News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - In an effort to ensure a variety of recreational opportunities are available within the Upper Colorado River Special Recreation Management Area, the Bureau of Land Management Kremmling Field Office is encouraging special recreation permit applications from commercial entities that can provide unique opportunities for the public.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beechview resident has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months imprisonment, to be followed by six years supervised release, on his conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri man was sentenced Wednesday to 13 years and a month in federal prison for a robbery at a bank in Shawnee, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: An illegal alien from Mexico who assumed the identity of a United States citizen was sentenced today to more than two years in federal prison.

By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding the agency’s imminent plans to propose revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone and the estimated...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), wrote to President Obama requesting his opinion on legislation that would authorize and build the Keystone XL Pipeline.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a 2011 wetlands determination made by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) was affirmed by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on Oct. 31, 2014.

By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding the agency’s imminent plans to propose revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone and the estimated...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Brandon Morrison, 25, of New York City, was arraigned today on an indictment charging him with five counts of wire fraud, five counts of making a false claim against the United States, and four counts of identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that 15 Columbia, Mo., residents are among 27 defendants who have been indicted by a federal grand jury for their roles in a large-scale conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in Boone County, Mo., and a conspiracy to promote prostitution in Boone County.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Miguel Ortiz, Antonio Castillo, and Marvin Cortez were arraigned in federal court this morning after being arrested yesterday on charges that included racketeering conspiracy, firearms violations, and the commission of a July 19, 2014, gang-related murder in San Francisco, announced United...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), and Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) applauded final passage of the Government Reports Elimination Act (H.R. 4194), that eliminates or modifies unnecessary, outdated, or duplicative...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FENG LING LIU, a/k/a Karen, the attorney and owner of law firms in the Chinatown neighborhood of Manhattan, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for her leadership of an immigration...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding the agency’s imminent plans to propose revisions to the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone and the estimated...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - A juried show of twenty-six art quilts created by 22 Florida artists will debut in Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery on December 5, 2014. The show, titled Piecing Together a Changing Planet, highlights a few of the many ways that America's 401 National...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County corrections officer was arrested today by special agents of the FBI for taking bribes to smuggle contraband, including cell phones and cigarettes, into the Essex County Jail, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DMITRY BRAVERMAN, a former Senior Systems Engineer at a prominent national law firm, pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to insider trading. Specifically, BRAVERMAN admitted repeatedly using...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.