News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Grand Teton National Park and Teton County entered into an agreement this week and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to provide regular grooming for Nordic and skate skiing along the Teton Park Road in partnership with the Grand Teton National Park Foundation. As an extension of community grooming...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Robert L. Barcliff, 29, of Wytheville, Virginia, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to home invasion armed robbery. On April 22, 2012, Barcliff, Keith Glenn, Robert Jared Smith, and William Seltzer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John C. Creighton, 57, of Bemus Point, N.Y., who was convicted of failing to pay payroll taxes, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to the IRS totaling $663,627, by Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In a floor speech today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, said that the President’s announcement in last night’s State of the Union that he would sign an executive order to raise the minimum wage for new federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: (BALTIMORE) - - The national touring exhibit developed by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the DEA Educational Foundation, Target America: Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause opens Feb. 11, 2014 at the Maryland Science Center at Baltimore's Inner Harbor. In this interactive exploration of the effects...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO -Tyler Zane Clem, 21, of North Little Rock, Arkansas, pleaded guilty today to failing to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Clem was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Pocatello on Aug. 28, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA B On Jan. 28, 2014, an indictment charging Robert L. Budd, Jr. (Budd), formerly of Brown Traffic Products, Inc. (Brown Traffic) of Davenport, Iowa, and Robert W. Webster (Webster), a former city electrician for the city of Bettendorf, Iowa, was unsealed, announced United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS -- Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Ronald Reed, age 46, has been charged with conspiring to commit health care fraud in a scheme that involved the sale of electric wheelchairs and scooters and the potential loss of hundreds of thousands in taxpayer dollars. This comes as Hogsett’s office has continued an effort to crack down on white collar fraud in Indiana’s business community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Arriyon Meeks-Ortiz, 33, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to possession of an unregistered firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALISHA FRASER, 27, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: “True and effective reform of the Seattle Police Department will require steady work and strong leadership. Today Mayor Murray continued to show such leadership, making structural changes to ensure compliance and reform efforts are unified and come from the top. We have met with Interim Chief Harry Bailey...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that American Seed Producers, Tangent, Ore., has paid $900 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), a member of the HELP Committee, today applauded unanimous Senate passage of a bipartisan bill that would make it easier for charities and cooperatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the appointment of the following eight U.S. Attorneys to serve two-year terms on the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC): André Birotte Jr., Central District of California; Thomas E. Delahanty II, District of Maine; Zachary T. Fardon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - JAMES LEE LOMAN, 71, of McLoud, Oklahoma, a former Item Manager at Tinker Air Force Base, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud, accepting bribes, and participating in government contracting under an illegal conflict of interest, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Melvin Medina, 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Conspiracy, was sentenced to 78 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Court Judge James M. Munley sentenced Kirk Robinson, age 45, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to 18 years’ imprisonment for his involvement in two Luzerne County jewelry store robberies, a bank robbery, as well as an insurance fraud scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: The Agricultural Act of 2014. American Farm Bureau Federation. National Farmers Union. Union of Concerned Scientists. Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Ducks Unlimited. National Rifle Association. National Wildlife Federation. Specialty Crop Farm Bill Alliance. Humane Society of the United States ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
Release: Ranking Member Peterson spoke support of H.R. 2642, The Agricultural Act of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 29, 2014
News Release: Concord, NH -Nutveena Sirirojnananont plead guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to federal gun trafficking/export violations that include conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act (AECA), making a false statement in connection with a firearm purchase, and unlicensed firearms dealing, announced United States Attorney, John P. Kacavas.
