News published on Federal Newswire in November 2013

News from November 2013


News Release: With Cyber Monday approaching, consumers should educate themselves to prevent fraud, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announce today.


UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA NOV 28-DEC 15

News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA NOV 28-DEC 15.


News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 25, 2013, James A. Siegrist, a/k/a James A. Robinson, 33, Mandan, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm by a convicted felon and a charge of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. Siegrist was convicted of the charges by a federal jury on Aug. 28, 2013.


Mandan Man Sentenced for Felon in Possession Charges

News Release: BISMARCK- U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 25, 2013, James A. Siegrist, a/k/a James A. Robinson, 33, Mandan, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of possession of firearm by a convicted felon and a charge of possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon. Siegrist was convicted of the charges by a federal jury on Aug. 28, 2013.


Gettysburg’s Bob Kirby Receives Superior Service Award

News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis, and Northeast Regional Director Dennis Reidenbach presented Gettysburg National Military Park Superintendent Bob Kirby with the Superior Service Award of the Department of the Interior. The award came shortly after the close of the Nov. 19 program to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery at Gettysburg.


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East St. Louis Man Indicted For Armed Robbery Of Ferguson T.V. And Satellite Shop

News Release: Case Is Part of United States Attorney’s Armed Robbery Initiative.


News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Laquan Bell (23, Reading, Pennsylvania) to five and a half years in federal prison for credit card fraud. Bell pleaded guilty on July 22, 2013.


News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA -- Eboni Parker, age 33, of Milton, was arrested and charged today with two counts of maliciously conveying false information of a bomb threat, announced United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh, Northern District of Florida.


News Release: Over 1000 visitors joined Park Rangers and volunteers at the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the National Day of Mourning last weekend. Events included a new ranger program using the principles of facilitated dialog to ask questions about loss and belonging, a special exhibit and a memorial ceremony.


News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement today regarding the interim deal reached between the P5+1 and Iran on Iran’s illicit nuclear program.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in response to the agreement finalized tonight between Iran and the United States and other nations on Iran’s nuclear program...


News Release: The operator of the dragger F/V Norseman and an associated fish dealer were sentenced today in federal court in Central Islip, N.Y., for criminal violations stemming from their role in systematically underreporting fluke (summer flounder) that was being harvested as part of the federal Research Set-Aside Program, the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division announced.


News Release: Duke Energy Renewables Inc., a subsidiary of Duke Energy Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Wyoming today to violating the federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) in connection with the deaths of protected birds, including golden eagles, at two of the company’s wind projects in Wyoming. This case represents the first ever criminal enforcement of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act for unpermitted avian takings at wind projects.


News Release: After a three-week trial, a federal jury has convicted two MS-13 members for their roles in committing murders, attempted murders and armed robberies in Gwinnett and DeKalb counties in northern Georgia.


News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama has returned an indictment against J. Keith McCray, a criminal investigator with the Macon County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office for violating the rights of a man he unlawfully seized and assaulted.


News Release: Jonathan Caine, 20, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for making racially motivated threats to an African-American assistant football coach at a local high school, the Justice Department announced.


Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by Green Dot Bank DBA Bonneville Bank

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of an application under section 18(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act by Green Dot Bank DBA Bonneville Bank, Provo, Utah, to purchase certain assets and assume certain deposit liabilities of GE Capital Retail Bank, Draper, Utah.


News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker traveled to Munich, Germany today, where she met with business leaders and promoted SelectUSA, an initiative to attract more foreign investment in the United States.


News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker traveled to Munich, Germany today, where she met with business leaders and promoted SelectUSA, an initiative to attract more foreign investment in the United States.