News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Southeast Regional Director Stan Austin announced that Bob Krumenaker has been appointed as the next acting Superintendent for Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks, effective August 4.Krumenaker will replace the current acting superintendent, Shawn Benge who will return to his duties as deputy regional director in Atlanta.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, June 12, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Jonathan A. Miller, Jr., 56, of Morrisville, Pennsylvania was charged on June 3, 2014, by indictment with possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon. The indictment charges that Miller committed this offense in Penndel, Pennsylvania on Jan. 19, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that yesterday, two men pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance to charges involving the sexual victimization of children.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: 1859 Imitation Pearl Necklace Demonstration: Saturday, June 14 from Noon to 4 p.m. Learn to make a netted imitation pearl necklace, from an 1859 pattern. This is a drop-in program, so come by any time between noon and 4 p.m. Free.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, June 12, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Hogsett continues crackdown on illegal drugs and illegal gun possession.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - At a sentencing hearing held this morning before Chief U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, Selemani Hakizimana was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison and ordered to pay approximately $362,000 in restitution, following his guilty plea in February 2014 to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of public money, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Mark Patrick Eddy, 45, was sentenced this morning to a year and a day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez and Director John Billison of the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Earlier this week in federal court, a 31-year-old St. Paul man pleaded guilty to one count of Possession of a Stolen Firearm. Michael Anthony Vargas, who was charged via an Information on May 3, 2014, entered his guilty plea on June 3, 2014 before United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Angel Aquino-Pineda, 27, of McAllen, has been ordered to serve more than eight years in the Bureau of Prisons for his role in trafficking AK-47 variant rifles to Mexico, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Aquino-Pineda pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Hayden Head on March 26, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: STATESBORO, GA - Earlier today, Aubrey Lee Price, 47, pleaded guilty to bank, securities and wire fraud to resolve charges brought in the Southern District of Georgia and the Eastern District of New York relating to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme that Price executed to defraud dozens of investors...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Republican House members today wrote the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Obama administration’s recent proposal to transition Internet oversight to the global multi-stakeholder community. In March 2014, the National Telecommunications...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Tangela R. Jackson-Lezeau, 34, and Kerry Lionel Ruffin, 31, have both entered guilty pleas in a scheme in which fraudulent tax returns were filed using identification information that was stolen and used without lawful authority, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Chickamauga, Ga., woman was sentenced in federal court today for making false claims for tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Julian Balbi, 22, of Providence, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to participating in a scheme in which personal identifying information of more than 1,200 individuals was collected, of which many were used to file fraudulent tax returns with the IRS totaling more than $1.8 million dollars. Balbi pleaded guilty to four counts of aggravated identity theft and one count each of conspiracy and theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: HUMBOLDT, Tenn. - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced today that on April 23, 2014, Frank Snowden, age 37, was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison and 12 months supervised released for prohibited individual in possession of a firearm by United States District Judge Daniel Breen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Karin Yamilec Aguilar-Melgor, 22, of Houston, has admitted to smuggling of a group of nine illegal aliens that left one deceased, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz.,On Tuesday, June 3 at approximately 7:20 p.m. the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call via satellite phone reporting a female in and out of consciousness from an apparent allergic reaction at river mile 168 on the Colorado River.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., issued the following statement in response to the news that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Department of Justice will not be pursuing charges against Ernesto Pulido, a California tree-trimmer who unintentionally injured five baby birds while performing a job for which the U.S. Postal Service had hired him.
