News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia, July 23, 2014- It's time for the 2014 Hidden History Photo Contest, where we can reveal the rich cultural heritage of this area through photography. Anyone can capture such stories of the past with a creative eye and a camera, sharing the diverse history preserved in southern...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- There are four National Parks within Northeast Florida. A recent National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2,640,577 people visited these sites during 2013. National Park Service reports that these visitors spent $145 million in the communities near the parks and that spending...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Tom Carper (D-DE) introduced S. 2651, the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General Mandates Revision Act of 2014, which would eliminate excessive, unread and outdated reports mandated by federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 25 indictments charging 27 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - After a three-day trial in District Court in St. Thomas, a federal jury on Wednesday found four men guilty of the armed robbery of Imperial Jewelry Store in St. Thomas, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eddie J. Vallejos, 55, of Roswell, N.M., entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a misdemeanor assault on a federal officer charge.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: “Drop-In Volunteer Program" Provides Hands-on Experience Working in Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Yesterday, Cecil Franklin Speight, also known as Frank Speight, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and securities fraud for engaging in a conspiracy to steal over three million dollars from investors. Speight was the sole owner, officer, and director of International Stock...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee; and Sheriff William Oldham, Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, announced today that on July 15, 2014, Senior United States District Judge Jon Phipps McCalla sentenced Michael A. Patterson, formerly a medical doctor who had an office in Bartlett, Tennessee, to 16 years in federal prison for several violations of the Controlled Substance Act involving prescription narcotics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: - Former pharmacy employee and co-defendants admitted to conspiring with each other to sell and distribute the stolen hydrocodone pills worth $29,808.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed several government accountability provisions, including legislation aimed at improving management of the Senior Executive Service; improving federal officials’ compliance with the Federal Records Act; establishing a regulatory review commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Woman Also Pleads Guilty To Unlawful Manufacture and Possession of a Department of Justice Seal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned an eight-count indictment today against Sergey Shchirskiy, 38, of Carmichael, and Vladislav Atamanyuk, 27, of Rancho Cordova, charging them with conspiracy to defraud the United States and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Washington - Fresh World One Inc., operating in Springfield, Va., has posted a $250,000 cash surety agreement with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Gregory Evans, age 28, of Washington, DC, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former IT specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture was sentenced in federal court today for a scheme to steal $113,000 from three co-workers, one of whom is blind.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following floor statement in opposition to H.R. 3393, the GOP Higher Education Tax Benefits Bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX- On July 23, 2014, Ambrosio Nunez-Lopez, 65, of Mexico, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbellto 10 years in prison. Nunez-Lopez pleaded guilty on March 18, 2014 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Dave Aronberg, State Attorney, Office of the State Attorney for Palm Beach County, Karen Citizen-Wilcox, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Inspector General (USDA-OIG), Donnell Young, Acting...
