News from August 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Janet Wheeler, age 48, of Cordova, Tennessee, pleaded guilty yesterday to a criminal information charging her with theft of government funds, announced Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The bipartisan Autism CARES Act and Improving Trauma Care Act of 2014 will be the 15th and 16th HELP Committee bills to become law this Congress, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Committee, announced today. The Senate cleared the measures last night and both bills were recently passed by the House of Representatives.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Three public health bills championed by the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health are now on their way to the president’s desk to become law. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented, “The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, under the leadership of Chairman Pitts, has...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: PHEONIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced that on July 31, 2014, John Cary Dean, 28, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayesto 6.5 years in prison. Dean pleaded guilty on Jan. 23, 2014 to two counts of possession with intent to distribute less than 50 kilograms of marijuana, one count of manufacturing marijuana, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking offenses, all felonies.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Crash-test dummies, yarn-spinning machines and steel girders in bridges. What do they have in common? Look inside them all and you find transducers, devices that measure the forces that push, pull, weigh upon and slam into them. But transducers also have something in common: Until recently, it was difficult to calibrate them in all but the simplest sense. Now, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are changing that.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 55, 964 visitors to Horseshoe Bend.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Emell Meda Meda (45, Jacksonville) yesterday pleaded guilty to failure to file federal tax returns or pay federal taxes for two years. He faces a maximum penalty of one year in federal prison for each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Meda was indicted on June 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that FRANK PERKINS HIXON, JR., a former Senior Managing Director of Evercore Group, LLC, a subsidiary of Evercore Partners Inc. (“Evercore"), was sentenced today to 30 months’ imprisonment for insider trading and...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park biologists and park managers implore ALL visitors to be more vigilant and responsible about food storage at all park locations, especially at the popular beach areas along String Lake and Jenny Lake, as well as Jackson Lake near the Signal Mountain and Colter Bay campgrounds.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Regional Conservation Partnership Program has Generated Almost 600 Proposals from Nearly 5,000 Partnered Organizations in Initial Call for Funding
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Melrose man was arrested and charged today in federal court with two counts of impersonating a federal agent.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The National Park Service invites the public to the 21st annual Native American Heritage Days on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Join Craters of the Moon staff and friends for the first annual Run the Rift Fun Run and other special events on Wild Saturday, September 27. A 5K and 10K run/walk will start at 8 a.m., followed by a wilderness puppet show, a trail exhibit dedication, and a wilderness film festival.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RICHARD DAVIS, also known as “Quan Bezel," 20, of New Haven, pleaded guilty on Wednesday, July 30, before Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to one count of possession of ammunition by a previously convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Patchogue, New York - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 294,219 visitors to Fire Island National Seashore in 2013 spent almost $12 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 127 jobs in the area.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced today that Lacey Rae Moore pleaded guilty to starting the fire that resulted in the complete destruction of the North Building of the Forest Place Apartments on University Avenue in Little Rock. Moore entered her guilty pleas to two counts of arson before United States District Judge J. Leon Holmes.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Grundy County gun dealer was indicted on federal firearms charges alleging that he illegally sold 11 firearms from either his store or his residence to an undercover law enforcement officer posing as a felon, as well as to a convicted felon who was cooperating with law enforcement, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Jason Wade Crawford, 36, has been ordered to federal prison for his convictions of bank fraud, access device fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He pleaded guilty May 6, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Following the dramatic overcrowding and deaths of August 1864, September brought dramatic change swiftly to prisoners held at Andersonville. Following the occupation of Atlanta by U.S. forces under General Sherman on Sept. 2, five days later the Confederacy began evacuating...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Jose O. Jimenez, of Palisade, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 210 months (over 17 years) in federal prison for attempted armed bank robbery, United States Attorney John Walsh and FBI Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Thomas Ravenelle...
