News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: VAWA 2013 Implementation, Offender Re-entry, White Collar Crime, Juvenile Justice among Agenda Items.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: South Bend, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Initial Scoping for an Environmental Assessment for the Construction of a Pedestrian Bridge and Trail System at Chickasaw National Recreation Area.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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).

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: VAN BUREN MO: Beginning on March 1, 2013, Federal law required Ozark National Scenic.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
News Release: Defendant With Cartel Ties Sought To Smuggle Guns Into Mexico.

By State Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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...

By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2013
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.