News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: HEADQUARTERS, TUPELO, MS: The National Park Service (NPS) this week released its Fiscal Year 2015 deferred maintenance statistics for national parks. The $11.9 billion nationwide total was up from the $11.49 billion reported at the end of FY2014. Of the nationwide total, the Natchez Trace Parkway has a backlog of deferred maintenance projects that totals $368,729,866.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is updating its conditions today for flying unmanned aircraft in the area between 15 and 30 miles from Washington, D.C. to clarify differences for various types of unmanned aircraft. As of 12: 1 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 10, the operating procedures will allow model aircraft, commercial and public users to operate in the outer ring of the Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) under specific conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man with several felony convictions who possessed a firearm pleaded guilty today, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Dereck Skylar Brown, 33, entered his guilty plea in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 243,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:In partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center and the Mary Walker Historical and Education Foundation, Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to view "Gateway to Freedom," an exhibit focusing on African American involvement in the Civil War, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York (DEA), and Delano A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: This year Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is celebrating its 50thbirthday while the National Park Service turns 100 years old. Help celebrate our shared heritage at a special quilting program, "A Patchwork of History Handed Down," onSaturday, Feb. 27, from 2:00 pm -3:00 pm, at the Indiana Dunes Visitor Center.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two drug dealers associated with the 7th Street Murda Squad have pled guilty to conspiring to distribute several kilos of cocaine. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the pleas today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - A federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned a ten- count indictment against attorney Luis R. Santos-Baez, charging him with Forgery of a Federal Bankruptcy Court Judge’s signature, obstruction of justice and wire fraud, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Santos-Baez was arrested earlier today by agents from Homeland Security Investigations.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement of $307 million in net income for the first quarter of fiscal year 2016...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) questioned a Republican plan that would completely dismantle the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and devolve Federal responsibility for the air traffic control system by handing it over to a private, not-for-profit board of industry interests and businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Wesley Breeden, 30, of Springfield, Va., pled guilty today to traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Irvine-based immigration attorney has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for obstructing justice in relation to a scheme in which he agreed to help a Chinese national flee from the United States after the woman had been designated as a “material witness" in a criminal investigation into “birthing houses" operating in Southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, returned guilty verdicts against Patricia McGill, 68, of Philadelphia, a registered nurse who took part in a multi-million dollar fraud on Medicare that involved hospice care. The jury found McGill guilty of four counts of health care fraud. The jury acquitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Hector Bienvenido Mateo-Beltre, pleaded guilty today to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute. Mateo-Beltre appeared before United States District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to enter his guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Fourteen Individuals Convicted for Their Participation in Large-Scale Drug Distribution Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Marian Lewis, 49, of Courtland, was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for mail fraud and ordered to pay $176,780 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Sigifredo Bazan, a resident of the McAllen, Texas area, pled guilty in federal district court this afternoon to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 5 kilograms or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine, the Acting United States Attorney for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Christopher Cook, of Bakersfield, agreed to forfeit to the United States approximately 3,804 polymer AR-15 lower receivers manufactured in violation of federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. AR-15 lower receivers are classified as firearms under federal law.
