News from June 2014
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Bob Casey (D-Pa.), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) released a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that outlines serious security risks regarding the access to radiological materials at industrial sites. The report was the focus of today’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, “Securing Radiological Materials: Examining the Threat Next Door.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that six defendants have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.- On Wednesday, June 11 at approximately 2:00 p.m. the National Park Service received a call reporting an unconscious male kayaker at Badger Rapids, river mile 8 on the Colorado River within Grand Canyon National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Paul Michajlyszyn, of Leonard, Michigan, former Vice President of Odyssey, Inc. a Lake Orion, MI corporation, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Pamela Morris, former secretary of a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Ozark, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to committing perjury during a grand jury’s investigation into a racially motivated cross-burning in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Even with all the work that must be done at work and home, we still find time for fun. Children particularly have always found ways to have fun; even at places like revolutionary Fort Stanwix. After all their chores were done, and even without computers, video games and I-Phones, children at the fort still had fun.On Saturday, June 21, join the Backyard Rangers and go back in time to 1778 to have some old fashioned fun on the fort lawn!.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Connie Coble, 52, of Alamogordo, N.M., pled guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to participating in a conspiracy to obtain prescription drugs by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception and subterfuge by filling fraudulent prescriptions at retail pharmacies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), announced today that charges in two unrelated cases were brought against the following persons in Harrisburg on June 11, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on their work to make Medicare cost and quality data more transparent, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior Finance Committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, are asking providers, patients, advocates, insurers, entrepreneurs and others for new ideas for improving overall transparency in health care.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Mike Davis and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas Conner Eldridge, announced that six defendants were sentenced this week as a result of drug- trafficking charges. The six individuals sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - WES YUI CHEW, of Edmond, Oklahoma, and his company, ICON TELECOM, INC., also of Edmond, pled guilty today to money laundering and making a false statement to the Federal Communications Commission, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Chew and Icon have also agreed that the United States will keep more than $27 million seized during the investigation.
By State Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will convene a hearing on Wednesday, June 18 to examine the lack of religious freedom in Turkey. The hearing, entitled “Protecting Christian Heritage in Turkey, " will begin at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Twenty-seven defendants are facing state or federal narcotics charges for their alleged roles in supplying and distributing heroin and crack cocaine in the neighborhood just north of Douglas Park on the city’s west side. An investigation led by officers of the Chicago Police Department and...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: In order to provide the highest quality information to support decision-making regarding wind energy, the Energy Department today kicked off the collaborative partnership between its new WINDExchange initiative and six supporting Regional Resource Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking nominations for candidates to serve on the Cotton Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: ASHLAND, KY -An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Ashland, Ky., has been sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiring with a correctional officer and others to smuggle prohibited items into the prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Lisa A. Lewis (age: 49) of Green Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced in federal court in Green Bay for wire fraud. Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach sentenced Lewis to a fifteen-year term of imprisonment and ordered her to pay in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that it has charged a 58-year-old Pittston resident unlawfully possessing and causing to be present a loaded firearm inside the William J. Nealon Federal Building.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 12, 2014
News Release: Featuring solo projects by Patti Smith, Adrian Villar Rojas, and Janet Cardiff as well as an international group show.
