News from October 2013
By EPA Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it has invited several of the health care law’s top contractors to testify at this Thursday’s hearing - PPACA Implementation: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? For months, administration officials and contractors alike assured...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park invites everyone to experience "Christmas at the LBJ Boyhood Home" on Nov. 30, December 7, and December 14. National park rangers will provide an open house of this historic home, all decked out for a Christmas celebration in the 1920s from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. each evening.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: National Park Service News Release. -Oct. 21, 2013. Merrith Baughman 402-223-3514. Ready for a Howling Good Time!?!. Come one, come all to Howling Homestead 2013 at Homestead National Monument of America! Join park rangers, volunteers, and special guest presenters for a night full of family fun onSaturday...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it has invited several of the health care law’s top contractors to testify at this Thursday’s hearing - PPACA Implementation: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? For months, administration officials and contractors alike assured...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that August John Stile, Jr., age 49, of Hughestown, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to the defrauding investors of approximately $310,000 before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Mark Anthony Slade, 55, of Lafayette, was sentenced Oct. 18, 2013 to 60 months in prison and 10 years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth E. Foote for knowingly receiving child pornography on his computer. He is also required to register as a sex offender. Slade pleaded guilty on April 17, 2013.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced that it has invited several of the health care law’s top contractors to testify at this Thursday’s hearing - PPACA Implementation: Didn’t Know or Didn’t Disclose? For months, administration officials and contractors alike assured...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Amanda Marshall, U. S. Attorney for the District of Oregon, today announced the arrest of Beaverton resident, Brian J. Brown, 56, former president of National Relief Charities, and the unsealing of an indictment charging Brown with conspiring to defraud National Relief Charities of $4...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Levette J. Douglas, 35, of Toledo, Ohio, pled guilty today to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud for her role in a scheme that defrauded the U.S. Postal Service out of over $164,000 through the submission of false insurance claims.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be observing Veterans Day weekend from Saturday, November 9, to Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Superintendent Niki Stephanie Nicholas has authorized free camping at Alum Ford Campground and free backcountry permits for these dates. On Veterans Day, or...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) Columbia District Office is partnering with national, state, local, and tribal law enforcement officials, as well as community coalition groups, to hold a seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. This one day event will make it convenient for the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- ARPA-E Deputy Director Cheryl Martin today announced $27 million in funding from the Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for 14 projects aimed at developing next-generation power conversion devices that could dramatically transform how power is controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Louisville Man has pleaded guilty to violating federal child exploitation laws, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky. Marvin Duane Monk, age 46, entered the guilty pleas before Senior U. S. District Judge Charles R. Simpson, III, in federal court in Louisville, on Sept. 27, 2013. Sentencing in the matter is scheduled before Judge Simpson on Jan. 14, 2014, at 2:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: On Oct. 17, 2013, Michael A. Lovell, 35, of Shawneetown, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a three-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, possession of methamphetamine-making materials, and being a felon in possession of ammunition, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: OCT 21 - LOS ANGELES - The one-time top leader of the Avenues gang in northwest Los Angeles and the lead defendant in a federal racketeering indictment who admitted murdering a rival gang member and ordered the killing of one of his underlings was sentenced this morning to 25 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Four-time convicted felon Aurelio Perez-Aleman, of Roma, has been ordered to prison for possessing a firearm, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. Perez-Aleman, 37, pleaded guilty May 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Stephen Francis Bukucs, 39, a resident of Northeast Portland, was arrested in Portland on Friday evening, Oct. 18, 2013, on charges of aiming a laser pointer at two aircraft. A federal indictment, unsealed this morning by the court, alleges Bukucs aimed a laser pointer at United Airlines Flight 1406 and JetBlue Flight 1205 in Portland on Oct. 13, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: Zion National Park will begin construction of a new river irrigation system on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2013. During the first phase, which is expected to be completed in April 2014, a half-mile section of the Pa’rus Trail will be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bernard Chung, 31, of Falls Church, Va., pled guilty on Oct. 7, 2013 to a federal wire fraud charge stemming from his embezzlement of more than $400,000 from the law firm where he worked as an office manager, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 21, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Oscar Gaxiloa-Vicencio, Rafael Verduzco-Perez, Jesus Campos-Zaragoza, and Jorge Gonzalez-Herrera, made their initial appearances on Oct. 16, 2013, in U.S. District Court following law enforcement action on Tuesday Oct. 15, 2013, for various narcotics charges, announced United States Attorney...
