News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Calling all poets and fiction writers! Gettysburg National Military Park's July "Artists in Residence" are hosting a free, hour-long creative writing workshop on Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m.to noon, in the tent at Ranger Program Site #2 behind the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center. The workshop introduces the tradition of American creative writing with an emphasis on researching and composing poems and fiction related to the Civil War.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM -The Valles Caldera Trust (Trust) board of trustees will conduct its final public meeting on Saturday, July 25, 2015, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the Valles Caldera National Preserve. The meeting will be followed by the annual storytelling jamboree held as part of the Trust's weekend-long...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is extending the public review and comment period on the Nobles Grade 3-D Seismic Survey/Plan of Operations (Plan) within Big Cypress National Preserve. The Plan will be available for public review and comment through Aug. 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler for the District of South Dakota, and Christopher C. Myers, Acting United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota, announced the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement (MOU) between the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Multijurisdictional Reentry Services Team at a ceremony at Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Council Chambers in Fort Yates, ND. The ceremony took place on Tuesday July 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: MIAMI- Federal Authorities announced today that the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) for South Florida check cashers to temporarily enhance the identification requirements on customers cashing Federal tax refund checks. The GTO will require check...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Laundered Illegal Proceeds from Marijuana Distribtuion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A truck driver, initially attempting to transport illegal aliens through the Border Patrol (BP) checkpoint, has been ordered to federal prison after authorities found child pornography on his cell phone, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
Release: USDA is committed to improving the health and wellbeing of older adults, ensuring that all older Americans have access to healthy food, and that older adults in rural America have access to housing. Low-income older Americans continue to be an underserved and vulnerable population, due in part to administrative...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Bernard Sanders, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, sent a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Dante S. Giovannetti (50, Orlando) to five years and three months in federal prison for wire fraud. He was also ordered to pay $663,975.61 in restitution. Giovannetti pleaded guilty on April 14, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Gateway. Inspection site: 1401 20th Street South, Birmingham, Alabama 35205. Date citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued citations to the employer on July 10, 2015. The inspection was initiated on Jan. 13, 2015, after the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The results of the July 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Glacier National Park's Citizen Science Program announces two opportunities to help with early detection of invasive plants along park trails: a Noxious Weed Blitz on July 21 and an online training course for the Invasive Plants Citizen Science program. Both opportunities are free of charge and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced today James McConnell, 48, of Gastonia, N.C. to 138 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release on charges stemming from an April 2012 bank robbery, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three Colorado men pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally trafficking in paddlefish caviar after being caught in an undercover operation in the Warsaw, Mo., area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARCELLO TREBITSCH pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to an Information charging him with one count of securities fraud in connection with his operation of a Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following the nomination of Mary Wakefield to be deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorneys Walt Green of the Middle District of Louisiana, Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana, and Kenneth Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana jointly announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice has awarded almost $29 million to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement (LCLC), which is approximately three times the amount of the previous year’s awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Florida men have been indicted by a federal grand jury for harboring illegal aliens working for their labor leasing businesses in Branson, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington woman who participated in a heroin distribution conspiracy in 2012 was sentenced today to five years’ probation, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Kathleen M. Young, 51, previously pleaded guilty in March 2015 to conspiring to distribute heroin. Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers imposed the sentence.
