News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Michelle Lee Kern, 36, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $642,625 in restitution for financial advisor fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 30,137 visitors to Women's Rights National Historical Park in 2013 spent over $2.06 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 23jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A jury deliberated for approximately four hours this afternoon before convicting JB Brown, Jr., aka Cocoa, 37, of the 400 block of Circle Drive, St. Anne, Ill., of federal drug trafficking and possession of a firearm by a felon, as announced by Jim Lewis, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will hold a workshop on the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, Oct. 29 and 30, 2014, hosted by the Florida Center for Cybersecurity (FC2) located at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Burlington, Wyoming Man Convicted for Bank Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Thomas W. Stringfellow, 55, of Placerville, pleaded guilty today to two counts of willfully making false tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released the following statement regarding the Senate Finance Committee hearing to consider the nomination of Carolyn Watts Colvin for Social Security Commissioner...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA -- The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded a $1.7 million contract to DSL Builders, LLC of Salem, Oregon to rehabilitate the Visitor Center at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. The contract includes the design and construction of the rehabilitation project, which will reconfigure interior space to allow for accessibility, increase educational opportunities and enhance visitor experience.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: The Finance Committee is here today to consider the nomination of Carolyn Watts Colvin to fill a role of extraordinary importance to millions of Americans: Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Elgin Mining Company of Vancouver, British Columbia, has agreed to settle non-compliance issues, associated with the Clean Water Act, for failure to perform mitigation requirements at former mining sites in Kentucky’s Muhlenberg and Crittenden counties in Kentucky. As a result, Elgin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Jeffrey Chadwick Wright, 25, of Warrenton, NC, pleaded guilty today to travel in furtherance of a criminal activity, namely underage prostitution.
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. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 31, 2014, Stacy Jo Kanallakan, 35, of Jerseyville, Illinois, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Six defendants are facing federal fraud charges involving separate schemes to obtain a total of more than $2.7 million through fraudulent statements in loan applications submitted to banks, mortgage lenders, several community colleges, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Small Business...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Michael D. Hayden, age 41, and William J. Lednum, age 42, both of Tilghman Island, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to violate the Lacey Act and to defraud the United States through their illegal harvesting and sale of 185,925 pounds of striped bass.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Armando Camarena, 31, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was arrested yesterday by agents of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on federal child pornography charges. Camarena made his initial appearance in federal court earlier today, and remains in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for tomorrow morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Tyree Arvell Monroe, Trayon Alphonse Caulton and Walter J. Porter of Mobile were sentenced following April 2014, guilty pleas to a charge of theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearm dealer. On September ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - A temporary emergency closure is in place for Goldstrike Canyon and Arizona Hot Spring trails within Lake Mead National Recreation Area, effective Aug. 1. This closure includes National Park Service and Bureau of Reclamation lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Nicholas Louras, 28, of Rutland, Vermont, has been charged in federal court with conspiring to distribute heroin in Vermont from November 2013 to March 2014. Louras appeared today before Magistrate Judge John Conroy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) highlighted the similarities between the House-passed Highway Bill and the Senate Finance Committee proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 31, 2014
News Release: Quick Work By Staff And Patrons Key To Avoiding Tragedy.
