News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: The National Weather Service has issued a beach hazards statement for large northwest swells that will approach the coast on Thursday. Swells are expected to build to 8 to 10 feet on Thursday which will translate into larger than normal surf, possible sneaker waves, and rip currents along Point Reyes beaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two former Mexican politicians from the State of Coahuila have been indicted on charges of conspiring to launder monetary instruments, bank fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Emmonak woman who pled guilty was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for four felony violations of theft of mail by an officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted the former jail administrator of the Clay County Detention Center for violating the civil rights of four inmates by using his authority to sexually abuse or otherwise deprive the inmates of their constitutional rights, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the president’s signing of H.R. 3204, the Drug Quality and Security Act, into law. H.R. 3204 was the product of a yearlong investigation and bipartisan negotiation that led to this breakthrough agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a statement in response to the Obama administration’s new proposal to clarify the rules regarding the political activity that tax-exempt social welfare groups can engage in...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement in response to the administration’s delay of the online small business exchange enrollment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Jeremy S. Peres, age 44, of Denver, Colorado, and a former DEA pilot, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Blackburn to serve 1 years’ probation, and was ordered to pay restitution totaling $4,368 to the federal government for making and using a false document knowing it contains...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement in response to the administration’s delay of the online small business exchange enrollment...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced the appointment of 35 members and three alternate members to the United Soybean Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES -- Several California companies and individuals that formerly supplied beef to the National School Lunch Program have agreed to settle allegations of inhumane handling of cattle, circumventing appropriate inspection of nonambulatory disabled (“downer") cattle and false representations regarding their eligibility to process beef, the Justice Department announced today. The announcement follows approval of the last of these settlements by a California probate court.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: Survival is never easy, especially if you're hungry. On Sunday, December 8 from 1- 4 pm, Biscayne National Park will kick off the 14th season of the award-winning Family Fun Fest with "The Hungry Games," a look at some of the amazing ways the park's animals gather their food. New for the 2013-2014 season...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded the news that the president had signed the PREEMIE Reauthorization Act into law. This is the second Energy and Commerce Committee bill to be signed into law in recent days. The president last week signed the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former union officer from Local 164 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) was convicted today of embezzling funds by ensuring his then-girlfriend got paid by the union for unauthorized and unnecessary work, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A man who stole hundreds of thousands of dollars of expensive jewelry from persons at golf courses and sold it at trade shows, jewelry stores and pawn shops, has been sentenced to two years in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $300,895 in restitution, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA- Selena Noblit, 43, of Panama City, Florida, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle to a one-year term of probation, 192 hours of community service, and a $100 special monetary assesment for the theft of over $11,000 in government funds belonging to the Apalachicola Housing Authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Nathan Snape, 37, of Enfield, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Larceny was sentenced on Nov. 25, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 26, 2013
News Release: Alamogordo NM. White Sands National Monument plans to conduct a test burn with two small, ephemeral campfires on an active gypsum sand dune near the administrative complex within the monument on 2/21/13. The test burn is part of a research study to analyze the transformation of gypsum to anhydrite when...
