News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Elanda Bell has pled guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal firearm laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Effective Thursday, May 1, the Gila District of the Bureau of Land Management, all districts of Coronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK and was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison and VADIM TRINCHER was also sentenced today to five years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Prosecution represents more results in U.S. Attorney’s ongoing "Operation Community Watch".
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) and Related Agencies joined in approval of the FY2015 CJS Appropriations Bill, praising the bipartisan nature in the subcommittee’s work and highlighting several of his own priorities.
By State Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the lead Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following statement regarding the national elections in Iraq...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Researchers estimate that the percentage of pteropods in this region with dissolving shells due to ocean acidification has doubled in the nearshore habitat since the pre-industrial era and is on track to triple by 2050 when coastal waters become 70 percent more corrosive than in the pre-industrial era due to human-caused ocean acidification.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that HILLEL NAHMAD, a/k/a “Helly," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to one year and one day in connection with his leadership role in the operation of a high-stakes illegal sports gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Heriberto Gomez, Jr., age 32, and Adrian Pisares-Valenzuela, age 25, both of Omaha, Nebraska, were sentenced for conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. Gomez was also sentenced for money laundering. Sentencing...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate author of the Americans with Disabilities Act, today submitted testimony to the New York City Taxicab and Limousine Commission in support of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to improve accessibility for New York City taxicabs. Mayor de Blasio’s plan will make 50 percent of taxis accessible to people with disabilities by 2020.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) responded to four bills that would add layers of bureaucracy, waste limited agency resources, and divert efforts to recover species under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: FAIRBANKS - The Bureau of Land Management is looking to host an artist for two weeks in the Yukon River community of Eagle, Alaska, as part of its new Artist-in-Residence program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Doree McGee, 39, of Los Angeles, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of two years in prison, a maximum of 32 years, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An Indianapolis man is facing federal narcotic charges in connection with the seizure of more than 2,000 pounds of marijuana. Earlier today, Martin Gonzalez-Medina, 50, of Indianapolis, was charged in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court with possession with intent to...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison for mailing more than 90 threatening and/or harassing letters to Chicago police officers, other government and law enforcement officials, private individuals, schools, and religious institutions in the Chicago area between November 2003 and December 2012. The defendant, RICHARD HYERCZYK, had pleaded guilty in January to one count of mailing a threatening communication.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble reminds park visitors that night beach driving restrictions for Off-Road Vehicle (ORV) use on Seashore ocean beaches go into effect Thursday, May 1, 2014 at 9:00 p.m.From May 1 - Sept. 14, ORV routes on ocean beaches are closed to ORVs from 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. during...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: On Thursday, May 1, 2014 House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) will deliver remarks on multiemployer pension reform at an event hosted by Bloomberg Government and sponsored by the Quality Construction Alliance.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Westmoreland County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today pressed U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell on his failure to increase the amount of timber cut annually in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
