News from October 2014
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: "Full moon lights all the groves and rocks and casts splendid masses of shade on meadow and wall." -John Muir, Letters to a Friend: Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- James Autry “Audi" Clemens, age 60 of Johnston, SC, Larry Baker, age 64 of Cameron, SC and Steven Crandall, age 59 of Salisbury, NC entered guilty pleas to theft of government funds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641 in connection with their scheme...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking additional information about the presence of harmful...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today that the Office of Justice Programs’ National Institute of Justice (NIJ) has awarded nearly $63 million to school districts and research organizations through the Comprehensive School Safety Initiative (CSSI). CSSI is a large-scale, multi-agency research effort to build knowledge about effective approaches to increasing school safety nationwide.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking additional information about the presence of harmful...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A former FBI special agent and a conspirator pleaded guilty in Salt Lake City yesterday and today to participating in a bribery scheme to obstruct a grand jury investigation in exchange for the promise of cash and multimillion dollar business contracts offered by a businessman under investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Donald Reche Caldwell (35, Tampa) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a positional isomer of Butylone, also known as Ethylone, and commonly marketed as the street drug “Molly." He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: The study comes at a time when new technologies are helping to accelerate oil and gas development in Utah’s Uintah Basin, elsewhere in the United States and in many other countries, and its findings may help air quality managers determine how to best minimize the impact of ozone pollution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Philadelphia resident was sentenced today to serve six months in prison for her role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brandon Tafoya, 23, a member of the Santa Clara Pueblo who resides in Espanola, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: “Secretary Johnson has informed me that he has accepted Director Pierson’s resignation. I know this was a difficult decision for Director Pierson, and I thank her for her 30 years of service to the agency and to our nation. Now, it is time to turn the page. It is critical for us to understand the obvious...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN - - James J. Hunt, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph A. D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, announced two major seizures of heroin worth more than $12 million dollars and nine arrests.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park commemorates both Hawaiian Archeology Week Oct. 3-12, and International Archeology Day on Oct. 18 by offering a series of ranger-guided hikes, archeology-themed events, and a special junior ranger program. All programs are free, but park entrance fees apply. Chisel these events onto your calendars.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Tony Lashone Gray of Mobile was sentenced following a June 2014 guilty plea to a charge of being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. Gray was previously convicted of Possession of Cocaine in 2007...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Office Veteran Takes Over Following Resignation Of Jenny A. Durkan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Victor Flores, Benjamin Campos-Gonzalez, and Armando Acosta were convicted of racketeering conspiracy by a federal jury yesterday, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Acting Special Agent in Charge Tatum King, and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Fred W. Gibson, Principal Deputy Inspector General, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of Inspector General...
