News from May 2013
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Acting Under Secretary for Rural Development Doug O’Brien today announced payments to producers in 38 states to support the production of advanced biofuels. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today’s announcement is one part of the Department’s efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: 92 defendants have been charged to date in Operation Sledgehammer I-VI.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Suspect Allegedly Conspired to Provide Support to Terrorist Organization; Demonstrated the Making and Use of Explosive Devices.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Defendant Charged With Misappropriating Almost $1 Million in Charitable Donations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MAY 16 (FT MYERS, Fla.) - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele has sentenced the following individuals to federal prison for their participation in a conspiracy to manufacture, possess with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base, also known as “crack cocaine."
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota man convicted of Assaulting a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 13, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today approved 26 public lands bills, including three pieces of legislation sponsored by the committee’s ranking Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. The bills now head to the Senate floor for consideration by the full Senate.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a torch light tour of the Chattanooga National Cemetery on Monday evening, May 27, 2013, at 8:45 p.m. Park Historian Jim Ogden will lead this ninety minute, one mile walking tour in partnership...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: KALEB DEAKLE, age 24, a resident of Atlanta, Georgia, pled guilty today in federal court before U. S. District Court Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to wire fraud, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MAY 16 - BOISE, Idaho - A federal grand jury in Boise on Tuesday indicted five Boise area residents on four counts of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance analogue; conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States; conspiracy to sell and transport drug paraphernalia; and conspiracy to launder money. The indictment was unsealed by the court on Wednesday.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement on the release of the updated draft rule for hydraulic fracturing of oil and natural gas wells on federally managed lands by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM):
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) made the synthetic cannabinoids UR-144, XLR11, and AKB48 Schedule I, illegal drugs under the Controlled Substances (CSA) for the next two years. These cannabinoids areoften seen in so-called “fake pot" products that are falsely marketed and sold as “herbal incense" or “potpourri" products on the Internet and by a variety of retail stores.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on May 14, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, SHAHID SINDHU KHAN, a 39-year-old resident of Othello, Washington, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: “Over 75 years ago, Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act, guaranteeing American workers the right to form and join a union and bargain for a better life. For both union and non-union workers alike, the Act provides essential protections - it gives workers a voice, and the ability to join...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement on the House floor in opposition to the 37th ObamaCare repeal vote...
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Justice Office of Inspector General (DOJ OIG) audit on how known or suspected terrorists are handled after placed in the federal Witness...
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: Fire Management staff at Denali National Park and Preserve are planning to burn debris consisting of trees and brush between Sunday, May 19 and Friday, June 7, as weather conditions permit.The single pile is located at the Toklat Road Camp, approximately one-half mile north of the...
By USDA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 16, 2013-U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have developed a new cell line that rapidly and accurately detects foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV), which causes a highly contagious and economically devastating disease in cattle and other cloven-hoofed animals.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 46-year-old Scranton resident was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo in Scranton to 70 months in prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that TIMOTHY R. SCHLATRE, 35, of Denham Springs has been sentenced for his creation and execution of a scheme to defraud life insurance companies, including New York Life and Lincoln Financial. District Court Judge James...
