News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: KEY WEST, Florida - A new National Park Service report shows that over two and a half million visitors to the national parks in South Florida, spent $206 million last year in surrounding communities. That spending supported over 2,700 jobs in South Florida. In Dry Tortugas National Park 58,400 visitors spent over $3.4 million and supported 35 jobs in surrounding communities.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Ways and Means Committee passed by voice vote a bill that would provide nearly $11 billion for highway funding - allowing projects to move forward through May 31, 2015. Legislation that will be considered by the Senate Finance Committee this afternoon would provide a nearly identical amount of funding.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 733,539 visitors to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (NHS) in 2013 spent $40.4 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 610 jobs in the local area. These numbers are all increases over those reported in 2012.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew, Kerry, Pritzker, and Ambassador Froman...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: ALAMOGORDO, NEW MEXICO -. A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 490,000 visitors in 2013 to White Sands NM spent $24.5 million in communities near the monument. That spending supported 307 jobs in the local area. "White Sands is proud to welcome visitors from across the country and around...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Matthew D. King, 31, of Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty to online enticement of a minor before U.S. District Court Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison with a mandatory minimum period of 120 months in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Allen Harragarra, 34, a member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Yah-Ta-Hay, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with voluntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester woman pleaded guilty today to stealing almost $350,000 in government benefits to which she was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore today sentenced North Port residents James Dee Jaeger (62) and Lora Anne Jaeger (50) to 18 months each in federal prison. The Jaegers both pleaded guilty on April 21, 2014 to one count of filing a false tax refund claim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Abdo Mohamed Nagi, age 54, a citizen of Yemen residing in Baltimore, pleaded guilty on July 21, 2014, to two counts of food stamp fraud and six counts of wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. Nagi admitted that he obtained more than $1.2 million from the food stamp program, to which he was not entitled. Nagi entered his guilty plea on the first day of his trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Admitted sexual contact with prepubescent minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, today announced that a federal information has been filed charging David S. Owens aka D. Scott Owens, age 62, of Columbus, Ohio, with one count of failure to account for an pay over employment tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County businessman has pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a series of fraud schemes that include one in which he worked with his criminal defense attorney to fraudulently apply for millions of dollars in loans backed by the Small Business Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Raul Valencia-Hernandez, 51, of Palmdale, California, was sentenced today to 20 months in prison for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Valencia-Hernandez to forfeit the firearm involved in the offense. Valencia-Hernandez pleaded guilty to the charge on May 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Isaac Kash Kash, 26, of Lapwai, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in federal court to one count of theft of government property, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today said the Finance Committee must take decisive action to end corporate inversions - the practice of U.S. companies moving their headquarters abroad in pursuit of lower tax rates. Wyden also said inversions represent a clear sign that the U.S. tax code needs comprehensive reform to keep America competitive and create good-paying jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Defendant Provided Prescriptions For Oxycodone Without A Legitimate Medical Purpose And For Sale.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the terrorist advance in Iraq, led by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and the U.S. response: The hearing, entitled “Terrorist March in Iraq: The U.S. Response " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Jamal Charles, 19, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with the attempted armed robbery of a check cashing business, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Charles walked in to the ACE Cash Express, on Germantown Avenue in Philadelphia, on May...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit’s ruling upholding a challenge to Obamacare health insurance subsidies being granted through the federal exchange...
