News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Franklin Adderley, Chief, Ft. Lauderdale Police Department, and Scott Israel, Sheriff, Broward Sheriff’s Office, announce that...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Mexican national Marco Garcia-Perez, 38, has been convicted of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Garcia-Perez was among seven charged in an ongoing conspiracy to harbor and hold smuggled aliens for ransom payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana-The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Handy-work for Earth Day: Garlic Mustard Pull.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: PRESCRIBED BURNS PLANNED AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for all of the 63 parcels offered. The sale was held at the BLM ES office, Springfield, Va. on March 21, 2013. The combined bids brought in $1,279,351 that is distributed between the Federal government and the states where the parcels were located. Regulations require the bidding to open at $2.00 per acre.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Delta Produce LP, of San Antonio, Texas, for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A former financial aid advisor at a Brockton training school was arrested today for stealing over $62,000 in student financial aid.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding President Obama's promise to "cut through the red tape, break through the bureaucratic hurdles, and make [Keystone XL pipeline] a priority, to go ahead and get it done" one year ago in Cushing, Oklahoma...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Peruvian national Jessie Katherine Gonzales Urquizo and Bahamian national Irene Mildred Janette Burrows were sentenced yesterday to serve 60 months and 36 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for private financial gain, announced U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Leominster man was convicted Friday in U.S. District Court in Worcester for various firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Former CPA David Parse Also Took Part In The Fraudulent Back-dating Of Tax Shelter Transactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: In El Paso this morning, former L.K.G. Enterprises, Inc., (LKG) president Ruben “Sonny" Garcia, Jr., was sentenced to four years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to embezzle federal program funds announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Mark Morgan.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: SULPHUR, OK- Effective March 1, 2013, "sequestration" (a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts) required Chickasaw National Recreation Area to reduce its annual budget by five percent.The park must absorb that cut in the remaining seven months of this fiscal year that ends September 30.The federal law imposing sequestration requires that each park take this cut.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida - Everglades National Park is pleased to invite kids who want to be Junior Rangers to visit the park for free onApril 6to learn how to, "Explore, Learn, and Protect" your national parks! Admission to the park will be free for families participating in the Junior Ranger Day event. Junior Ranger Day is an annual event and is part of the national Junior Ranger Program, designed specifically for kids and families who visit National Park Service sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: CHANEL M. MCGINNIS, age 28, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with embezzlement of mail matter by a postal employee, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - One year ago today, President Obama stood in front of a pile of steel pipes in Cushing, Oklahoma, and endorsed the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, calling for action to cut red tape and make the project a priority. But despite taking credit for this fraction of the pipeline’s...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Grand Canyon National Park will celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day with a weekend of activities April 19 - 21, 2013. The weekend will include a film about conservationist Aldo Leopold, a keynote presentation by author Mary Ellen Hannibal, and a day of fun and educational activities. Everyone is invited to take part.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (NY-16), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released this statement in response to the Cypriot court’s conviction of a Hezbollah operative laying the ground work for a terrorist attack on Cyprus, similar in nature to the Hezbollah attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists and one Bulgarian. The statement follows...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 22, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced onerous new government red tape that will discourage production of 1.5 trillion barrels of American oil shale.
