News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Seventeen people were arrested today following their indictments on federal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation by the FBI/Metropolitan Police Department Safe Streets Task Force into a network that trafficked heroin, cocaine, and marijuana from Texas to the Washington, D.C. area. The drugs were then distributed in the Washington, D.C. area.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
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By USDA Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announces availability of the following credit guarantees for sales of U.S. agricultural commodities under the Commodity Credit Corporation's Export Credit Guarantee Program (GSM-102) for fiscal year 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Harley Harkness, 41, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today to 30 months in federal prison for his unlawful possession of firearms. Harkness will be on supervised release for two years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Gregory Steven Horn, age 38, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, today to 18 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery and armed bank robbery. Judge Bredar also ordered Horn to pay restitution of $802.50 for counseling for bank employees. Horn was on supervised release at the time of the offense for a 2001 federal bank robbery conviction in Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michele M. Leonhart, Administrator of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced the arrests of five defendants - SCOTT STAMMERS and PHILIP SHACKELS, citizens of the United Kingdom; YE...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House and Senate Democrats today introduced legislation to renew the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program for an additional year, preventing an immediate expiration of benefits for 1.3 million Americans during the week of Dec. 28. The legislation would effectively extend current...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams, once asked, “If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?".
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: A Baldwin man pled guilty on Nov. 20, 2013, to a three-count Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Receipt of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, in Count 2, with Access with Intent to View Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, and, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 20, 2013, Colt D. Schneider, 20, Rapid City, S.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland on a charge of bank robbery and a charge of use and carry of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. Schneider was found guilty of the charges by a federal jury on Aug. 22, 2013.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, wrote the following op-ed, “United States Must Stand Firm Against Russian Bullying in Europe," which was featured in today’s Roll Call.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: EVANSVILLE - U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Hogsett announced today the filing of federal charges against Melissa Isaacs, age 49, of Spencer County. According to a four count indictment returned by a grand jury this week, Isaacs allegedly used her position with the North Spencer County School Corporation to engage in a four year scheme to defraud Hoosier taxpayers of approximately $63,000 in school funds.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Robert (Bob) Fangmeyer, deputy director of the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program (BPEP) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been selected to be the program's new director. He will be only the third director to lead the BPEP since its establishment by Congress in 1987. Fangmeyer has served as acting director since his predecessor, Harry Hertz, retired in June, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 20, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2728, the Protecting States’ Rights to Promote American Energy Security Act.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: In support of the Obama Administration’s effort to advance our clean energy economy and support American innovation, the Energy Department today announced $19 million to reduce both hardware and non-hardware costs of solar and to drive greater solar energy deployment in the United States. This funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Noe Rodriguez, age 33, of Boyds, Maryland, on charges arising from a scheme in which he allegedly failed to comply with federal wage, hour and records regulations under the Davis-Bacon Act. The indictment also charges Rodriguez with identity fraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: A new e-mail chain released by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., states that just days prior to HealthCare.gov’s launch, a top HealthCare.gov official discussed White House fears about the website being unavailable and accurately predicted media outlets publicizing a now well-known error message that appears when the website is down.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: The instrument, called the Total solar irradiance Calibration Transfer Experiment offsite link (TCTE), is funded by NOAA’s next-generation Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS ) and designed to continue measurements of the total energy output of the sun. These measurements are used to measure light from the sun at all wavelengths, which is the primary energy source that drives climate on Earth, and determine if solar changes influence the Earth's climate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Federal and state authorities have arrested seven individuals, all of whom are believed to be associated with the Folk Nation gang operating in El Paso, charged in connection with a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent In Charge Joseph A. Arabit, El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen and El Paso County District Attorney Jaime Esparza.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that sometime after mid-December 2013, U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS) fire management staff, working under an agreement with the National Park Service (NPS), as part of the Outer Banks Group Fire Management Plan, will re-establish a fire break along the NPS boundary between parklands and the town of Nags Head.
