News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Western District of Louisiana. Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that John B. Sommers, 28, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to access device fraud...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, S.D. - Wind Cave National Park is seeking comments on a proposal that would raise cave tour and camping fees beginning next spring. Fees for the Fairground, Natural Entrance, and Candlelight Tours would increase from $9 to $12 for adults. Garden of Eden fees would increase from...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, today announced that the Alaska Energy Authority (AEA) has been awarded U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) funding to promote the development of rural wood-to-energy projects.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 26-year-old St. Paul felon was sentenced for possessing a.22-caliber revolver. United States District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz sentenced Christopher Lee Rousseau to 180 months in prison on one count of being an armed career criminal in possession of a firearm. Rousseau was indicted on Jan. 15, 2013, and pleaded guilty on May 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with Intent to Commit Murder was sentenced on September 9, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE - A Honduran citizen was sentenced to more than 19 years in federal prison for conspiring to transport and entice females to travel interstate for prostitution and sex trafficking by force and fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Gary Darrell Mabry, 34, of Baltimore, Md., was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for failing to register as a sex offender at a time when he was working at three churches in the District of Columbia, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Michael Hughes, U.S. Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that TITUS NICKENS, age 30, of Syracuse, pled guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to an indictment which charged him and ten others with conspiring to exploit their membership in the V-NOT Gang to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Eric Gomez, aka Valla, 37, of San Antonio, a general in the Texas Mexican Mafia Prison Gang, has entered a plea of guilty to his role in the distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Distribution of Child Pornography was sentenced on September 9, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wisconsin man has pleaded guilty to taking part in a cyber-attack on Koch Industries in Wichita sponsored by a group known as Anonymous, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 44-year-old Chinese national living in Plano, Texas has been sentenced for customs violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Two North Texas men have pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement that it has conditionally authorized Dominion’s Cove Point Terminal to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its review of the nation’s satellite television law with a hearing focused on the role of innovation and regulation in the video marketplace. The subcommittee...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its review of the nation’s satellite television law with a hearing focused on the role of innovation and regulation in the video marketplace. The subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Department of Energy’s announcement that it has conditionally authorized Dominion’s Cove Point Terminal to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries that do not have a Free Trade Agreement.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Three scientists have earned places in the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame for discoveries that have improved the environment, deepened the understanding of plant biology, and improved the quality of grapes and other fruits. ARS is the chief intramural scientific research agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter is calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to rethink their recent tentatively-selected plan for the West Shore Hurricane Protection Project. On Aug. 23, the Corps announced their "tentatively selected plan," but the alignment they chose protects fewer parishes than a separate alignment that is preferred by local officials.
