News from July 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: July 21, 2014 09:00 am. Marblemount, WA--- Today command of the Lone Mountain Fire was transferred from the local team to the Northern Rockies Wildland Fire Management Team (NR WMT). The NR WMT is a highly skilled group of professional firefighters trained to manage large and complex fires. In addition...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Official in charge of document production also raises possibility of new e-mail losses from ‘less than 20’ officials
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Tourism to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area create $43.5 million in Economic Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former mayor of the City of Rosemead was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to attempted witness tampering and making false statements to FBI agents conducting a corruption investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, construction began on an innovative $19.5 million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. Brown Generating Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The 2 megawatt thermal system will be the first megawatt-scale carbon-capture pilot unit in the Commonwealth.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a free brown-bag lecture on Thursday, July 24 from 12- 1pm at the Community Building in West Glacier. The public is invited to join Glacier National Park Artist-in-Residence Melinda Whipplesmith Plank, who will demonstrate the process of printmaking and display prints inspired by Glacier National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Lee Marvin Koerner, 50, has been ordered to prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Koerner pleaded guilty April 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Heath Lee Roberson, 39, of Modesto, was sentenced today to two years and nine months in prison by Senior United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii, for conspiring to submit false claims to the IRS, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Roberson was also ordered to pay over $66,322 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Late last Friday, a criminal complaint was unsealed charging MARK SUMPTER, 43, from Oklahoma City, with traveling to Colorado to pick up a 13-year-old girl to bring her to Oklahoma City to engage in illicit sexual conduct, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
Release: U.S. agricultural exports are a bright spot in our economy - the past five years represent the strongest in history for agricultural trade. We export everything from soybeans and dairy to specialty products and fresh produce, all adding up to revenue and jobs back home in the United States. On a recent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man who was part of a drug trafficking organization that distributed more than $1.6 million’s worth of cocaine, crack and marijuana in the Kansas City, Kan., area was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - - The Coast Guard seized more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana with an estimated wholesale value of $3.5 million and detained five suspected smugglers during a drug interdiction in the Caribbean Sea, Southwest of Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Christopher Johnson, age 36, of Clinton, Maryland today to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud businesses which supplied goods under government contracts. Judge Grimm also entered an order that Johnson pay restitution of $426,376.99.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A federal jury in Boston has convicted a friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, for impeding the bombing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Jeffrey Kirk Berry, a/k/a “Kojack," age 55, of Lexington Park, Maryland, today to 15 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to strongly object to the Committee’s plan to call IRS Commissioner John Koskinen to testify yet again this coming Wednesday, which would be the third time in the last month he has appeared before the Committee. This public harassment of an agency head is not only an...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: Mobile, Alabama-based Infirmary Health System Inc. (IHS), two IHS-affiliated clinics and Diagnostic Physicians Group P.C. (DPG) have agreed to pay the United States $24.5 million to resolve a lawsuit alleging that they violated the False Claims Act by paying or receiving financial inducements in connection with claims to the Medicare program, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Wichita chiropractor pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding health care insurers of more than $1.3 million, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Angela Sloane, 30, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging her with child abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 21, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - Anthony Galloway, 38, of Dallas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 64 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in February 2014 to one count of bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
