News from July 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. August 5: Live Webinar on the FORGE Initiative. Webinar Sponsor: Geothermal Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE) Funding Opportunity Announcement Informational Webinar" on Tuesday...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Mr. President, the Internet has been the most significant force driving the growth of our economy over the past 16 years. It is the 21st century’s shipping lane and history’s most powerful communication tool. Part of the reason the Internet has revolutionized American life is that it’s protected from discriminatory taxation, thanks to the Internet Tax Freedom Act, first enacted in 16 years ago.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
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By DOL Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-A new White House Executive Order (EO) to strengthen the federal contracting system by promoting compliance with federal labor law echoes many recommendations from a 2013 report issued by Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, that revealed widespread labor law violations by major government contractors that went unnoticed in the contracting process.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the advancement of two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects that would take greater advantage of the nation’s energy abundance by further expanding U.S. trade in natural gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jose Corona-Mata was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Patricia Margaret Drake (24, Jacksonville) today pleaded guilty to three counts of bank fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison for each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Drake was indicted on May 7, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Staten Island, New York, woman today admitted her role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, in which more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns sought more than $65 million in tax refunds and resulted in losses to the United States of more than $12 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Senate failed to consider the Emergency Supplemental Funding Bill, introduced by Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Chairwoman of the Appropriations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - Christopher Michael Morgan, 41, a resident of Coos County, Oregon, appeared before United States District Court Chief Judge Ann Aiken on July 29, 2014 and pled guilty to being an armed career criminal. Morgan, a felon, admitted possessing a loaded.45 caliber pistol in a woman’s restroom at Mingus Park in Coos Bay, Oregon, at 1:30 am on June 18, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Aaron Thelbit Davis, age 39, of Baltimore today to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank larceny, in connection with a two year scheme to burglarize banks, credit unions and retail stores. Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management conducted the first auction of federal helium here today under the terms of the recently enacted Helium Stewardship Act. A total of 92 MMcf from the Federal Helium Reserve near Amarillo was sold, representing 10 percent of the total volume BLM will make available from the Reserve in Fiscal Year 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez-Covington today sentenced Maximilano Reynoso (39, Winter Haven) to 14 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. Reynoso pleaded guilty on March 4, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- The Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved legislation Wednesday that would take a number of steps to improve the Department of Homeland Security’s chemical security program. The substitute amendment introduced by Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, July 31, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Ronald G. Avers, 68, of Belleville, Illinois, was charged by criminal complaint on July 30, 2014, with seven violations of the Product Packaging Protection Act of 2002, the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former bank branch manager has been sentenced in federal court for stealing more than $316,000 from several elderly customers’ accounts and failing to report the embezzled income on her taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: El Paso resident Don Ray Dorsett, age 28, faces up to five years in federal prison after a jury convicted him of pointing a laser at an aircraft flying overhead announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Twenty Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) participants have been busy most of this summer assisting Buffalo National River staff with numerous projects to help protect and maintain the river and park. The YCC was created in 1970 as a summer work program to introduce young Americans to conservation opportunities...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Shawn Ephisian Taylor of Mobile was recently sentenced following an April 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being an illegal drug user in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Lowell Pimley announced that six applied science projects will receive $448,400 to deliver new capabilities for the Desert and Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. These projects will address priority resource needs identified by Reclamation and partners involved in both Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.
