News from October 2013
By State Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - The following letter was sent to Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel from Catherine Bertini, former Executive Director of the UN World Food Program on food aid reform. Below Ms. Bertini's letter is a letter signed by prominent experts in the field.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Martin Moreno, 53, of Farmington, N.M., was sentenced today to 15 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on drug trafficking and firearms charges. Moreno also was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), and House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), released a discussion draft outline to permanently fix the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA, GA - Southeast Regional Director Stan Austin announces the selection of Mary Risser, a 32-year career employee of the National Park Service (NPS), to serve as superintendent of Natchez Trace Parkway, a 444-mile long scenic byway crossing three states and headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VASILIKI PAPADAKOS, 61, of Danbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, and Gabriel “Gabe" Grchan, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, New Orleans Field Office, announce that.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced HARRY DEAN CANADY, 63, of Lumberton, North Carolinato a total of 72 months imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release. The Court also ordered CANADY to pay restitution in the amount of $1,036,516.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - Kayci Cook Collins, Superintendent of the Flagstaff National Monuments - Wupatki, Sunset Crater Volcano, and Walnut Canyon National Monument announces that visitor center hours will shift towinter hours starting Nov. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio -A Columbus man was sentenced Thursday to 135 months in federal prison for his role as a supplier in a large-scale drug-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracy that was targeted and dismantled by the Central Ohio HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Sunday's Last Night for Washington Monument Scaffold Lighting.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in living history programs, guided tours, and special presentations associated with the 150th anniversary of the Battles for Chattanooga. Multiple programs, at varying times, will be conducted November 22-25 in and around the city of Chattanooga, with a final program on November 27 in Ringgold, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Randolph St. Gourdin (38, Palm Bay) guilty of receiving child pornography. St. Gourdin faces a minimum penalty of five years, up to a maximum of twenty years in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 17, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough and Joseph M. Arabit, Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s El Paso Division, announced the indictment of 18 individuals who allegedly participated in a tri-state drug trafficking organization that obtained methamphetamine from Arizona and Texas and distributed the drugs in Otero and Doña Ana Counties, N.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Second Degree Burglary was sentenced on Oct. 28, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed three members and four alternates to the Hass Avocado Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Daniel V. Garcia, Chief, Phoenix Police Department, and Michelle Morris, Chief, Sebastian Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Pelly Lee Mason, age 51, faces not less than thirty years and up to life in federal prison after pleading guilty to transporting a minor across state lines with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Good afternoon. I’m Michael Moore, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. This afternoon I want to make a few remarks concerning the investigation into the death of.
By State Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following remarks at this morning’s hearing about the state of affairs in Syria.
