News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service would like to notify the public of the environmental work in the immediate vicinity of the potable water tank at Devils Postpile National Monument (DEPO) in Madera County, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Samuel R. VanSickle, a/k/a “Donald Blunt," “Jacob Aiken," “Allen Helms," “Paul Walsh," and “William Hall, Attorney," age 49, of Accident, Maryland, and Louis W. Strosnider, III, age 47, of Oakland, Maryland, today on charges related to a $3.7 million bank fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Perfinna King, 34, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Ojo Amarillo, N.M., was sentenced this morning to six years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for using a firearm during a crime of violence. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that ELLIOT PEREZ, 28, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to multiple offenses related to his theft of 111 firearms from the Smith & Wesson manufacturing plant in Springfield, Mass.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing reviewing the status of the Department of Energy’s clean coal programs. The subcommittee questioned DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal Dr. S. Julio Friedmann and DOE Acting...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park Acting Superintendent Kevin Schneider announced today that the Jenny Lake Renewal Plan Environmental Assessment (Jenny Lake Plan/EA) is now available for public review. The Jenny Lake Plan/EA will be open to review for 30 days from February 14 through March 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Concealing Person from Arrest was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that ELLIOT PEREZ, 28, of...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on the Department of Energy’s clean coal programs, DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Clean Coal Dr. S. Julio Friedmann testified that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technologies could drastically...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On February 7, 2014, a twelve-member jury found Michael G. Efthimiatos, age 35, of Danbury, Connecticut guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana. The trial commenced on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Michael Efthimiatos was charged along with his brother, Angelo Efthimiatos, and the jury concluded that Michael Efthimiatos was a member of the conspiracy with his brother.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) released the following joint statement after the Department of Labor announced in a letter to the committee the withdrawal of controversial enforcement guidance affecting family farms...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Chamizal National Memorial Superintendent F. Gus Sanchez is pleased to announce the lineup and other important information for this year's 39th Annual International Siglo de Oro Festival. The Festival's main stage performances will take place Wednesday, February 26th through Sunday, March 2nd, 2014 in the National Memorial's Theater.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing $84,137 by spending his deceased mother’s Social Security benefits.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement regarding the Administration’s release of the National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking. Today’s announcement follows a letter Chairman Royce recently sent to the co-chairs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 10, 2014, Harry Lincoln Garrison, III, a 26 year-old resident of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose to 132 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced today that a federal grand jury returned an eleven-count indictment against Raymond V. Scott (age 39) of Joliet, Illinois, and Tarquin C. Saunders (age 42) of Hillside, Illinois, with conspiracy to use counterfeit...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: It's not quite Star Trek communications-yet. But long-distance communications in space may be easier now that researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have designed a clever detector array that can extract more information than usual from single particles of light.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin confirmed today that former Mingo County Chief Magistrate Dallas Toler was arrested last night for violating the conditions of his release on bond. Toler had been free on bond since he pleaded guilty on Dec. 2, 2013, to procuring a false voter...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on February 6, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris, THOMAS ANDREW QUINTON. was sentenced to a term of 48 months imprisonment, 5 years supervised release, a special assessment of $100.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2014
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues found that when they applied heat and pressure to roasted peanuts, there was a significantly reduced allergic reaction from the proteins in these peanuts.
