News from August 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: August 5: Centennial Artist in Residence Program Presents: Through an Artist's Eyes - Discover the many ways that nature inspires art in these weekly presentations by one of the park's Artists in Residence. This week features the photography of Ben Panter. 7:30 p.m. Beaver Meadows Visitor Center.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released final environmental documents for the proposed issuance of a five-year Warren Act approval for conveyance of up to 1,000 acre-feet of non-Central Valley Project water per year from the Kaweah River through the Friant-Kern Canal to the Stone Corral Irrigation District.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Dubuque, Iowa - The “Excellence in Victim Services" conference co-sponsored by seven U.S. Attorneys’ Office and the Iowa Organization for Victim Services starts on Wednesday. U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau will join the conference and make some opening remarks.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: A new reference material that will help laboratories accurately measure radioactive contamination in seawater is now available from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Resource Advisory Council will meet Aug. 19 by teleconferenceAugust RAC AgendaThe public may listen to the meeting at the first floor conference room of the Wyoming State Office, 5353 Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming, beginning at 8 a.m. and concluding no later...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced another trio of bills designed to improve the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program. The bills put beneficiaries first by establishing new methods to prevent fraud, improve accountability, and provide more...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Jonathon Giddens, 24, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 360 months in prison, followed by lifetime of supervised release for production of child pornography. The court directed that this sentence was to run consecutively to the sentence imposed on Giddens in a related case in the City of Virginia Beach.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Copper Center, Alaska- The Viking Lodge and Caribou Creek Public Use Cabins along the Nabesna Road have reopen for use.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Six residents of South Florida were charged with conspiring to defraud the United States government by stealing millions of dollars and property intended for the construction of low-income housing developments.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Third Degree Burglary and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on July 27, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - Sherin Thawer, a Dallas attorney, appeared in federal court this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Irma C. Ramirez and pleaded guilty to a federal felony offense stemming from her work in representing aliens, that is, non-U.S. citizens, before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS), announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Joaquin Broncho, 18, of Fort Hall, Idaho, has been indicted in the Aug. 29, 2014, stabbing death of Joey Runninghorse, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined legislation he introduced to reform the Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) Program and reiterated the immediate need to address issues facing the DI program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment in connection with an international investigation into an alleged scheme to extort numerous children into producing child pornography, also referred to as “sextortion". Specifically...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 4, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - An indictment was unsealed earlier today charging former Pine Lawn Lieutenant STEVEN BLAKENEY with criminal civil rights charges arising from his arrest in 2013 of a candidate for the office of Mayor of the City of Pine Lawn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 27-year-old man from the North Houston area appeared in federal court this morning on charges of sexual exploitation of a child, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Christopher Lynn Persky was arrested over the weekend upon the filing of a federal criminal complaint alleging he produced child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: August 1-7 is National WIC Breastfeeding Week WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is recognizing state and local agencies of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (more commonly known as WIC) that excel in offering education and support for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: A Troy, Alabama, man was sentenced to prison today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Bank EKI Genossenschaft (Bank EKI) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 3, 2015
News Release: An indictment was recently unsealed in Houston charging four men with various offenses based on their roles in smuggling pet products with counterfeit labels into the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson ...
