News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Morgan City man pleaded guilty to stealing loan money from a federally funded nonprofit.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: The park is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit at Islesford Historical Museum titled, "Boats &Buoys: Lobstering on Little Cranberry Island," which will run through October 16 and return for the 2016 summer season with additional exhibits for the Acadia Centennial.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - The Bureau of Reclamation awarded Yellowstone Electric Company of Montana a $1.3 million contract to replace the unit breaker and modify the excitation system for the generator at Fontenelle Powerplant near LaBarge, Wyoming, on September 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Failed to report earnings and pay income taxes on $386,183.67 during a six year period and overstated business expenses of $581,519.91.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Power Outage Planned at National Park Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Raytosha Elliott, a former contracting official with the Georgia National Guard, and the owners of two vendor companies have been sentenced to federal prison for a corruption scheme wherein Elliott awarded contracts to the vendors in exchange for illegal kickbacks.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to mark up and vote on bipartisan legislation reauthorizing Mandatory Price Reporting, the National Forest Foundation Act and the U.S. Grain Standards Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Carmen Dozier, 39, of Rutland, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to 15 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to wire fraud. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford also ordered that...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ-La Posada Hotel and Gardens will co-host with the Winslow Arts Trust, Petrified.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Former Owner Paula Butterfield Sentenced to One Year and One Day in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Albert H. Hines, 50, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 10 years in prison by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard, for receiving child pornography. Hines will also be required to serve 10 years of supervised release once he is released from prison. Additionally, he will be required to register as a convicted sex offender.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: Ahead of this week’s full committee vote to say #Yes2Energy, the Obama administration today signaled opposition to H.R. 702, bipartisan legislation authored by Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) that would lift the nearly 40-year-old ban on crude oil. The Washington Free Beacon reports, “In the wake...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Connecticut executive was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston on charges that he sold confidential business information regarding the wireless industry to an analyst at a Boston-based financial services firm.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $5 million in funding to 11 states to advance innovative approaches for local clean energy development that will reduce energy bills for American families and businesses, protect the environment by reducing carbon emissions, and increase our nation’s national energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lafayette man was sentenced to 54 months in prison for possessing eight stolen firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Keith David Killingsworth, 38, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in federal court to possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Killingsworth was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 18, 2015.
By State Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, once again condemned a partisan effort to deny the American people an up-or-down vote on a resolution disapproving of the Iran nuclear deal. Despite a bipartisan majority in Congress opposed to the agreement, Senate Democrats for the second time refused to allow a final vote on the resolution of disapproval.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: An admitted drug user who possessed a weapon was sentenced yesterday to over four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Shreveport optometrist pleaded guilty Monday to writing prescriptions for non-patients and non-medical purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2015
News Release: BUTTE - A federal judge sentenced two defendants on Tuesday for attempting to transport more than five pounds of methamphetamine into Montana. Ismael Melin, 40, of Long Beach, California was sentenced today to 87 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Jose...
