News from September 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee and Co-chair of the Senate Climate Action Task Force, issued the following statement on the need for action on climate change.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA -The public is invited to attend any of several meetings next week to learn more about and provide comment on a proposed action to restore the fisher (Pekania pennanti) to the southwestern and northwestern Cascades of Washington State, including Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Parks.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA: Springfield Armory NHS announces new days of operation Wednesday through Sunday November 1stthrough Memorial Day9:00AM -5:00 PM. Starting June 1st through October 31stthe Museum resumesa seven day a week operation from9:00 AM-5:00 PM. Tuesdays are designated "education day" and devoted to education programs and teacher professional development. Museum admission and school programs are free of charge.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - A new report released today by the Department of the Interior's Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor finds that projected changes in temperature and precipitation, combined with a growing population, will have significant impacts on water supplies, water quality, fish and wildlife habitats, ecosystems, hydropower, recreation and flood control, in California's Central Valley this century.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Conspirators used stolen identities to withdraw money from compromised bank accounts.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Based on strong interest and several requests from tribal entities across the Bering Straits region, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy and the Tribal Energy Program hosted a Community- and Facility-Scale Renewable Energy Project Development and Finance workshop in Nome, Alaska...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, woman today admitted her role in defrauding the United States Department of the Treasury of more than $900,000 in income tax return checks, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man charged with Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer pled guilty and was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Two members of the Ironworkers Local 401, Francis Sean O’Donnell and William Gillin pleaded guilty today to RICO conspiracy, arson, and related charges in United States District Court before the Honorable Michael Baylson. Sentencing hearings are scheduled for Jan. 13, 2015 for Francis Sean O’Donnell and for Jan. 14, 2015 for William Gillin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Discussed Northern District of New York’s Aggressive Civil Frauds Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man and woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Destin Whitmore has pleaded guilty to threatening and extorting teen girls with sexually explicit images of themselves, and to distributing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal jury today found Hubert Rotteveel, 52, of Dixon, guilty of one count of mail fraud affecting a financial institution relating to his role in a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raymondville, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) announced two staff changes for the Committee today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession of a Firearm with Altered or Obliterated Serial Number and Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must take bold and innovative action to combat more than $5 billion in fraudulent identity theft tax refunds, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report, requested by leaders on the Senate Finance and Aging Committees...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced today that Stokley Austin, age 33, and Donald Jones, Jr., age 33, both residents of Marrero, Louisiana, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ivan L.R. Lemelle to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Murdo, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child, Abusive Sexual Contact, and Sexual Abuse of a Minor, as a result of a four-day federal jury trial in Pierre, South Dakota. The trial ran September 9 through Sept. 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON ? The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) announced that on Sept. 17, 2014, Matthew Nelson was found guilty of Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance (methamphetamine). On Sept. 18, 2014, Nelson was sentenced to a term of 63 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas department of Criminal Justice.
