News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Judianne Horn, age 43, of Owings Mills, Maryland pleaded guilty today to aiding in the preparation of false tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former U.S. Post Office employee was sentenced today in federal court to four years probation and restitution of $5,729.65 on her convictions of misappropriation of postal funds and theft of mail by a postal employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) assailed Republicans for passage of H.R. 2824, legislation that would undermine states’ efforts to protect drinking water, the environment, and local communities from destructive mountaintop removal coal...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park encourages volunteers to register to help count humpback whales during the final 2014 Sanctuary Ocean Count held this Saturday, March 29, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 21 Kansas City, Mo., area men have been indicted by a federal grand jury, in a series of separate, but related, indictments for distributing cocaine and crack cocaine in Jackson County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 14, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Officials of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced the selection of Kent Rochford to head NIST's new Communication Technology Laboratory (CTL) in Boulder, Colo. The new CTL will be the seventh of NIST's major research units and will serve as the NIST portion of the "Center for Advanced Communications," a joint effort between NIST and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) that was announced last year.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Bark beetles continue to be active within Rocky Mountain National Park, impacting large numbers of conifer trees. The park's priorities for mitigation of the effects of beetles are focused on removing hazard trees and hazard fuels related to the protection of life and property. For several years, Rocky...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) today criticized the Obama Administration for pushing forward with its plans to dramatically expand federal jurisdiction over waters and wet areas in the United States.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), will convene a hearing to examine the geopolitical potential of U.S. energy resources tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET. The hearing is entitled “The Geopolitical Potential of the U.S. Energy Boom.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announces that in federal court yesterday Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced former attorney AMY ROBINSON, 36, of Rolesville, to 18 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. The Court further ordered ROBINSON to make restitution of $2,613,046.37 to various banks and other victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that John Zdanecis, 79, of Brighton, N.Y., who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to five years probation by U.S. District Judge Charles G. Siragusa. The defendant was also ordered to pay $82,500 in restitution to victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man admitted today in Trenton federal court to traveling to New Jersey in order to coerce a Jewish man to give his wife a religious divorce - referred to as a “get" - through threats of violence, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 25, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing examining the spending priorities outlined in the President’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request for the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation), the Power Marketing Administrations (PMAs), and the U.S. Geological Survey’s Water program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe stated today that a federal grand jury in St. Croix has returned a seven-count indictment charging Abdallah Abdallah, 23, of St. Croix, with Carjacking, Using a Firearm During Crime of Violence, Robbery First Degree, Unauthorized Possession of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Barrett R. Rochman, 71 of Makonda, Ill., was sentenced in United States District...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Together, the Yukon Arts Centre, Parks Canada and the National Park Service are pleased to announce the visual artists chosen for the 2014 Chilkoot Trail Artist Residency Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Joel Sanchez Jr., 44, of Corpus Christi, will now be serving 188 months in federal prison following his conviction of being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He entered a plea of guilty Nov. 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA -- DERECK JEROME BROWN, 33, of Waycross, Georgia, was sentenced last week before Chief United States District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood to 210 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: As the weather warms, paving and other minor roadway surface repairs to the campground and Chubb Hollow roadways will resume at the Big Spring area.
