News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - Superintendent Patrick M. Kenney is pleased to announce the addition of Moonrise Tours of the Cape Lookout Lighthouse. These guided climbing tours will be offered on eight dates in June, July, and August. Bring your own flashlight and experience the lighthouse as the keepers did, in the dark of night. Hear stories of the light keepers and watch the moon as it rises over the Atlantic Ocean and reflects off the waters of Core Sound.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tremec Jeffries, 38, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 228 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to making a hoax telephone call with a false threat to contaminate the public water supplies of Kansas City, Mo., St. Louis, Mo., Wichita, Kan., and Topeka, Kan.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today pressed the Department of Health and Human services for details regarding several failed state-run health care exchanges. The leaders write, “According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nichole Dean, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty to bank fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $1,000,000 or both.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today pressed the Department of Health and Human services for details regarding several failed state-run health care exchanges. The leaders write, “According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Jessika Green pleaded guilty on May 30, 2014, to conspiring to file false claims, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Tremec Jeffries, 38, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 228 months in prison by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Former Owner of Knoxville Employee Leasing Company Faces Potential Prison Term and Obligation to Pay Restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today pressed the Department of Health and Human services for details regarding several failed state-run health care exchanges. The leaders write, “According to data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Ngoc Duong a/k/a Danny Duong and Hong Lee Wong a/k/a William Wong were sentenced on Friday, May 30, 2014, to 30 and 28 months in prison, respectively, for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Thursday, the House passed an amendment sponsored by Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Representative Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA) that will save West Coast fishermen $2.4 million. Their amendment...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants as harmful to the U.S. economy.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Senate should act to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities (CRPD) now that the Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Bond v. United States, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) said today. Harkin is the Senate author of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and has helped lead the fight in the Senate to ratify the CRPD. He serves as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ernedina Madrigal, 78, of Fresno, aka Mary Louise Madrigal, pleaded guilty today to stealing social security benefits, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Park Shares Tips for Successful Visits to Yosemite Region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Sparks, Nev. resident who was trading laptop computers for sex with minor girls, was sentenced today to five years in prison and 10 years of supervised release, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today Senate Finance Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement on the 2014 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conference on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) taking place this week in Washington, DC.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2014
News Release: Woodstock, VT (June, 2014) - Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and the Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program are among 37 national parks/programs selected to receive a 2014 Active Trails grant from the National Park Foundation, the official charity of America’s national parks.
