News from January 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management plans to continue burning slash piles on BLM lands within the Royal Gorge Field Office as weather and snow conditions allow.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today signaled the need for further review of two nominees to lead the Interior Department. Murkowski said specifically wanted to hear from nominees Rhea Suh and Janice Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT/LAFAYETTE/ALEXANDRIA/LAKE CHARLES/MONROE, La.: United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley joins other federal law enforcement agencies to raise awareness about a growing problem of identity theft as it relates to tax refund fraud. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has named this week “Tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Mitchell, 21, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with committing three bank robberies in a two month period of time. Bank robbery is punishable by a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement today at a committee hearing examining the role trade negotiating authority plays in advancing international trade...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: On January 9, 2014, Charles W. Scallion, 41, of Carbondale, Ill., was sentenced in United States District Court in Benton on a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), George Longworth, the Commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Public Safety (“WCDPS")...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Washington - Various efforts to protect natural resources in and around national parks have been recognized by the Department of the Interior with Partners in Conservation and Environmental Achievement awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury in Pittsburgh indicted 13 individuals in four separate, but related, indictments resulting from a multi-agency wiretap investigation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today. All of the indictments were returned on Jan. 14 and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor, Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child, Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, and Abusive Sexual Contact While Registered as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Jan. 14, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Latoya Renae Bonds, 30 of McComb, pled guilty on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, to possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack"), announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. She will be sentenced on April 25, 2014 and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000.00 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Mid-South Produce Co. Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: American workers pay for Social Security, contributing money with every paycheck. Over Social Security’s lifetime, American workers have contributed 14.6 trillion dollars to Social Security. The Social Security Trust Fund currently has a 2.7 trillion dollar surplus.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Thomas Edison once said, “We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work.".
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: Junior Rangers, Explore Your Winter World!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man was sentenced today for illegally reentering the United States for the third time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today that the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (OFAC) reported the designation of Jose Guadalupe Tapia Quintero, a Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico based senior lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel. Jose Guadalupe...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Cape Cod man was charged today with defrauding three people out of $800,000 as part of a long-term investment scam.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Prince Lee, 21, of New York, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, for conspiracy to transport persons for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted Christopher Nixon, 21, of Quitman, La., Wednesday for production of child pornography.
