News from June 2013
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Congaree National Park Superintendent Tracy Stakely has announced adjustments to two park regulations in an effort to provide an improved experience for park visitors.The interim regulations allow for leashed pet access on the park's 2.4 mile boardwalk and opens Weston Lake to fishing. Both regulations are effective immediately and will run on a trial basis through Oct. 1, 2013. During the trial period, potential impacts to park resources will be evaluated.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: SITKA NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - Following in the footsteps of Sitka National Historical Park’s first custodian, E.W. Merrill, whose photographs from the turn of the century documented the arrival of the totem poles to the park, two specially trained architects will laser scan the park’s totem poles this weekend, preserving them digitally for a permanent collection in the Library of Congress archives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: ROBERT PACKNETT, age 47, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty as charged today before the U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to a bill of information charging him with one count of bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: The true tragedy of this bill is that we have squandered an opportunity to meet the needs of millions of fellow Americans and of our housing and transportation infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced June 13, 2013, to ten years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the announcement that President Obama intends to nominate Mr. Ronald Binz to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and, if he is confirmed, to designate Mr. Binz as Chair to succeed departing Chairman Jon Wellinghoff:
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today proposed a “blank-slate" approach as a legislative starting point for tax reform and called on Senate colleagues to provide proposals for tax expenditures to add back and improve in a reformed tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - The founder of a Kansas-based insurance franchising business has pleaded guilty to filing an annual report with the Securities and Exchange Commission that contained misleading statements about the now-defunct company’s finances, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tuffek Mohammed Ali Saleh, 41, a citizen and national of Yemen, was arrested in Rochester and charged by criminal complaint with making a false statement on an immigration document, making a false statement to an Immigrant Official and making a false claim of United States Citizenship. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a fine of up to $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: FARMINGTON, Pa., - The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8543 Band from North Union Township will perform an outdoor concert at Fort Necessity National Battlefield Wednesday, July 3.The US Citizenship and Immigration Service will conduct a naturalization ceremony at the park visitor center at 11:00 a.m....
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Criminal Complaint Charges Individuals with Scheme to Defraud Spanish-Speaking Consumers by Threatening Them with Deportation.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today proposed a “blank-slate" approach as a legislative starting point for tax reform and called on Senate colleagues to provide proposals for tax expenditures to add back and improve in a reformed tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a U.S. Postal Inspector and a Consumer Fraud Analyst were awarded the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Criminal Liaison Unit’s Consumer Shield Award for their dedicated efforts related to the investigation of the MoneyGram fraud case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JULIUS C. BLACKWELDER, 59, formerly of Stratford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating an investment fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kevin Richard Halligen, 51, an Irish citizen, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for carrying out a scheme in which he defrauded $2.1 million from a Netherlands-based commodities trading company, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WARTBURG, Tennessee: Free Wi-Fi is now available inside the Obed Wild and Scenic River Visitor Center seven days a week from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern). The park is providing the service to help both residents and visitors plan their time in the Obed. "We know that many people who are traveling...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wanda Williams, 52, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of theft of government property, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci to five years probation, 100 hours of community service and was ordered to repay $13,181 to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: A man who distributed and received child pornography was sentenced June 26, 2013, to eighteen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On June 25, 2013, Michael James Allison, age 48, of Marshalltown, Iowa, pled guilty to mail fraud, in connection with a scheme to defraud his employer through the mailing of fraudulent expense reports for reimbursement announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By State Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, commended the Administration’s decision to suspend Generalized System of Preference (GSP) benefits to Bangladesh.
