News from September 2014
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Capitol Reef National Park and the Entrada Institute are partnering in September for the annual Heritage Starfest. The weekend will be full of special events, guest speakers, stargazing, telescope viewing, storytelling, and more. The dark skies of Wayne County and Capitol Reef are some of the darkest...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, September 5, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. A Jefferson County woman was sentenced on Sept. 3, 2014, to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service will soon be issuing a prospectus soliciting for proposals in response to a business opportunity to operate overnight horse camp service at Station Camp within the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located on Station Camp Road near Oneida, Tennessee. The camp includes a shower house and 24 trailer/tent sites each with tie ups,electrical hookups and water.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations report on IRS and TIGTA mismanagement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that Myron J. Penass, (age: 21), of Neopit, located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, in the State of Wisconsin, was sentenced on September 4, 2014, in United States District Court to 262 months of imprisonment, followed by a term of 20 years on supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - The National Response Team (NRT) of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) along with ATF special agents from the New York Field Division were activated Thursday to join the investigation of the fire and explosion at Praxair, Inc., 175 East Park Ave., in Tonawanda. The fire and subsequent explosion occurred early Thursday morning. The NRT is expected to arrive on scene late today.
By State Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the Pentagon confirmation of the killing of al-Shabaab leader Ahmed Godane...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted Jonathan Conklin, 43, and Charles Sanford, 30, on charges of carjacking, use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence and felon in possession of a firearm. The charges carry a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years in prison, a maximum sentence of life, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. -A Quitman man pleaded guilty to producing child pornography, U.S.Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week to examine issues impacting the U.S. merchant marine, the fleet of U.S. documented, or flagged, commercial vessels which carries imports and exports during peacetime and becomes a naval auxiliary to deliver troops and war materiel during wartime.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: The Little Rock Film Festival and the National Park Service present the Reel Civil Rights Film Festival and 57th anniversary of the integration of Little Rock Central High School.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - ERIN MARIE WELLS, of Yukon, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison for check forgery and signing a false federal income tax return, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be celebrating National Public Lands Day on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014. National Public Lands Day is the nation's largest, single-day volunteer event in which eight federal agencies as well as other groups partner together to maintain and protect the environment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced a former drug vendor on the Silk Road website, Jacob Theodore George IV, age 33, of Edgewood, Maryland, today to six years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute drugs, including heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kim Man Chu, age 39, of Baltimore, to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud in connection with a scheme to illegally redeem food stamp benefits in exchange for cash. Judge Motz also previously entered an order that Chu forfeit $834,996 and six firearms along with ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Boston - A Ludlow man was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Springfield today for child exploitation charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Robert M. Faiella, a/k/a “BTCKing," an underground Bitcoin exchanger, and Charlie Shrem, formerly the Chief Executive Officer and Compliance Officer of a Bitcoin exchange company, both pleades...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - REGINA DANKO, of Ivyland, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to defraud the United States in federal court this morning. Danko, the principal shareholder of Tri-Ark Industries, Inc., a government contracting firm located in the Philadelphia area, admitted to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the repatriation of nine stolen 18th century paintings to the Republic of Peru.
