News from November 2014
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Crater Lake National Park is considering increases in entrance fees based on new standards being implemented for national parks across the country. Under the proposal Crater Lake would be placed into a tier that includes most major national parks. The single vehicle entrance fee would increase from $10...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Hawaii collected $6,500,657 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2014. Of this amount, $5,673,133 was collected in criminal actions and $827,524 was collected in civil actions. Additionally...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that defendants...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the comment period for the proposed rule that would promote the use of "designated leasing areas" that include the Bureau of Land Management's Solar Energy Zones. The proposed rule would establish competitive processes, terms, and conditions (including...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury indicted four people in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution operation in Caddo, Bossier, DeSoto, and Red River parishes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former New Jersey resident was arrested today in North Carolina on charges that he allegedly orchestrated a scheme to defraud a United States subsidiary of an international investment bank of more than $1.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New (SDNY), and Loretta E. Lynch, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New (EDNY), announced that Daniel Barrera Barrera, also known as “Loco Barrera," a citizen of Colombia, pleaded guilty today...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Ranking Member Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, today issued the following statement regarding a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) that found certain procedures used by the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to admit goods and products into the U.S to be inefficient and out-of-date...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lesa Howard, 52, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today for her conviction on federal wire fraud and aggravated identity theft charges. Howard will serve a prison sentence of 54 months to be followed by five years of supervised release. She also was ordered to pay $192,953.70 in restitution to Bank of America, the victim of her crimes.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-Westchester/Rockland), the Ranking Member on the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement today on the President’s executive action on immigration.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - Saguaro National Park’s Tucson Mountain District (west) will offer a three-day Wilderness Camp for young people 10 to 14 years old. The dates for the camp are Saturday, Sunday, and Monday December 27-29, 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today introduced the Higher Education Affordability Act (HEAA), his bill to reauthorize the Higher Education Act. The bill takes a comprehensive approach to rein in rising college costs and ensure the system is better serving students and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. released the following statement in support of President Obama’s impending announcement that he will exercise his authority under existing law to improve our broken immigration system through executive action...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Second Degree Murder was sentenced on Nov. 17, 2014, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fourteen alleged members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi, including four of its most senior leaders, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in the Northern District of Mississippi for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. In a separate indictment, 11 alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 20, 2014, Spencer James Bertling, age 22, formerly from Solon, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge James E. Gritzner to 33 months imprisonment for possession of a sawed off shotgun, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Bertling was also ordered to serve two years of supervised release following the imprisonment, and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jessica Bryden, - 22, of Greenbush was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge John A. Woodcock, ...
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) was joined by Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) today in introducing a resolution condemning all forms of persecution and discrimination against the Muslim Rohingya ethnic group in Burma, and calling on the regional governments to protect the rights of Rohingya refugees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Nov. 20, 2014, Arthur Allen, Jr., age 25, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, section 1951, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2014
News Release: SAN DIEGO - United States Attorney Laura Duffy, together with law enforcement partners and transgender leaders, will offer a groundbreaking training session today to promote respect and trust between officers and a transgender community that has faced discrimination, abuse and ridicule.
