News from July 2014
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the President’s request for resources to address the influx of migrants from Central America in the Rio Grande Valley...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter urging Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to create critical buffer zones to protect endangered gray wolves in or around our National Parks. In 2011, Congress legislated a U.S. Fish...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) today announced the release of the Draft Visitor Use Management Plan (VUMP) for the Isle au Haut District in Acadia National Park and is now seeking public review and written comments. You may find the Draft VUMP and provide comments at.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew, Kerry, Pritzker, and Ambassador Froman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Butler County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of receipt and possession of materials depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement in response to the President’s $3.8 billion emergency supplemental request to address the increase in Central American Migration along the southern border...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. announced that ANDRE ADDISON, a resident of New Orleans, pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute heroin. On Aug. 2, 2013, ADDISON was one of fifteen defendants charged in a seventeen-count superseding indictment for Violations of the Controlled...
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing tomorrow to examine human rights in Southeast Asia. The hearing, entitled “Spotlighting Human Rights in Southeast Asia, " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two men from Gallup, N.M., pleaded guilty today to federal charges arising out of a scheme to defraud the United States and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) of more than $100,000. The guilty pleas were announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Phyllis Robinson, Special Agent in Charge of Region 6, HUD Office of Inspector General, and Carol K.O. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Carlos A. Cooke, age 38, of High Point, North Carolina, Virginia, was sentenced to 24 years in prison on his guilty plea to conspiring to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Devon Campbell, a/k/a Wilmott Alvin Livingston, a former Jamaican police officer who illegally entered the United States and then became a U.S. citizen and a College Park police officer, was sentenced to ten months in prison for committing immigration fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama’s request for emergency supplemental appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Christopher Mahoney, 30, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, for conspiring to pay bribes to City of Buffalo police officers. The charges carry a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. July 8, 2014 14-044. Al Nash or Dan Hottle. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Registration Open For 12th Biennial Scientific...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that ROBERT A. WILLIAMS (22, of Watertown, NY) entered a guilty plea to the felony offenses of being a convicted felon in possession of firearms and ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Review of CDC Anthrax Lab Incident." Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will be among the witnesses testifying.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - Garrett Vincent Riedesel, 25, of Victoria, has entered a guilty plea to one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding recent events in Israel and the Palestinian territories...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 16, 2014, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Review of CDC Anthrax Lab Incident." Dr. Tom Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), will be among the witnesses testifying.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— On July 5, 2014 the U.S. Secret Service arrested Roman Valerevich Seleznev. A Russian national, Seleznev was indicted in the Western District of Washington in March 2011 for hacking into point of sale systems at retailers throughout the United States between October 2009 and February 2011.
