News from October 2013
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Ajo, Arizona - Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument re-opens to visitors today. Visitors can access public areas, roads, and the visitor center immediately. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Oronda Ligon, 31, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced Oct. 16, 2013 to 108 months in prison for an armed home invasion in which an Upper Darby woman was terrorized. Ligon was convicted in March 2013 of Hobbs Act robbery after breaking into a home with two other men in May of 2011. While...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. White Sands National Monument re-opens to visitors today. The visitor center, bookstore, gift shop, Dunes Drive, trails, and picnic areas are open to the public. White Sands has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations. "We look forward to having...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Today, President Obama announced the nomination of Jeh Johnson to become the next secretary of the Department of Homeland Security following the retirement of Janet Napolitano. Mr. Johnson most recently served as the general counsel for the Department of Defense. After the nomination was announced, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - David Welch, 42, of Bristol, who admitted to a federal court judge that he stole more than a dozen firearms from a Rhode Island residence, was sentenced on Oct. 1, 2013, to 120 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area has re-opened to all recreational and permitted activities today. All trails, the Visitor Center, backcountry roads, campgrounds and other facilities are back in service for public use and enjoyment. The closure of recreational motor boating, sailing, kayaking, paddle boarding and fishing on Whiskeytown Lake is now lifted.Whiskeytown National Recreation Area has been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional Appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh man pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of sex trafficking of a child, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Sondra Wong Nelson, 36, of Philadelphia was charged by Indictment, unsealed Oct. 3, 2013, with one count of theft from a federally funded organization and two counts of falsely altering a postal money order, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, between...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Today, Oct. 17, 2013, NIST resumed normal operations. All contractors/cooperative agreement recipients who perform work on the NIST campus should report to work. If you have any questions, please contact your Contracting Officer/Grants Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DEREK DOHERTY was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $98,835 restitution involving a scheme to defraud clients by taking advance fees for loan audits that he never performed.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Sandy Springs, Ga. - Today park staff will be reopening all picnic areas, boat ramps, restrooms and parking lots along the 48 miles of river that makes up Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - CARLA MATHEWS pled guilty to a charge involving the sex trafficking of two area women by force and intimidation on Thursday, Oct. 10, before United States District Judge Henry Autrey.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Employees with the Bureau of Land Management-Montana/Dakotas today reported to work, earnestly preparing and opening facilities to welcome the public after the 16-day shutdown of the Federal government.“We are all happy to be back working for the American public," said State Director Jamie E. Connell.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - Dr. Hafeez Kahn, a former Rhode Island physician with practices located in Smithfield and East Providence, R.I., will pay the government $1.2 million dollars, twice the amount of money a states he fraudulently billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs, it was announced today by the United States Attorney’s Office, the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG), and the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: A two-count criminal information was filed charging an Ohio man with discharging well drilling waste into Beecher Brook, a tributary of the Chagrin River, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael P. Stephens, Acting Inspector General, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Office of Inspector General, and Drew J. Breakspear, Commissioner, Florida Office of Financial Regulation, announced the sentencing of Patrick...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Bonnie Kathleen Kreamer, a/k/a Bonnie Meehan, age 47, of Riva, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a mortgage fraud scheme which resulted in losses of over $4.8 million.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, Oct. 17, 2013- New River Gorge National River, Gauley River National Recreation Area, and the Bluestone National Scenic River re-open to visitors today. Visitors can access all public areas and facilities including visitor centers, restrooms, river accesses and campgrounds. The three parks have been closed since October 1 due to the lapse in Congressional appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: OCT (INDIANAPOLIS) - Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division, of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Joseph H. Hogsett, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a city-wide operation that dismantled a massive drug trafficking organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a former Anchorage resident was charged by a federal grand jury with 5 counts of wire fraud and 9 counts of money laundering.
