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2013
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Today FBI Agents arrested Jenelle Pinkston, age 45, for allegedly calling in bomb threats to Albany, Oregon, elementary schools in April and May of this year. Pinkston faces one count of threatened use of a destructive device. If convicted, she faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison...
