News from September 2013
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 12, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for projects in seven states, including Minnesota, to improve electric service for about 7,000 rural customers. Rural Utilities Service Administrator John Padalino made the announcement on the Secretary's behalf during...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Whiskeytown National Recreation Area staff and the Friends of Whiskeytown invite visitors to join us for the 3rd Annual Harvest Festival on Sept. 21, 2013, from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm at the park’s Tower House Historic District. This fun and family-friendly event will feature apple tasting, an apple-themed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Joshua James Martin, age 27, of Bismarck, North Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann on September 9, 2013, and pled guilty to an Amended Superseding Information that charged him with False Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - LARRY BRADSHAW was sentenced to 18 months in prison and ordered to pay $89,245 in restitution for his scheme to defraud a local elderly lady by obtaining a reverse mortgage on her home, then using the money for himself, including the purchase of a car and illegal drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Federal authorities are seeking the public’s help in apprehending a man who was indicted this week on federal charges of illegally possessing pipe bombs that were strewn about residential neighborhoods in Palm Springs last year.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Hagåtña- Teachers across Guam have a new tool to help them engage their students in classroom and place-based learning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TRENT MARTIN, a former research analyst at an international financial services firm, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges arising from his involvement in an insider trading scheme. The scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Kyle Marks, age 29, of Fort Thompson, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on September 9, 2013, and pled guilty to the Indictment that charged him with Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, Sept. 18, he will convene a hearing on accountability within the State Department following the deadly terrorist attacks on the U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya last September 11. Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: A one-count criminal information was filed charging a Salem, Ohio, pharmacist with health care fraud, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three more defendants were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in the sex trafficking of a young woman who was coerced into being a sex slave...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - A federal grand jury in Oakland returned an Indictment on Aug. 15, 2013, charging Kyle Edward Moore, Cortio Detrice Wade, Marcel Devon Bridges, and Derricka Lynn Fluker with conspiracy to commit financial aid fraud and multiple counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Natalie Forbort, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Department of Education, Office of Inspector General’s Western Regional Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael E. Horowitz, Inspector General for the Department of Justice, today announced that a former Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Criminal Investigative Division has been charged with violating...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr., yesterday sentenced Edwin Vidal Torres (31, Deltona) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking offense. Based upon his lengthy criminal history, which included offenses involving violence, firearms, and drug trafficking, Torres was designated a career offender. He pleaded guilty to the charges on June 4, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Due to heavy rains and flooding on the east side of Rocky Mountain National Park, there are numerous road closures in the park. Old Fall River Road is closed at the US 34 junction, Bear Lake Road is closed at the intersection to Moraine Park Visitor Center and Moraine Park Campground Road, Cub Lake/Fern...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 49-year-old Cove, Arkansas man has been sentenced to federal prison for bank robbery in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael J. De Palma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that defendant Maria Garcia, 33, of Okeechobee County, pled guilty today to charges of aiding and assisting the preparation and presentation of false tax returns, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: The director of a Cleveland non-profit organization was sentenced today to a year in prison and ordered to pay more than $237,000 in restitution for withholding taxes from employees but not paying them over to the government, said Steven M. Dettelbach, the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: “The ocean is a fundamental part of the U.S. economy, security, history, and culture," said Daniel J. Basta, director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. “However, the relationship between the conservation and commercial sectors is not well understood or coordinated. We hope this council will help us bridge that divide."
