News from November 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit is a website (toolkit.climate.gov ) developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other Federal agencies to enable decision-makers to take action to boost their climate resilience using data-driven tools, information, and subject-matter...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Iberia man was sentenced to 210 months in prison for traveling to North Carolina in order to have sex with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Robert Harold Scott, Jr., 27, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced today to life in prison, for enticing and conspiring with multiple women to produce child pornography, among other charges including obstruction of justice.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researchers have deciphered the chemical signals the brown marmorated stink bug (BMSB) uses to attract other stink bugs, opening the door to development of traps and technologies that should help keep the invasive pest out of backyards, gardens, homes and agricultural operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement following the passing of former Congressman and Committee Member Bill Frenzel (R-MN)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles Jobe, 54, of Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to one count of assault on a federal officer, a misdemeanor in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 111(a), announced Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1.3 million of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement regarding the first oil at Tubular Bells, a deepwater oil and gas field off the coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. This site is where the very first offshore rig of its kind was designed and constructed entirely in the United States. Much of the rig construction took place in Houma, La.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Ville Platte man was sentenced Friday to 102 months in prison for the armed robbery of more than $11,000 from a truck stop and a casino in St. Landry Parish.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Michael Seguine, 63, of Bakersfield, pleaded guilty today to structuring cash deposits, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management Colorado will offer 39 parcels totaling 28,079 acres during the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for 9 a.m., Feb. 12, 2015, at the Colorado State Office in Lakewood.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- Esri, Inc., a geographic information systems (GIS) software development company based in Redlands, California, has paid $550,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) National Operations Center (NOC) during the course of multi-year GIS software development projects called the National Integration Land System and GeoCommunicator.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Brian McGlamery, Acting Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Labor, Office of Inspector General, Office of Labor Racketeering and Fraud Investigations, and Jesse Panuccio, Executive Director, State of Florida’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas, and the FBI’s Dallas Division Office announced that Brice Johnson, 19, of Springtown, Texas, was sentenced today in federal court to 183 months imprisonment for kidnapping a young gay man after luring the victim to his home and brutally assaulting him because of his sexual orientation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: DENVER - This morning United States Attorney John Walsh, Mexican Consul General Carlos J. Bello, and Colorado Attorney General John Suthers signed a trilateral memorandum of understanding (MOU) which formalized a cooperative relationship to protect and promote the lawful rights of Mexican nationals in...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months imprisonment followed by five years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal drug trafficking laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, Nov. 17, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, Jody Ray Wooters, 46, of Centralia, Illinois...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s (PBGC) 2014 Annual Report. Congress requires the agency to provide the Annual Report so that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2014
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Rafael Cardenas Vela has been ordered to prison for 20 years following his conviction related to his participation in a long term drug conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson...
