News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Mike Froman to be U.S. Trade Representative by a vote of 93 to 4.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Tusayan/Grand Canyon, AZ - The Halfway fire is currently burning north of the Ten X Ranch and 5 miles due east of Tusayan, AZ. The fire, which is burning on National Forest and National Park Service lands, is approximately 125 acres in size (100 acres on National Forest/25 acres on National Park Service).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Earlier today, a federal jury sitting in Las Cruces, N.M., found Manuel Paulino Alvarez-Valdez, 36, of Juarez, Mexico, guilty on marijuana importation and trafficking charges after a three-day trial. The jury’s guilty verdict was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Special Agent in Charge Dennis A. Ulrich, II, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) El Paso.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Episode Marks 21st Web Video of Yosemite Nature Notes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Defendants Also Agree To Forfeit Their Interests In More Than $31 Million In Cash And Property Tied To The Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: LUIS BAENA-OLIVARES, age 52, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday in federal court by U.S. District Judge Jay C. Zainey to 37 months imprisonment, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Zainey ordered that BAENA be placed on three years of supervised...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded Senate passage of legislation honoring Alaskan Native Walter Harper, the first man to summit North America’s highest peak.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced that five men have been convicted in connection what is believed to be the largest seizure of crystal methamphetamine (or “ice") in the state of Michigan. In June of 2012, a confidential informant told the Department of Homeland...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), and Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) joined together today to call for ideas on how to improve care for Medicare patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jerrel Lee Charles, age 21, was sentenced today for committing an Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, a crime to which he pleaded guilty in March, 2013. Senior District Court Judge Edward...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Randy P. Courville, 53, of Milton, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to serve 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release for theft of government money. The judge also ordered Courville to pay $324,818 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Admits He Made More Than $40,000 By Falsely Claiming Art Was Chihuly’s.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Palatine, Ill., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, misbranding of drugs and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A suburban Pittsburgh man has been sentenced in federal court to 10 years imprisonment and three years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Committee on House Administration Chairman Candice Miller, R-Mich., and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement after receiving confirmation that the United States Postal Service (USPS) is following their recommendation to close the underutilized House facilities...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for peanut producer and processing organization candidates to serve on the Peanut Standards Board (Board). Nominations are due by July 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Jose Antonio Abreu-Arbolaez, 38, of Cuba, and Yoany Quesada-Romero, 29, of Tampa, Fla., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to each serve 10 months in prison and one year of supervised release for conspiracy to possess more than 15 counterfeit credit cards.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: The Big Meadows Fire is now considered to be 95% contained; the fire remains at 604 acres. This will be the last update unless there are considerable changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2013
News Release: Scheme included creation of a remotely operated X-ray radiation emitting device designed to kill humans silently.
