News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. Today the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced funding awards to six law enforcement agencies in Kansas aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting, law enforcement positions. Nearly $124 million will be awarded nationally, including $704,755 in Kansas.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: An environmental analysis and review process for a proposal to continue lake trout suppression on Quartz Lake and begin lake trout removal and bull trout conservation in the Logging Lake drainage in Glacier National Park’s North Fork District has been completed, and a decision was signed by the National Park Service Intermountain Regional Director to move forward with the project. The project is located in an area of recommended wilderness.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13) applauded the enactment of the “Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2014" (H.R. 4323), which President Obama signed into law yesterday. This law authorizes funding of nearly $194 million for each of Fiscal Years 2015-2019 for the Department of Justice to administer various grants, including the Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Grant Program, to assist state and local law enforcement agencies in solving rape and other violent crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - As the changing color of the leaves outside denote the arrival of cooler weather, the staff at Andersonville National Cemetery would like to remind the public of the following seasonal changes to the floral decoration policy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 30, 2014 - Brice N. Marchbanks, 32, of Nashville, Tennessee, was found guilty yesterday by a federal jury of multiple drug trafficking and firearms offenses, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. After a week-long trial, the jury returned ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chad Pyles, 23, of Arlington, Va., was sentenced today to 11 years in prison on federal charges of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned seven indictments against 13 defendants charged with theft of public money and aggravated identity theft, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Today Internal Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA- Two members of the Ironworkers Local 401, Edward Sweeney and Shawn Bailey, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court before the Honorable Michael Baylson. Sentencing hearings have been scheduled for Jan. 27, 2015 and Feb. 2, 2015, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Grants Awarded To Hire School Resource Officers, Reduce Violence And Address Other Critical Law Enforcement Needs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow today sentenced Antonio Edwards, age 41, of Capitol Heights, Maryland, to 20 years in prison, followed by eight years of supervised release; and sentenced co-defendants Shane Elliott Hare, age 27, of Hyattsville, Maryland, to 11 years...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: 10:00 Company Drill. 11:00 Cannon Demonstration. 12:00 p.m. Guided Fort Tour. 1:00 Special Program - The 48th New York Volunteers at Fort Pulaski. 1:30 Quartermaster and Mail Call. 2:00 Cannon Demonstration. 3:00 Bayonet Drill & Musket Demonstration. 4:00 Salute to Veterans Day. Sunday, November 9, 2014. 9:00...
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the bipartisan meeting with His Excellency Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, which was hosted by House Speaker John Boehner.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Four members of an international computer hacking ring have been charged with breaking into computer networks of prominent technology companies and the U.S. Army and stealing more than $100 million in intellectual property and other proprietary data. Two of the charged members have...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Yesterday the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced a funding award to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) aimed at creating or protecting twenty-five law enforcement positions within the Department of Public Safety. Nearly $124 million will be awarded nationally, including $3,125,000 to ALEA over a three year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that a North Ridgeville, Ohio, landlord, Emil Bagi, and his management company, Ridgeway Management Ltd., have entered into a consent decree and have agreed pay $30,000 to resolve claims that they discriminated on the basis of race at the Ridge Plaza Apartments, a 36 unit apartment complex they own and operate in North Ridgeville, Ohio. The settlement must still be approved by the federal district court in the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that the United States of America, on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“U.S. EPA"), secured $285,000 in settlement of a civil lawsuit against GRH Technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Timothy Flanagan, 33, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, for his role in the April 30, 2012, cross burning in front of an interracial family’s home in Minor Hill, Tennessee, the Department of Justice announced. Flanagan pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring with others to threaten, intimidate and interfere with an African-American man’s enjoyment of his housing rights, and one count of interfering with those housing rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Monty Stokes, Special Agent in Charge, United States Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of Inspector General (VA-OIG), announce the indictment of seven defendants for making false statements in connection with fraudulent...
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement following the Centers for Disease Control confirmation of the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed in the United States...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for approving Dominion’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project at Cove Point, Maryland.
