News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Gary Tubby, 53, a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Carleton W. Reeves today to sexual exploitation of children, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen. The offense occurred on the Tribal lands of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: DENVER - James P. Burg, age 63, formerly of Fairplay, Colorado, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge John L. Kane to serve 90 months in federal prison for mail fraud and failing to file an income tax return, federal law enforcement authorities announced. Following his prison sentence, Burg was ordered to spend 3 years on supervised release. Judge Kane also ordered him to pay just under $2.5 million in restitution to the approximately 40 victims of his crime.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Las Vegas - Today the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Nevada Division of Forestry, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service are implementing fire restrictions in Southern Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury indicted Maria Anay Castaneda-Aleman, and Emmanuel Navarro Gallegos, a/k/a “Armando Roberto Espino," on May 14, 2014, and charged both defendants with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine and possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cornallsen Cortez, 32, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Navajo, N.M., was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for his abusive sexual contact conviction. Cortez will be required to register as a sex offender when he completes his prison sentence.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Theodore Roosevelt National Park wants to remind motorists to Click It or Ticket. In order to enforce this reminder, park law enforcement rangers will be stepping up enforcement beginning May 19th2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, May 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on May 16, 2014, Donald Ray Keip, 39, of Anderson, Indiana, was sentenced on the...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: “We need to use the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayer.".
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: From Monday, May 19, through June 30, a temporary public closure will be in effect for Schwabacher Landing Road, parking lot, and surrounding area that provides direct access to the eastbank of the Snake River from Highway 26/89/191 (Hwy 89). The area closure is necessary to ensure public safety during construction activities that involve large trucks and heavy machinery. This construction project will repair and pave the upper (.3 mile) portion of Schwabacher Landing Road.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: By employing a technique analogous to the operation of noise-canceling headphones, PML researchers have created an exquisitely sensitive, semiconductor-based, single-photon detection system that has the highest reported detection efficiency of any device of its type and is capable of detecting hundreds of millions of photons per second with very low noise.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: (DETROIT) - Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) joined with six other Members of Congress urged the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to bring more fairness to struggling students by establishing clear standards of eligibility for “undue hardship" discharge of federal student loans in bankruptcy...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge this week sentenced a Birmingham man to nearly 47 years in prison for an armed bank robbery in Tarrant in October, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: High water releases from Crystal Dam are expected to occur throughout late May and well into June. Peak water flow is predicted to approach 8,000 cubic feet per second through the main gorge of Black Canyon. The Gunnison River will be fast, cold, deep, and cloudy. Flows will also be irregular, causing fluctuations in depth and velocity throughout the day.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: Superintendent Cheryl Schreier has announced the summer schedule for Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Hue Bui, 27, of Erath, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote, to 12 months in prison and two years of supervised release for one count of wire fraud involving theft from Walk-On’s Bistreaux and Bar in Lafayette. Bui was also ordered to pay $30,222.12 in restitution to Walk-On’s.
By Homeland Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON- Yesterday, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Census Bureau Director John Thompson requesting information about the Bureau’s preparations for the 2020 Decennial Census. This letter is part of the Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Bureau and the Census.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Department of Transportation’s announcement that General Motors has agreed to pay a record $35 million civil penalty for failure to report the ignition switch safety defect to the government in a timely manner.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Two defendants involved in a methamphetamine conspiracy were sentenced on May 14, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U. S. District Judge. Daniel W. Johnson, 33, of Mountain City, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 130 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised...
