News from June 2014
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: National Park Service and Smithsonian. Sign Five-Year Agreement to Continue Folklife Festival Partnership. The National Park Service (NPS) and the Smithsonian have finalized a five-year agreement to continue their partnership to present the annual Folklife Festival on the National Mall. Bob Vogel, superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles Jr. sentenced Abdullah Aljaradi, age 52, a citizen of Yemen residing in Baltimore, was sentenced to two years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. Judge Quarles also entered an order that Aljaradi pay $1.2 million in forfeiture and restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: I’d like to thank Chairman Crenshaw and Ranking Member Serrano for their work on this bill, and the bipartisan spirit in which they work.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Dear Attorney General Holder: The Senate Finance Committee (Committee) has jurisdiction over revenue matters, and the Committee is responsible for conducting oversight of the federal tax system. Since May 2013, the Committee has been conducting a bipartisan investigation of whether the Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a 23-count indictment charging Paul Borrelli, 66, and Joseph Ruff, 32, both of Rochester, N.Y., and Mark Ruff, 40, of Connecticut, with conducting an illegal gambling business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On June 10, 2014, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned a 49-count indictment against Brian C. Rose, a.k.a. John Hankins, 34, of Johnson City, Tenn.; Robert S. McGregor, a.k.a. Jim Robinson III, 36, of Bowling Green, Ky.; Dallas P. McRae, 44, of Orlando, Fla.; Hugh F. Sackett...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: U. S. Attorney’s Office continues to help reduce violence in.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the House Homeland Security Committee, will join Congressman Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX) and Congressman Filemon Vela (D-TX), a member of House Homeland Security Committee, for a tour of McAllen Border Patrol detention facilities and briefing from Border Patrol agents regarding unaccompanied children at 9 a.m. Friday, June 27, 2014, at 3000 W. Military Highway McAllen, Texas 78503.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend living history artillery demonstrations inside Point Park, atop Lookout Mountain, Friday, July 4, at 10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:30 pm, 2:30 pm, and 3:30 pm. Visitors are reminded that admission to Point Park is $3.00 per adult, age 16 and older.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dale N. Smith, 60, of Edgewood, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act by selling or offering to sell Bald Eagle feathers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapoisett woman was sentenced today to a year in prison for stealing nearly $320,000 from two Middleboro businesses.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) released a statement following the Committee’s vote to approve the nomination of Shaun Donovan to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Committee reported out his nomination by a vote of 9 to 1...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Like many people who were supposed to be finishing something, I wasted a little time on Facebook today and came across a Republican friend's reaction to a new break in the IRS scandal. This, he said, was the story "going nuclear" -- this discovery by the Ways and Means Committee that there was a "push to audit Senator Chuck Grassley.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today called for new enforcement tools in order to help U.S. businesses compete in the global economy and create good-paying American jobs.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: The federally-threatened western snowy plover nesting season is underway. Nesting inconspicuously between the tidal zone and upper reaches of coastal beaches, snowy plovers on the West Coast are faced with habitat loss, disturbance, and predation, all of which have taken a toll on this species. Point...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: SEATTLE - Three defendants were sentenced in U.S. District Court for their roles in a large scale oxycodone drug-trafficking and money laundering conspiracy operating between California and Alaska.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today advanced legislation to improve the efficiency of the federal government in addressing issues related to the interdependence of energy and water.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: Peoria, Ill. -Kenneth W. Lewis, 57, of Augusta, Georgia, and Cranford, New Jersey, was sentenced today for wire fraud and money laundering charges, as announced by U.S. Attorney Jim Lewis, Central District of Illinois. U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid ordered Lewis to serve a total of 271 months (22...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: [This article was revised on July 23, 2014, to clarify the relationship between the work reported here and the related problem of calculating relativistic and quantum effects on electron energy levels. The latter becomes a significant factor for the higher atomic number atoms. - Editor]
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders issued the following statements in response to today’s Supreme Court’s decision in American Broadcasting Companies v. Aereo.
