News from May 2013
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: An Environmental Assessment (EA) was completed in 2012 which examined the vulnerabilities of the current ash tree plantings to a destructive insect, the Emerald ash borer. It determined that the best course of action was to remove the single species planting of Rosehill ash trees and replace it with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Stefan Hiebert, 20, of Lewiston, Idaho, an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe, was sentenced today in United States District Court to six months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for burglary, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces today that Mary Jean Holzworth (63, Longwood) pleaded guilty to filing false tax documents. Holzworth faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: With mild temperatures and abundant wildflowers, June is a great time to visit the park. Be prepared with our free Wildflower app available for both Apple and Android devices. On your way to the park check out our 10 new roadside exhibits available at overlooks along US highway 20/26/93. Observe natural...
By EPA Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent intervention in program carriage negotiations. Upton and Walden spearheaded a bipartisan letter to the FCC in July 2012 expressing concerns with the agency’s actions.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Pacific Northwest Region will distribute WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grants to fund nine water conservation projects in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - - Four members of the now defunct Panama Unit have been convicted, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Javier Peña and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Jonathan Trevino, 29, Claudio Mata, 35, and Eric Alcantar, 29, all of McAllen, and Salvador Arguello, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John A. Cruz, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute heroin, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 58 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AHMET CILEK, 43, a citizen of Turkey last residing in Levittown, N.Y., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 62 months of imprisonment for his participation in an ATM skimming scheme across southern New England.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: In order to ensure visitor safety, the South Cedar Creek Canoe Launch and parking area at Congaree National Park in Hopkins, South Carolina, will be closed June 10-14. National Park Service crews from Kings Mountain National Military Park will assist Congaree staff in tree removal work during the closure.Trees...
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX- Jose Arnulfo Martinez, aka “Joe" Martinez, 49, of Phoenix, was found guilty by a federal jury on Tuesday of six counts of sexual abuse of a ward. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake from May 21, 2013 until May 28, 2013. Sentencing is set before Judge Wake on Aug. 26, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent intervention in program carriage negotiations. Upton and Walden spearheaded a bipartisan letter to the FCC in July 2012 expressing concerns with the agency’s actions.
By Interior Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the Twenty-First Annual Haunting in the Hills Storytelling Festival on Saturday, Sept. 21, 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, and volunteers to participate in this year's Storytelling Festival.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following a two-week jury trial, F. Harvey Whittemore, a prominent lawyer and former lobbyist in Nevada, was convicted today of making unlawful campaign contributions to a Senate campaign committee in 2007 and causing a false statement to be made to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), announced Daniel G. Bogden, U.S. Attorney for the District of Nevada and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney, Kenyen Brown, announces that a one-count information was returned today by a Federal Grand Jury against Delaine Williams, a 25 year old resident of Satsuma, Alabama. Williams was charged with one (1) count of providing false information to a federally insured institution in connection with mortgage loan application.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 140 months in prison today for possessing and distributing over the Internet images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 52-year-old White Bear Lake man was sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme that defrauded mortgage lenders out of at least $7 million. United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson sentenced Robert Leo Rick to three years in prison on one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud. Rick was charged on Dec. 23, 2011, and pleaded guilty on Jan. 27, 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today applauded the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling to overturn the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent intervention in program carriage negotiations. Upton and Walden spearheaded a bipartisan letter to the FCC in July 2012 expressing concerns with the agency’s actions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 29, 2013, Jamie Lee Belgarde of St. Michael, N.D., was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson on a charge of involuntary manslaughter. Belgarde pleaded guilty to the charge on March 6, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 29, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that arrests were made and indictments unsealed for the following individuals.