News from October 2014
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Supporting the goals of the Obama Administration’s Climate Action Plan, the Energy Department today announced $15 million in available funding to help integrate distributed, on-site solar energy systems into the nation’s electrical grid. With more solar power installed in the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: MISSOULA - In what Montana's United States Attorney has described as a "major victory in the fight against child exploitation", the United States Attorney's Office announced that eleven men have been sentenced for their role in an international child pornography network which was targeted by investigators...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a new calibration service for high-power lasers of the sort used by manufacturers for applications such as cutting and welding metals, as well as by the military for more specialized applications like defusing unexploded land mines.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to making false statements in order to receive more than $454,000 in income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former CFO/CEO of a Kansas City, Mo., company was sentenced in federal court today for a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $338,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Used Stolen Identity to Gain Employment at a Pediatrician’s Office;.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Lake Roosevelt NRA announces that the Draft Fire Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (FMP/EA) is available for public review and comment. The purpose of the Lake Roosevelt NRA Draft FMP/EA is to replace the existing FMP/EA by adding project areas for hazard fuel reduction and to revise the operating guidelines for project implementation, expanding the use of mechanical methods and the continued use of prescribed fire to accomplish park management objectives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Kathleen Elizabeth Myers, age 21, of Thurmont, Maryland today to 7 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Judge Quarles also ordered Myers to pay more than $7,000 in restitution, to cover the medical costs and funeral expenses of the person who died after Myers and a co-defendant supplied him with heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Brackenridge, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of theft of government property and false statements to the government, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released an analysis of the important role water resources play in Iraq’s plans to expand its production of oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kevin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Oct. 29, 2014, an indictment issued by a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico was unsealed, charging four defendants with racketeering, interference with commerce by robbery, and related firearm offenses, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The FBI is in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Stephen B. Lopez was sentenced today to 24 months in prison, and ordered to pay $1.3 million in restitution for his guilty plea to two counts of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Robert Mosakowski will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 4, 2014 general elections. AUSA...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JAMES A. WAGONER, 40, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty to making a false statement in the acquisition of a firearm before United States District Court Judge Mae A. D’Agostino, on Oct. 14, 2014, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and James S. Higgins, Acting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former correctional officer with the Clay County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department pleaded guilty in federal court today to violating the civil rights of an arrestee by assaulting him.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former secretary-treasurer of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Lodge 800 pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $12,000, which nearly depleted the lodge’s bank account.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Rick L. Volk will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 4, 2014, general elections. AUSA Volk serves as...
