News from October 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 25-year-old Palestine, Texas man has pleaded guilty to child pornography charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - ANDRE NADEAU, age 55, of New Haven, Connecticut, was sentenced yesterday by the Honorable Thomas J. McAvoy to 18 months in federal prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for failing to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (“SORNA"). The sentence follows NADEAU’s May 1, 2014 guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LAMAR POWELL, 60, of Norwalk, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Park Ready to Commemorate 150th Anniversary of the Battle of Cedar Creek.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Bureau of Land Management Deputy Director Steve Ellis, U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and James Risch, local stakeholders and ranchers to see first-hand efforts to conserve the sagebrush habitat that supports wildlife, outdoor recreation and other economic...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 14, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent a today to Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell responding to her September 9th letter on the Committee’s oversight efforts. In the letter, Chairman Hastings explains how the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Kirit D. Patel, 71, of Tracy, pleaded guilty today to four counts of mail fraud and wire fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal jury on Monday convicted three people of conspiracy and fraud for their family run scheme to steal more than $3 million from the claims fund established by British Petroleum for victims of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Anthony Murua, 36, of Fresno, to six years and five months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced approximately $5 million in funding to 13 states to advance innovative approaches for local clean energy development that will reduce energy bills for American families and businesses, protect the environment by reducing carbon emissions and increase our nation’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - David Downing, Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge, and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Frank Medina, Jr. age 32, of Moreno Valley, California and his co-conspirator, Juliana Perez, age 44, of Rogers, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three men entered guilty pleas to drug-related charges arising out of two different cases. In the first case, two Southern California residents pleaded guilty today to use of an interstate facility to aid racketeering, and in the second case, a Bakersfield resident pleaded guilty today to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: The Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans today released emails between top officials at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), including Gina McCarthy, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which demonstrate the very close working relationship between the two organizations to develop the carbon rule - dating back to 2011 - two years before EPA has said the public had an opportunity to provide input.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The Department of Justice has awarded the Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles a Second Chance Act grant of $687,176 to establish a Day Reporting Center in Birmingham, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Pardons and Paroles Executive Director Cynthia Dillard.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 14, 2014
News Release: World Trade Organization Rules Against India’s Restrictions on U.S. Poultry
By Commerce News Now | Oct 13, 2014
News Release: REMARKS AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY
By Commerce News Now | Oct 13, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Steve Crocker, for your introduction and for your leadership as the Chairman of ICANN. I also want to thank you, Fadi Chehade, and the entire Board of ICANN for bringing together so many leaders in the global internet community and for taking the lead in advancing the multistakeholder process. ...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 13, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Burns District Office will conduct an emergency wild horse gather within the Weaver Lake portion of the Palomino Buttes Herd Management Area (HMA) this week. This emergency gather is due to lack of water within this portion of the HMA. Once captured, precaution will...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 13, 2014
News Release: BOGOTA, Colombia - An international undercover law enforcement operation culminated Saturday with the arrests of 12 individuals involved in sex trafficking and the rescue of 55 sex trafficking victims, all minors.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 12, 2014
News Release: GLENNALLEN - A recent, detailed, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land status review has revealed that an additional 29,000 acres of lands in the vicinity of Paxson Lake, Alaska are unencumbered Federal public lands and are therefore open to Federal subsistence hunting. Approximately 1,500 acres of these...
