News from March 2013
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Effective March 1, 2013, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) was required by "sequestration" (a series of automatic, across-the-board permanent spending cuts) 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 DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William B. McNichols, 48, who handled accounting and other financial matters for a Washington, D.C. law firm, pled guilty today to one count of mail fraud in the embezzlement of more than $730,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - David Burrus, Jr., age 39, a former Virginia Beach resident now living in Burns, TN, pleaded guilty today in Norfolk federal court to conspiring to commit mail and wire fraud in conjunction with mortgage loans he obtained from 2005 through 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Manilla, 51, of Worcester, PA, pleaded guilty today to possession of firearms by a convicted felon. Manilla was found to be in possession of multiple firearms and ammunition when police investigated the November 2010 shooting death of a hunter. Manilla, who fired the fatal shot, was prohibited from possessing any weapons because of his conviction on aggravated assault for the 1985 beating of another man.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today released the following statement after President Obama nominated Thomas E. Perez to serve as the next secretary for the Department of Labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Birmingham man pleaded guilty today in federal court to threatening the life of President Barack Obama on the social network Twitter, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John H. England III and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Roy Sexton.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Johnstown, Pa. - A resident of Derry, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: An Eastlake man was sentenced to more than two years in prison and ordered to pay $1 million for his role in a fraud against St. Paul Croatian Federal Credit Union, said Steven M. Dettelbach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three New Jersey men and one New York man have been arrested in connection with a scheme to allegedly distribute kilogram amounts a controlled substance commonly known as “bath salts," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Texas woman working as a contractor for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA") admitted today that she demanded and received an illegal gratuity from a New Jersey resident who had applied for FEMA assistance for property damaged by Hurricane Irene, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, NH -Heidi Lacerte, 48, of Weare, has been sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 13 months in federal prison, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $55,000 in restitution for embezzling Social Security Administration and Veterans Affairs benefits, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: The pale cyst nematode, Globodera pallida, is one bad roundworm.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, March 20 at 10:00 a.m., the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 1120). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Programs Allegedly Violated Inventory Provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss - On Monday, March 18, 2013, Bridget Michelle Bland, 44, of Forest, and Willie Charles Rhodes, 54, of Brandon, pled guilty in U.S. District Court to money laundering the drug proceeds of Forest, Mississippi drug dealer, Jessie Hall, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Bland also pled guilty to causing a business to file a false report to the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Thirteenth Annual Spring Planting Festival on Saturday, April 27, 2013. Traditional arts and crafts will be included as part of the festival throughout the day. The park would like to take this opportunity to extend an invitation to all interested crafts persons, musicians, volunteers, and food vendors to participate in this year's Spring Planting Festival.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 18, 2013, Victor L. Fields, 47, Pasco, Wash., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm and ammunition by a person convicted of domestic violence. Fields pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 18, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months incarceration, three years of supervised release, and $6,000 fine on his conviction of tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2013
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park Celebrates Bell and History Day with a Frederick County Outdoor School Reunion and Blacksmith Shop Demonstration.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing part one of the documentary film Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony on Friday, March 22, and Saturday, March 23, 2013.
