News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their investigation into the National Telecommunication and Information Administration’s (NTIA) decision to award a $100.6 million stimulus grant to the EAGLE-Net Alliance in Colorado. The grant was funded through the Broadband Technology...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Guest blog post by Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Director, National Institute of Standards and Technology
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: AUGUSTA, Ga. - Demetrius L. McKinney, 33, of Augusta, Georgia, was sentenced today by United States District Judge J. Randal Hall, to 18 years 9 months in prison for possessing a handgun as a convicted felon. He was also sentenced to serve 5 years of supervised release upon his release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Eleven individuals have been indicted in connection with a prostitution ring operating in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Jose Luis Salazar, 70, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of sexual exploitation of minors, commonly known as distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Salazar pleaded guilty March 11, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their investigation into the National Telecommunication and Information Administration’s (NTIA) decision to award a $100.6 million stimulus grant to the EAGLE-Net Alliance in Colorado. The grant was funded through the Broadband Technology...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: A former President and Secretary-Treasurer of Communication Workers Local 84555 in Webberville have been sentenced to prison for embezzling union funds, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Saipan, MP - United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that on June 12, 2013, following a successful appeal by the United States, Timothy P. Villagomez, former Lieutenant Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, was re-sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 108 months on corruption charges. Mr. Villagomez had initially been sentenced to 87 months in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power today held a joint hearing to discuss the role that the recent American energy boom is having on the country’s manufacturing sector. The panels explored how new technologies and innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O'Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces that a federal jury found Henry (59, Davenport) guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Leland Ray (John) Smith, age 70, and his younger brother, Bradford Moroni (Brad) Smith, age 65, both from Craig, Colorado, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on Tuesday, charged with two counts of committing crimes on BLM land, the United States Attorney’s Office and the Bureau...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Senators Raise Questions about Government Review Process of Food Safety & National Security
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - Patricia Marie Sawasky, 46, of Brimley, Michigan, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar ordered Sawasky to serve two years of supervised release following her release from prison, and to pay a $100 special assessment. Sawasky had pled guilty in February.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Energy and Power today held a joint hearing to discuss the role that the recent American energy boom is having on the country’s manufacturing sector. The panels explored how new technologies and innovation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Alan Clifton, age 27, of Halethorpe, Maryland, today to 7 years in prison, followed by 30 years of supervised release, for possession, receipt and transportation of child pornography. Judge Bennett ordered that upon his release from...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.), ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted down its 2013 farm bill...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: Tusayan/Grand Canyon, AZ - 3:00 p.m. June 20, 2013 - The Halfway fire is currently 100 percent contained and exhibiting minimal fire behavior as it moves into areas that previously experienced either prescribed fire or wildfire. This previous fire history has allowed crews to move quickly and safety...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bull Gulch fire continues to burn nine miles northeast of Cotopaxi in Fremont County. It has burned 150 acres in brush, piñon, juniper and ponderosa pine forests. Eight smokejumpers, two 20-person hand crews, one Type 6 engine and about...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on June 19, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, FABIO NOEL-RODRIGUEZ, age 37, was sentenced to a term of.
