News from September 2013
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Appearing on Fox News Channel following President Obama’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, urged the Senate to take up and pass the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act (H.R. 850). The legislation would increase...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: CARLSBAD, New Mexico - American Sign Language interpreters will join park rangers in offering a tour of beautiful King's Palace at Carlsbad Caverns National Park on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. English and Spanish interpreters will be available to park visitors during the tour. This is a unique opportunity for anyone who has a hearing loss and communicates by signing.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for his role in an Anchorage and Fairbanks drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jennifer Ford, 28, of Elmira, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy and filing false federal income tax returns, was by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa to five years probation, six months confinement at a community facility, and ordered to pay the Internal Revenue Service $67,926 in restituion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams, Jr. sentenced Jerry Lamont Bush, age 35, of Fort Washington, Maryland, today to 12 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute heroin and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the below statement today after 60 senators sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Lew and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman urging that new rules against currency manipulation be included in the Trans-Pacific Partnership...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: The paper is the first to give comprehensive results of the spill’s effect on deepwater communities at the base of the Gulf’s food chain, in its softbottom muddy habitats, specifically looking at biological composition and chemicals at the same time at the same location.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s speech at the United Nations...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man charged with Mail Fraud was sentenced on Sept. 23, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. today sentenced Maurice J. Larry to 14 ½ years in federal prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges stemming from his scheme to defraud the IRS with co-defendant, Rashia Wilson. The court also ordered Larry to forfeit $2,240,096.39, the traceable proceeds of the offense.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Fire management staff at Point Reyes National Seashore plan to burn 141 acres on N Ranch near Drakes Estero in early October, continuing an invasive plant eradication effort that has been using fire in combination with other techniques since 1993. Burning will take place on a single day during either...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EVERETTE L. SCOTT, JR., a New Jersey attorney, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 30 months in prison for engaging in securities and wire fraud in connection with two separate schemes. In the...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that on Saturday, Sept. 28, 2013, Wright Brothers National Memorial will celebrate National Public Lands Day by offering free admission to park visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas -- Sarah R. Saldaña, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Dan R. Salter, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) Dallas Field Division, and Diego Rodriguez, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI Dallas Division will host a Press Conference TODAY, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013, AT 2:00 P.M. to announce a major law enforcement action in Amarillo.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.’s (FINRA) last week released its first framework for cost-benefit analysis of new regulations, authored by the organization’s new Chief Economist. Both the Office of the Chief Economist, and the newly issued guidance document, were created in response to oversight from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Jerome Clinton Faison, 45, and David Thomas Jr., 49, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged today by indictment with interstate transportation of stolen goods, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that on Dec. 27, 2012, Faison and Thomas unlawfully transported in interstate commerce approximately $100,000 of stolen jewelry from Ogden, Utah to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld the 1999 convictions of former fugitive Sholam Weiss on 78 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen funds, money laundering, and other offenses arising from his participation in a scheme to defraud National Heritage Life Insurance Company ("NHLIC").
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: Agency Affirms Its Continued Commitment To Constitutional Policing.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: The Energy Department announced today that it has received a 2013 Green Power Leadership Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The annual awards recognize the country’s leading green power consumers for their commitment and contribution to helping advance the development of the nation’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2013
News Release: HOUSTON - Mohammad Jamal Rashid, 45, a legal permanent resident from Pakistan residing in Houston, has been arrested following the return of a seven-count indictment involving counterfeit Viagra® and Cialis® products, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Special Agent in Charge Patrick J. Holland of the Food and Drug Administration - Office of Criminal Investigations (FDA-OCI) Kansas City Field Office.
