News from June 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commended her colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for helping advance legislation to officially restore the nation’s tallest peak, Mount McKinley, to its traditional Koyukon Athabascan name, Denali.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to a hearing scheduled today before the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Human Resources, Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett declared, “Some Republicans are calling nursing care for seniors, Pell Grants for students and tax relief for working families ‘welfare.’ Using that label in an attempt to make it easier to cut these programs that provide economic security and opportunity for millions of Americans is misleading.".
By State Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), is leading the bipartisan effort to reform food aid to feed more people, more quickly, at a lower cost. Following a reform proposal by...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: DEL NORTE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office is seeking public input on the preliminary environmental assessment for the proposed San Francisco Creek #1 Well. The EA is being conducted in response to an application for permit to drill from the Dan A. Hughes Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Earlier today in federal court, an Edina mortgage broker was sentenced for his role in a $20 million mortgage fraud scheme that involved 57 properties. United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen sentenced Derrick Ivan Lance, age 41, of Edina, to 46 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release on one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Lance was charged on July 22, 2011, and pleaded guilty on Aug. 10, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was On State Probation for Prior Offense.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 240,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a special event will be held on Thursday, June 20, 2013 from 5:30 - 8:00 pm in recognition of June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month. The program will be held at the Historic Federal Courthouse located at 517 East Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee. The reception will begin at 5:30pm followed closely by the formal program. The event is open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Debbie Foust, 60, of Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, a real estate broker and former owner of Century 21 Music City, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court, to one count of wire fraud, announced David Rivera, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The charge arises from Foust’s scheme to defraud her clients of funds provided as a down payment for a purchase of commercial real estate.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: The overall allocation provided to this Committee by the Ryan Budget Resolution was unworkable from the start. It forced impossible choices and is, predictably, creating winners and losers among our twelve subcommittees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas Walker and District Attorney Scott Thomas announced that today in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced Walter Terion Brown, 25, of New Bern, NC to 108 months imprisonment, followed by 4 years of supervised release. BROWN was also ordered to pay $2,160 in restitution to the New Bern Police Department and Carteret County Sheriff’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on June 17, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, ALOYSIOUS WELLS, a 25-year-old resident of Heart Butte and an enrolled member of the Blackfeet Tribe, was sentenced to a term of.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on four produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Leslie A. Briggs, 36, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for theft of government property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Briggs to pay restitution of $103,611.76. She pleaded guilty to the charge on March 28, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: President Franklin Roosevelt once said that the best way to address a problem is, “In the cold light of day, to analyze it, to ask questions, to call for answers, to use every knowledge, every science we possess, to apply common sense.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Florida announced that Brandon Gillreath, 33, and Corine Motley, 25, a married couple from Mary Ester, Florida, were sentenced late yesterday afternoon on federal charges of conspiring to produce child pornography. Gillreath...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Tucson, Ariz. (June 17, 2013) --- Effective Wednesday, June 19, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of the Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical Park, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, and the Arizona State Forestry Division will increase campfire and smoking restrictions in southeastern Arizona.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - Last week the BLM’s Royal Gorge Field Office began Stage 1 fire restrictions. This decision is based on current fire danger and the predicted weather conditions for Colorado’s Front Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for stealing benefit money from FEMA through fraud relating to a presidential disaster declaration for the state of New Jersey after the nor’easter in 2010, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that JONATHAN GRACIA, 24, formerly of Middletown, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Thomas P. Smith in Hartford to one count of wire fraud stemming from an investment fraud scheme.
