News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that CYD MARIE BABB, was sentenced to 6 months in prison followed by 1 year supervised release in connection with her guilty plea to obtaining pain killers through fraud. BABB was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam Haddon during a federal court session in Butte, on Feb. 21, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on March 5, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy, MARCO ANTONIO MORALES-ROA, was sentenced to 78 months in prison followed by 4 years supervised release in connection with his December 2013 guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, President Obama nominated Deirdre M. Daly and James Walter Frazer Green to serve as U.S. Attorneys.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today charging Jose Trinidad Salas, 43, of McFarland, with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and being a person in the United States unlawfully in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 13, 2014 - Today, the House of Representatives approved H.R. 3189, the Water Rights Protection Act by a bipartisan vote of 238-174. This bipartisan bill, authored by Natural Resources Committee Member Scott Tipton (CO-03), protects private property rights from recent federal overreach...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining ways to strengthen and expand the middle class...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: A century ago, shortly after the Ford Motor Company introduced its Model T, Henry Ford shocked the business world by increasing his workers’ pay to five dollars a day. It was more than double the going rate, but Ford knew it would guarantee he would have the best workforce in Detroit. It also meant his...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Sometimes even honey bees need help with "housekeeping," especially when it comes to cleaning their honeycombs once the honey's been removed. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) research has shown that fumigating honeycombs with ozone gas can eliminate pests and pathogens that threaten honey bee health and productivity. Now, ozone fumigation may also help reduce pesticide levels in honeycombs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. The United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut todayannounced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport has returned an indictment charging a Monroe property management company, its...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that KEVIN SCOTT NESSLAND, 41, of Bozeman, Montana, was sentenced to 84 months in prison followed by 15 years supervised release during a federal court hearing in Missoula, on March 6, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen. Nessland was sentenced in connection with his November 2013 bench trial conviction on three counts of Receipt of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Earlier this week, BRIAN WILLIAM McKYE, 50, from Bethany, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 204 months in federal prison after being found guilty of seven counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering in operating a Ponzi scheme, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 60, a Honolulu, Hawaii defense contractor and former Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army, pleaded guilty today in federal court to willfully communicating classified national defense information to a person not authorized to receive it and willfully retaining classified national...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA MARCH 15-APRIL 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Defendant Taken Into Custody Immediately To Begin Prison Sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Challenge: Located within a 50-mile radius of each other on the Kuskokwim River Delta in southwest Alaska, the Native villages of Kipnuk, Kongiganak, Kwigillingok, and Tuntutuliak are not connected by road or electrical intertie, but they are similar in size, resources, and cultural heritage. Their total...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: BOISE - Jose E. Carrillo, 26, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distribution of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Carrillo was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise, Idaho, on May 29, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: Identity Theft And Bribery Part Of Scheme To Defraud U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led a hearing examining innovative approaches to strengthen and expand the middle class. The committee heard compelling testimony from economists and other experts on the challenges the middle class is facing today and recommended policies to address those challenges.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: The proposed budget will enhance public safety and community resiliency to weather and climate disasters. It also makes smart investments in critical infrastructure and innovative science to better position NOAA for the future and continues efforts to strengthen the agency’s oceanic and coastal programs, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today charging Jose Trinidad Salas, 43, of McFarland, with conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and being a person in the United States unlawfully in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
