News from February 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Western Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison on his conviction of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: To help organizations charged with providing the nation's financial, energy, health care and other critical systems better protect their information and physical assets from cyber attack, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today released a Framework for Improving...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-At a news conference in Washington today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, unveiled the findings of an investigation into the use of seclusion and restraints. Harkin’s investigation found that under current law, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two charges of Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force and two charges of Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: At Least Ten Families Fell Victim To The Scheme, Causing Some To Lose Their Homes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo J. Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Paul Miller...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Ronald W. Reine, 67, Brian R. Reine, 44, Bruce A. Swilley Jr., 27, and Omni Pinnacle, LLC, all of Slidell, Louisiana, were charged in a 13-count federal indictment with various violations of the Lacey Act for importing live white-tailed deer into Mississippi, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Luis Santiago of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a former Kingston resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to distributing heroin and cocaine during a four-year period.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has issued and is seeking public comment on a temporary Reclamation manual release directive and standard, Lease of Power Privilege Processes, Responsibilities, Timelines and Charges (FAC TRMR-61). It supersedes FAC 04-08.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada is extending the deadline for nominations for open positions on its three Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) until March 26. The formal call for nominations published in the Federal Register on February 10.Resource Advisory Councils are citizen-based groups that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Bonesteel, South Dakota, woman convicted of Child Abuse was sentenced on Feb. 11, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 26-year-old New Jersey resident who worked at a GM Foodmart store in Kingston, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute synthetic marijuana before Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment today against Randy L. Thompson, 65, of Anderson, charging him with fraud involving aircraft parts, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Monday, February 17 is President's Day, a federal holiday. Mount Rainier and other national park areas will be celebrating this holiday with a fee free weekend February 15 through February 17. Visitors are invited to come enjoy winter at the park, to ski, snowshoe, snow board, or to have fun on the snowplay runs at Paradise.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park is pleased to announce the beginning of a three year joint project between the park, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO), and the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests that allows school children and the public to follow the migration path of osprey from their breeding grounds to their wintering grounds.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today offered the following statement on the President signing H.R. 2860, Office of Personnel Management Inspector General (OPM IG) Act, into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: Correctional Industries Provides Hundreds of Blankets, Scarves and Bags for Foster Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Harrisburg man described as a danger to the community was sentenced today by a federal judge to a long prison term for conspiracy and distribution of cocaine and crack.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Steven Boffman, 53, of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced to 53 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released new enrollment figures for the federal marketplaces showing that nearly...
