News from June 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Numerous scientists will be presenting as part of the Centennial Science Behind The Scenery Programs at Rocky Mountain National Park. This series of programs highlights scientific activity and learning in the park. Each week a different scientist conducting research in the park will share their experiences and discoveries. The programs will be held on Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. at the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center and are free and open to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Julio Cesar Esquivel Reyes, 41, of Tolleson, Ariz. was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver to five years in prison and ordered to pay $568,413 in restitution. Reyes previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man and a Smithville, Mo., man were indicted by a federal grand jury today, in separate and unrelated cases involving child pornography. USA v.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Sedro Woolley, WA - Drivers may experience up to 20 minute delays from August 23 to September 7, 2015, as construction begins on the last three miles of the Cascade River Road. The road will be closed to all vehicle and foot traffic from September 8 through late October 2015. The road closure will begin...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. -A former Chief of Staff for the Illinois Department of Public Health, Quinshaunta R. Golden, was sentenced to a federal prison term of eight years (96 months) today for taking bribes and kickbacks related to $13 million in grant and contract funds awarded at her direction and for obstructing justice in a federal grand jury investigation. Golden appeared today before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough in Springfield.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMIE COLEMAN, also known as “City," 24, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in Bridgeport to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a crack cocaine trafficking ring.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - With sweltering temperatures impacting northern Delaware today, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is reminding employers to protect their workers from heat illness.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Washington men who were arrested in in Thomas County with more than 13 pounds of methamphetamine have been indicted on federal drug charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: The annual John Colter Day will be held Monday, June 29, at Colter Bay Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park. Colter explored the vast Yellowstone country during the winter of 1807-08, and was likely the first European to ever travel the region. This marks the eighth year that Grand Teton has offered special presentations to highlight the life of John Colter and the mountain men of the 1800s.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Fourth Defendant to Plead Guilty to Bribery Scheme Involving Tinker Air Force Base and Corpus Christi Army Depot.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators heard testimony Tuesday about Canada’s success at controlling the burden of regulations on citizens and businesses through the use of a “one-in, one-out" rule. “What we’re trying to do is change the culture," said the Honorable Tony Clement, a member of Canada’s Parliament who oversees that country’s regulatory process. Such a change would ensure that legislators and regulators truly understand the costs of the rules they impose.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Luis Ruiz-Aguillon, of Mexico, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to eight months in prison for illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of MALCOLM ROY EVANS, 52, for armed bank robbery, carjacking, attempted carjacking, and forcing another to accompany while fleeing from the scene. On Jan. 22, 2015, EVANS was indicted for these offenses and, following a four-day trial, a jury found EVANS guilty on June 18, 2015, of all counts of the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On June 19, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a superseding indictment against 22 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: In El Paso yesterday, 43-year-old Blanca Arcelia Ramos Estrada, owner of Blanca and Sons Tax Service in El Paso, pleaded guilty to preparing a false 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 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Noto, who handled the case, stated that the defendant used a telephone to order various synthetic controlled substance analogues. Snover ordered the synthetic drugs for Charles Fitzgerald and others at the 420 Emporium located in Batavia, NY. A total of $771,109 in United States currency was seized during the execution of a search warrant at the residence Snover shared with Fitzgerald on West Hills Estates in Rochester on July 25, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Barry Stephen Robinson, age 65, of Accokeek, Maryland, today to a year and a day in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, in connection with a bribery scheme perpetrated in 2014 while Robinson was Chief of the...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Water hardness can influence the development of columnaris disease in catfish, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) spoke on the importance of trade, and Trade Promotion Authority, to American manufacturing. Watch the full speech here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HEATHER ALFONSO, 42, of Middlebury, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to receiving kickbacks in relation to a federal healthcare program.
