News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - May22, 2014. Contacts Name: ERIC CAMPBELL - (540) 868-0937. Special National Park Service Programs to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of. the 1864 Shenandoah Valley Campaign. Middletown, VA ----- Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park, in partnership with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Case is one of many brought as a result of United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s Metro-East Armed Robbery Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Business Was Awarded Dozens of Undeserved Contracts Worth $1.2 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- “I have enormous confidence in the integrity of the federal agents with whom we work, but I also recognize that, increasingly, we live in a world where juries expect to see law enforcement make electronic recordings of defendants’ statements at the time of arrest," said U.S. Attorney Joyce...
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: POINT REYES, CALIFORNIA - Point Reyes National Seashore will be increasing hours and services to help visitors make the most of their summer. Beginning on Memorial Day Weekend and running through Labor Day Weekend, all park visitor centers will have extended days and hours of service.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The North Entrance Road in Crater Lake National Park will open for travel Friday afternoon, May 23, 2014 - just in time for the holiday weekend. Superintendent Craig Ackerman announced that visitors will now be able to drive to and from the park via this popular route and access spectacular views of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAWAWN RICARDO HALE, 31, of Roanoke, Va., was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 43 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a conspiracy to traffic firearms from Virginia to Connecticut, and possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - United States Army soldier Albert Kelly III of Fort Knox, Kentucky, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for his role in stealing fuel at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Salerno in Afghanistan. In addition to his prison term, Kelly was sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today voted to protect the future of the Internet by agreeing to Rep. John Shimkus’ (R-IL) amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill that mirrors language from the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act of 2014. Shimkus...
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Senate Finance Committee, and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions yesterday sent a letter to Marilyn Tavenner, Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, regarding the backlog...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 302-121 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361), a bipartisan bill authored by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.) that ends bulk collection of data by the government and reforms our nation’s intelligence-gathering programs operated under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
By US DOT Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and EPW Ranking Member, Senator David Vitter (R-LA), issued the following statement after the Senate voted 91 to 7 to adopt the Senate-House conference report for the Water Resources and Reform Development ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, HILDA PARKER, 57, of Goldsboro, North Carolina, entered a guilty plea to wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on draft legislation to address illegitimate patent demand letters. The legislation aims to protect businesses from abusive patent assertion entities (PAEs), or patent trolls, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today voted to protect the future of the Internet by agreeing to Rep. John Shimkus’ (R-IL) amendment to the National Defense Authorization bill that mirrors language from the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act of 2014. Shimkus...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Malden man pleaded guilty yesterday to sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Santos Acevedo Gutierrez, 41, of Shafter, charging him with possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on draft legislation to address illegitimate patent demand letters. The legislation aims to protect businesses from abusive patent assertion entities (PAEs), or patent trolls, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2014
News Release: Two men from the Toledo area were convicted for their roles in the operation of a $24 million fraud scheme involving the sale of Iraqi dinar currency and non-existent hedge funds, and falsely representing that a member of their organization was a decorated Marine who was wounded in combat, announced Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
