News from February 2014
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. A new Prairie Dog Management Plan at Devils Tower National Monument is in effect after a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Prairie Dog Management Plan Environment Assessment (EA) was finalized. This plan outlines an adaptive management strategy for the management of black-tailed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Kimberly Marie Isabell, 33, of Gulfport, was sentenced today by U. S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to three years on probation and six months home confinement with electronic monitoring for mail fraud in connection with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced. Isabell was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $17.000.00.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-DE) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-OK), Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Subcommittee on Financial Contracting and Oversight Chairman Claire McCaskill (D-MO), and Ranking Member Ron Johnson (R-WI) released a report that found vulnerabilities in the intelligence community’s inventory of its core contractor personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A pain management doctor with a practice based in Red Bank, N.J., admitted today that he embezzled more than $1.1 million from a medical practice, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - On Sunday, March 9, from 10 am until 12 pm, Biscayne National Parkand the Tropical Audubon Society are presenting a free Junior Birder event. Participants may field-sketch birds, use binoculars and field guides with Tropical Audubon Society volunteers, and learn how to identify birds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEROME R. THOMAS, 21, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Christopher Mitchell, 45, of St. Croix was arrested today by the United States Marshals Service after being indicted by a federal grand jury for failing to register as a sex offender announced United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe. Mitchell appeared today in United States District Court in St. Croix before U.S. Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon and was released on conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS - Federal and local law enforcement agencies have established a tip line as a way to encourage people to call with information on 15 homicides that...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: ADVANCE PAY SCHEME BILKED ENTREPRENEURS OF MILLIONS.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) signed an agreement with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that designates USDA as the authority to certify animal feed and pet food products for export to foreign countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Carl Skow, who attempted to purchase a fourteen year old girl from an undercover federal agent, has been sentenced to ten years in federal prison for enticing a child to engage in illegal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: ANNISTON -- A former Birmingham attorney pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges connected with a securities fraud scheme involving the fraudulent taking of more than $2.8 million dollars in investment funds, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and Alabama Securities Commission Director Joseph Borg.
By State Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Bogota, Colombia - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released this statement regarding the unrest in Ukraine:
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Larry Fuentes, 33, of Beaverton, Oregon, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez to 70 months in prison for the crime of money laundering. He was also ordered to pay $48,243 to the government in the form of a money judgment. Fuentes pleaded guilty to the crime...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Henderson, Nev. man has been indicted by the federal grand jury for aiming a laser pointer at a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) helicopter on six occasions during January and February 2014, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California Lawyer magazine has named four attorneys in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California to receive its California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The attorneys being honored are: Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Kimberly Gregory, 54, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to twenty months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID HANEY, 52, of Marlborough, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that John Wayne Taylor, Jr., 37, of Scarbro, West Virginia, was sentenced in federal court in Charleston today to two years and nine months in federal prison for distributing cocaine. Taylor previously pled guilty in November of 2013...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: While pursuing the goal of turning a cloud of ultracold atoms into a completely new kind of circuit element, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated* that such a cloud-known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)-can display a sort of "memory."
