News from April 2014
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Beginning May 1, Acadia National Park will open the Sand Beach Entrance Station and other fee collection stations and begin charging for park entrance fee for the 2014 summer season. There will be two significant changes this year to the entrance fee program. The weekly park entrance fee for vehicles...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Mashama Hill, 38, of Niagara Falls, N.Y., who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm, was sentenced to 48 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, along with former Vice President Al Gore and Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI), joined a day-long conference at the University of Hawaii. The conference focuses on finding solutions to Hawaii's most pressing issues, including avoiding the worst impacts of climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Latrobe, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of income tax evasion, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today announced additional support for the Chemical Safety Improvement Act (CSIA), which he coauthored and introduced with the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.). Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) has taken over as the lead democratic Senator working with Vitter to further strengthen and improve the bipartisan legislation to reform the outdated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced up to $10 million in funding to advance the production of advanced biofuels, substitutes for petroleum-based feedstocks, and bioproducts made from renewable, non-food-based biomass, such as agricultural residues and woody biomass. This supports the Department’s efforts to make drop-in biofuels more accessible and affordable, as well as meet the cost target equivalent of $3.00 per gallon of gasoline by 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man was charged today with conspiring to fraudulently issue identification documents and aggravated identify theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Several Ohioans have been found guilty and sentenced to prison for violating federal tax laws over the past few months, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, said Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation’s Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court on Thursday, April 10, 2014, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ARTAVIOUS QUONTA BODDIE, 24, to 235 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release. The Court also imposed restitution in the amount of $666.00.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced that JOHANNA KUHLMANN pled guilty Friday, April 11, 2014, to the felony offense of Theft of Government Property, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 641, before the Hon. David N. Hurd in the United States District Court in Syracuse, New...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Following a one-day trial before District Court Judge Callie V. S. Granade, a jury returned a guilty verdict on April 15, 2014 against Lawrence Perrier for federal firearm and drug trafficking offenses. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Craig J. Schexnaider, of Beaumont, Texas, entered a guilty plea Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Zack Hawthorn to one count of failing to file an income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Marcelo Alvarez, a 55-year-old surveyor and consultant from Eagle Pass, faces up to ten years in federal prison and full restitution to Maverick County after pleading guilty to a bribery charge in connection with an alleged bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Reps. Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), today sent a letter to Jacob Lew, Secretary of the Department of the Treasury. The letter states the Members' concerns regarding the implementation of the Resources and Ecosystem Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act of 2012 (RESTORE Act).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Environmental Assessment for Public Review. Yosemite National Park announces the release of the Ansel Adams Gallery Buildings Rehabilitation Environmental Assessment (EA). The EA will be available for public review and comment from April 16, 2014 to May 16, 2014. The EA addresses the rehabilitation needs...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Daily Fee Will Remain at $3.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FENG LING LIU, VANESSA BANDRICH, and RUI YANG, were found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of one count of conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. LIU, BANDRICH, and YANG, who were initially charged in December 2012, were convicted following a nineteen-day jury trial presided over by U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jessica Bryden, 22, of Greenbush, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute MDPV, a chemical compound commonly referred to as "bath salts" or "monkey dust."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: BOISE B Gerald Edward Massey, 57, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill also sentenced Massey to serve three years of supervised release following his release from prison. Massey pleaded guilty on January 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Steven E. Siff, of Davie, was charged in an information with three counts of failing to file an income tax return, in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7203.
