News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Sean Wilson, age 46, of Randallstown, Maryland today to 11 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey today sentenced James Fidel Sotolongo (49, Port Orange), Stephanie Musselwhite (52, Daytona Beach), and Christopher Mencis (53, Longwood) for their respective roles in a mortgage fraud scheme. Sotolongo was sentenced to eight years...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NAZARIO HERNANDEZ-MALDONADO, age 53, from Mexico, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry into the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $13 million in funding to help communities across the country reduce market and policy barriers to solar deployment and recognize communities for taking the initiative to go solar. This investment will make it faster, cheaper, and easier for Americans to install affordable solar energy systems and spur solar deployment nationwide by decreasing costs and supporting communities' efforts to transform solar energy markets.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: In the spirit of the eminent radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site will be commemorating World Radio Day, Feb. 13, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: In the spirit of the eminent radio pioneer Reginald Fessenden, Fort Raleigh NHS will be commemorating World Radio Day, Feb. 13, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Plans are underway at Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt National Park and other sites throughout the country to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016. President Obama sent a request to...
By State Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
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 Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) will travel to Corpus Christi, Hidalgo and McAllen, Texas this weekend to meet with ranchers, sheriffs and Border Patrol agents as a way of examining the challenges associated with securing...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A man who was convicted of multiple fraud, aggravated identity theft, and tax charges in 2013, pled guilty today to attempting to obstruct the federal government’s efforts to forfeit his real property to be used as restitution for his fraud victims. Randy Beltramea, age 50, from...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: ST JOHN -Virgin Islands National Park is pleased to announce the gift of just over 3.5 acres of land at Haulover on the east end of St John. The property, which includes lands bounded by Haulover Bay on the north shore to Round Bay on the south shore, was donated by the non-profit St John Land Conservancy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: A Dearborn pharmacist was sentenced yesterday to six years in prison for conspiracy to illegally distribute prescription pills and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: LEE COUNTY, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway National Scenic Trail section between milepost 261.8 (Chickasaw Village Site) and milepost 265.5 (Beech Springs Road Area) will be closed to all trail users beginning February 9, 2015, for a period of 30 days. The closure is due to improvements to the railroad crossing where the National Scenic Trail crosses the track south of McCullough Boulevard. The trail section will be posted closed for public notice.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - U.S. Senate education committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) today released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Join us on Saturday, February 14thfrom 9:30AM to 11:30 AM for the Great Backyard Bird Count and get involved as a citizen scientist! Thousands of people worldwide contribute to scientific research about bird populations and critical issues affecting birds. We'll begin the program indoors with basic bird...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Feb. 11, 2015, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will release an update to the High Risk List, an inventory of government operations vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. GAO updates the High Risk List every two years at the beginning of a new Congress to focus national attention on these critical areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, U.S. District Court Judge L. Scott Coogler sentenced Pamela Morris, former secretary of a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Ozark, Alabama, to 10 months in prison and three years of supervised release for committing perjury during a grand jury’s investigation into a racially motivated cross-burning.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A local man has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months imprisonment to be served consecutive to the defendant’s other federal sentence, and followed by three years supervised release, on his conviction of escape, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Following a three day trial, a jury found convicted felon Joseph Garrett, 50, of Haywood, West Virginia, guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
