News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Matthew Sarad, 40, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to securities fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Wendy Annette Moore, age 38, and Christopher Austin Latham, age 51, both of Sullivan’s Island, were sentenced for their roles in a Murder for Hire plot that took place in April 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Washington - U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today appointed three members to the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board of Directors. Members will serve a three-year term of office beginning January 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers voicing strong concerns over the Corps’ settlement this week with Columbia Riverkeeper, a group that for years has sued the federal government and favors removal of Northwest...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2015 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program. The program offers training and collaborative research opportunities to scientists, researchers, and policymakers from 34 eligible countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley and Law Enforcement Community Coordinator (LECC) Mike Campbell, joined City of Lafayette Police Chief Jim Craft, the Lafayette Fire Department, and community leaders on Tuesday, August 5th, for the 31st Annual National Night Out crime and drug prevention event.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: New York-Based Executive Used Bribes And Kickbacks To Induce Aeropostale Executive To Steer Over $350 Million In Business To His Company, In Exchange For 50% Of Profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced today that ROBERT TAYLOR, 35, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to a term of 170 months imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release. In addition to the term of imprisonment, TAYLOR was ordered to pay $65,505.00 in restitution to Capital One Bank.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Get a sneak peek of the park's upcoming 2015 centennial with Rocky Mountain National Park: The First 100 Years by award-winning author Mary Taylor Young. Ms. Young will be speaking at 8:30 p.m., Monday, Aug. 11, in the Moraine Park Campground Amphitheater.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: As part of the Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department today announced up to $18 million for 32 projects that will advance geothermal energy development in the United States. The selected projects target research and development in three technology areas: advancing subsurface...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following news that Walgreens will not pursue a corporate inversion...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Member of Heroin Organization that Operated in Cecil County, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York; Also a Member of a Cocaine Organization That Operated in Delaware and Elsewhere.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 37,830 visitors toSaint-Gaudens National Historic Site in 2013 spent $1.7 millionin communities near the park. That spending supported 28jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Yolando Guerrero, age 59, of Laurel, Maryland today to a year and a day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for theft of government property. Judge Messitte also entered an order that Guerrero pay restitution of $335,197.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - An illegal alien was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with a conspiracy to produce false identification documents.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE - This Saturday (Aug. 9) the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will team up with area weed warriors for the fourth annual Anchorage Weed Smackdown. Join us at Valley of the Moon Park from 10 a.m. till 1 p.m. as we declare war on European bird cherry (Mayday) trees. The event offers food, fun, great prizes and the opportunity to help protect Alaska’s environment.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Smoke from the Deer Head Fire will be visible today over the Rincon Mountains. The lightning caused blaze is being managed for natural resource benefits in the federally designated Wilderness area of the Rincon Mountain District of Saguaro National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Olusegun Abayomi Martins, 36, a Nigerian citizen residing in Houston, has been ordered to federal prison for his convictions of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He pleaded guilty May 13, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today released the following statement on the recently released Government Accountability Office’s report that agencies failed to provide sufficient information to USASpending.gov, which tracks government spending. According to the report, at least 93 percent of federal awards on the website contained information that was inconsistent with agencies’ records.
