News from November 2013
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Keshi (Hello), I’d like to start by saying e:lah’kwa (thank you) for the opportunity to visit the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) facilities in October. The tour, led by Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Project Lead Colton Heaps and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: A man who downloaded and possessed child pornography was sentenced today to over seventeen years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a La Plant, South Dakota, man and woman convicted of Incest were sentenced on Nov. 18, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: New garden- and dry-pea breeding lines developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators may offer growers added insurance against Aphanomyces root rot, a disease that can cause crop yield losses of 20 to 100 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Elena Ruiz, 48, of Drexel Hill, PA, was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison and Brian Welsh, 50, of Springfield, PA, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for their roles in the tax evasion scheme carried out by the owners of the ANifty Fifty=s@ restaurant chain. Joseph Donnelly, 50, of Springfield, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 28 months in prison for his role.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: David J. Pederson, 55, formerly an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp at Marion, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a term of 60 months in prison for escaping from custody while on an unescorted transfer via bus between that facility and one in Council Bluffs, Iowa...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Matthew Castaneda, 23, of Big Spring, Texas, was arrested yesterday on a federal indictment, returned by a grand jury last week and unsealed today, charging him with one count of bribery of public officials. Castaneda made his initial appearance in federal court today before U.S. Magistrate...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that Charles Robert Lester (49, Ocala) pleaded guilty late yesterday to unlawful possession of six machineguns. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, a jury found BRIAN WILLIAM McKYE, 49, from Bethany, Oklahoma, guilty of seven counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering for operating a Ponzi scheme, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Philana Red Feather, a/k/a Philana Garcia, age 37, of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on Nov. 15, 2013, and pled guilty to misdemeanor Larceny.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III, announces that Charles Robert Lester (49, Ocala) pleaded guilty late yesterday to unlawful possession of six machineguns. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Defendant Was Convicted Of Racketeering And Firearms Offenses, Including Two Murders, Following A Six-Week Trial In February And March 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Dolly, 48, of Gasport, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, cocaine and crack cocaine, was sentenced to eight months home confinement and three-years supervised release by U.S. District Chief Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that four South-central men were charged by information with the illegal take, possession and transport of two bull moose taken in Denali National Park in September 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: JOPLIN, Mo.-Nationally accepted standards for building design and construction, public shelters and emergency communications can significantly reduce deaths and the steep economic costs of property damage caused by tornadoes. That is the key conclusion of a two-year technical investigation by the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) into the impacts of the May 22, 2011, tornado that struck Joplin, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two marijuana growers were sentenced today for their involvement in separate indoor marijuana cultivation operations in Elk Grove, Sacramento, San Jose, and Milpitas, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and DEA Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Ian H. Ranberg, 47, of Souderton, PA, was charged today by Indictment1 with receipt, distribution and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Ranberg received images of child pornography between May 23, 2012 and May 29, 2012...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Two former water department officials for the southwest suburban Village of Crestwood were each sentenced today to two years’ probation for lying repeatedly to environmental regulators for more than 20 years about using a water well to supplement the village’s drinking water supply. The defendants...
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A bipartisan group of 14 U.S. Senators today released the following statement regarding the Senate's consideration of Iran sanctions legislation:
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Hector Lopez, the former president of the Metal Polishers Union (Local 8A-28A) (the “Union") and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Local 8A-28A welfare fund (the “Fund"), was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 48 months following his convictions...
