News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Orlando, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Warren Scott Kennell (45, West Milford, New Jersey) today pleaded guilty to two counts of production of child pornography. Kennell faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years, up to a maximum of 30 years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park, in partnership with Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration inspectors and the Wyoming Highway Patrol Commercial Carrier group, conducted multiple commercial vehicle safety inspections over several weeks this past summer. The inspections focused on commercial buses and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SHANE LEVERETTE, also known as Shane Baltas, 44, formerly of Meriden, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 126 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a previous federal conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: “Marine debris plagues coastlines all over the country, and these communities have the expertise and motivation to address it," said Nancy Wallace, Marine Debris Program director. “We are proud to support them as they work to mitigate impacts and address the damage marine debris has caused."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Two patient recruiters of a Miami health care company pleaded guilty late yesterday for their participation in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: The public is invited to join park rangers and volunteers for special programs to celebrate SwampFest at Congaree National Park on October 5. SwampFest is a local heritage tourism event, which will take place October 4-5 in Lower Richland County. All park programs are free and begin at the Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: Francesco Gulino was arrested in April in Raleigh Co. for possessing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who took pornographic photographs of a seven-year-old relative and posted them on an Internet file sharing site, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison and lifetime supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN.-- A Kansas man who pleaded guilty to an Internet sex crime that took place while he was in the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program at Larned State Hospital has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
Release: Washington, DC, September 4, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement on the release of the USDA Economic Research Service analysis Household Food Security in the United States in 2012.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: As the summer season wraps up in Rocky Mountain National Park, numerous projects are nearing completion.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: At 5:00 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 2, park rangers were notified of a serious fall in Behunin Canyon, a difficult, nine hour canyoneering route above the Emerald Pools. Three park medics reached the visitor a little after midnight at the bottom of the 5th of Behunin Canyon's nine rappels.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today, Annette Rider, 45, of Rutland, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment on her guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute heroin and crack cocaine. United States District Judge J. Garvan Murtha also ordered Rider to serve three years supervised release after her incarceration ends.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Edison, N.J., man who once worked as a school crossing guard admitted today to taking compromising photographs of a naked child and distributing them and hundreds of other photographs of child sexual abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., September 4, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today issued to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for documents they have failed to produce as part of the Committee’s oversight into the Obama Administration’s decision to retroactively subject 2012 Secure Rural School (SRS) payments to the fiscal year 2013 sequester.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Building on President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to build a 21st century transportation sector and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the Energy Department announced today more than $45 million for thirty-eight new projects that accelerate the research and development of vehicle technologies to improve fuel efficiency, lower transportation costs and protect the environment in communities nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - Loyal Dean Williams, 38, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court to 70 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Williams to serve four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 66-year-old man from Cheboygan, Michigan, pleaded guilty to robbing the U.S. Bank in Stillwater. David Michael Tyler specifically pleaded guilty to one count of armed bank robbery. Tyler, who was indicted on July 8, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Chief Judge Michael J. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: To Date, 15 Individuals Have Pleaded Guilty in Ongoing Corruption Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2013
News Release: These projects further NOAA’s commitment to create a Weather-Ready Nation, in which the country is able to prepare for and respond to environmental events that affect safety, health, the environment, the economy, and homeland security.
