News published on Federal Newswire in September 2013

News from September 2013


News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.


Attorney General's Native American Issues Subcommittee to Meet in Oregon

News Release: VAWA 2013 Implementation, Offender Re-entry, White Collar Crime, Juvenile Justice among Agenda Items.


Week In Review – South Bend

News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.


CNRA Initial Scoping Letter

News Release: Initial Scoping for an Environmental Assessment for the Construction of a Pedestrian Bridge and Trail System at Chickasaw National Recreation Area.


Seven East Tennessee Residents Sentenced To A Total Of 603 Months In Prison For Methamphetamine Conspiracy Operating In Washington County

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013, the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, sentenced the last of seven defendants for their roles in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy. The individuals were indicted in March 2013 for conspiring to manufacture methamphetamine (meth).


District Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison For Confrontation Ending With Slaying Of 22-Year-Old Stepson-Shooting Followed Argument In Family’s Northeast Washington Home-

News Release: WASHINGTON - Ronald Page, 61, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder while armed and other charges in a confrontation that ended with the slaying of his adult stepson, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


Investigation Leads to Citations for Hunting Violations

News Release: Grand Teton National Park rangers issued a citation and a separate warning to an elk hunter after an investigation into concerns that he may have killed a bull elk inside the park's boundary. Randall Arrotta, age 52, of Green Acres, Washington was cited for one violation of 36 CFR§ 2.4 (a)(1)(ii) prohibited...


News Release: Defendant Pleads Guilty To Using Manhattan-Based Investment Advisory Firm To Steal Over One Million Dollars Of Clients’ Money And Lying To The SEC.


Local Volunteers Open Gooseneck Campground

News Release: VAN BUREN MO: Beginning on March 1, 2013, Federal law required Ozark National Scenic.


Armed Drug Dealer Sentenced In Federal Court

News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Bruce Edward McDonald, 49, of Mt. Vernon, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court today on charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute crack cocaine, possession of a List I chemical with knowledge it would be used to manufacture a controlled substance, and using, carrying, and possessing a firearm in furtherance of and during and in relation to a drug trafficking felony.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) on Tuesday will address the American Enterprise Institute’s new Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy during an event entitled, “Broadband, economic growth, and the implications...


News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Norman Leroy Bogart, 51, of Kingston, Idaho, was sentenced in federal court yesterday to three years of probation for illegally cutting timber on national forest lands, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Robert H. Whaley also ordered Bogart to pay $1,700 in restitution. He pleaded guilty to one felony count of willful injury or depredation of property of the United States on June 24, 2013.


Informational: Federal Court Arraignment

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on Sept. 12, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individual was arraigned.


Leading Member of Drug and Weapons Trafficking Ring Sentenced to 20 Year Prison Term

News Release: Defendant With Cartel Ties Sought To Smuggle Guns Into Mexico.


Chairman Menendez Denounces Attack on Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan

News Release: Newark, NJ - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued this statement following the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Herat, Afghanistan.


Shuster to Host Twitter Townhall on Water Resources Reform Legislation and Why WRRDA Matters for Jobs, Trade, and Competitiveness

News Release: On Tuesday, September 17th at 4:30 p.m., Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) will answer questions on Twitter about the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA), water resources reform legislation that cuts federal red tape and bureaucracy, streamlines...


Whitfield: Attorneys General Confirm Overreach by Obama’s EPA on Coal-Fired Power Plant Regulations

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today released a white paper report by the Attorneys General from seventeen states and one senior environmental regulator relating to the Environmental Protection Agency ‘s (EPA) planned...


News Release: WASHINGTON - Decordre Franklin, 25, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 15 years in prison on a charge stemming from a fatal shooting that took place earlier this year in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.


Defendant Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy To File False Federal Tax Returns And Identity Theft

News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Edna Yvonne Orr Goff, 37, of Thomaston, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty on Sept. 12, 2013, to conspiracy to file false federal tax returns and aggravated identity theft before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge.


Lancaster Man Sentenced For Running Armed Drug Organization

News Release: ALLENTOWN - Keith Martin Thompson, 33, of Lancaster, PA, was sentenced today to 270 months in prison in a drug conspiracy case. Thompson, a/k/a “Keefer," was the leader of a large-scale cocaine and crack cocaine distribution organization in Lancaster from between at least 2005 and his arrest in January of 2011 on local charges. In addition to the prison term, Thompson must pay a fine of $2,400, a special assessment of $1,400, and complete 10 years of supervised release.