News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, 42-year-old Adela Perez was sentenced to 28 months in federal prison for filing a fraudulent tax return announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge William Cotter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland -Peter Flynn, age 61, of Silver Spring, Maryland pleaded guilty today to possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Dr. Nicole Lurie, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, seeking details regarding the administration’s “emergency preparedness in response to the spread of avian influenza."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on the EPA’s Mercury and Air Toxics (MATS) rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that on June 24, 2015, a grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment charging the following individuals with federal narcotics offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Josh J. Minkler, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana, announced today a civil settlement with United Home Healthcare, Inc. and B&L Personal Services, Inc. (known collectively as “United"). Both companies are located in Indianapolis and are owned and operated by Byron and Laura Harris. The settlement will result in a total payment of $1.5 million to the United States and the State of Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Kevin Mooneyham, 47, former Chief of Police for the City of Woodbury, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Kevin H. Sharp, to theft of federal program funds, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. Mooneyham was indicted on April 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - - Jose Luis Montoya-Salazar, aka Rafael Salazar-(Montoya), 42, of Mexico City, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with Jimmy Gil, 35, of Shafter, and Luis Ricardo Eslava-(Eslava) 42, of Sinaloa, Mexico, to import, distribute, and possess with intent to distribute 38 kilograms, or about 84 pounds, of cocaine. Montoya also agreed to the forfeiture of over $3.1 million in cash that drug agents seized during the investigation of the case.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: The Painted Desert Quilts Shop at 206 Navajo Blvd. downtown Main Street Holbrook will be host to Artists-in-Residence Bill Meek and Denny Peterson on July 4th, 2015 between 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. They will have several of their quilts on display for a presentation and a demonstration detailing their methods of quilting and what has inspired them in their craft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Victim Was Shot in Attempted Robbery of a Laptop.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: There are many ways to experience parks and outdoors spaces, one of which is by tuning into the sounds of music. In concert with the National Park Service’s Find Your Park campaign, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is hosting a performance by musician Dana Falconberry at the D. H. Day Campground amphitheater at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 2, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Moab, Utah - Due to very dry conditions and increasing fire danger in Southeast Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep national monuments.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists have a plan for using a U.S. cotton production byproduct to make biobased interior wood adhesives. The byproduct, cottonseed meal, is the leftovers after lint and oil are extracted from cotton seed. The meal is typically fed to ruminant livestock, such as cows, or used as fertilizer.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: GRAND COULEE, Washington - The Bureau of Reclamation is alerting visitors planning to camp along the Lake Roosevelt shoreline over the July 4 weekend to be aware of potential dangers from rising lake levels. Lake Roosevelt is impounded by Grand Coulee Dam located on the Columbia River about 90 miles west of Spokane, Washington.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Construction on the Nisqually to Paradise Road will cease over the upcoming holiday weekend, July 3-5. While visitors can normally expect to experience delays on weekdays during daylight hours, there will be no work this Friday, July 3.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue Team members responded to two separate incidents yesterday, Sunday, June 28.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: A short stretch of the Great Beach will be temporarily closed to protect nesting snowy plovers from Friday, July 3 through Sunday, July 5. The closure will be established between North Beach parking lot and the mouth of Abbotts Lagoon. Temporarily closing a portion of the Great Beach will minimize disturbance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Medical Provider Resolves Claims Regarding Alleged Failure to Supervise Oncological Treatment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: Derek Kennedy. Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on June 23, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2015
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced Keith Vinson to 18 years in prison for his role in a scheme involving the failed land development deal of Seven Falls, a golf course and luxury residential community in Henderson County, N.C., announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S.
