News from June 2016

By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will open the Delta Cross Channel Gates on Friday, June 3, 2016, at approximately 9 a.m. to allow for recreational boating
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Transit Safety Management, Inc., a Georgetown, Mass. consulting company, was sentenced today to making a false statement in connection with its certification for favored contracting status.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Allison C. Lerner, Inspector General of the National Science Foundation (“NSF"), today announced that AQUATIC SENSOR NETWORK TECHNOLOGY, LLC, (“AQUASENT") and several of its officials and employees, namely Dr. Jun-Hong Cui...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Two Bureau of Land Management employees were honored today by the American Recreation Coalition with its annual Legends Awards, which recognize Federal employees' outstanding achievements in promoting recreational opportunities that connect people to the outdoors. Presented annually during Great Outdoors...

By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: During the afternoon hours of July 26th, 2013, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park (NHP) Chief Ranger Dirk Wiley removed his Stetson for the last time and handed in his service revolver. At 4:31 p.m. that day, Park Volunteer Dirk Wiley climbed into the Porsche Boxster convertible of a fellow employee...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Chimney Fire Update. The Chimney Fire was reported to the Bureau of Land Management at approximately 3:30 p.m. on June 1st in the area of Chimney Peak campground. The cause of the fire is under investigation. When firefighters arrived on scene the fire was approximately 30 acres and was growing rapidly...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the return of a rare “Inverted Jenny" stamp to the American Philatelic Research Library...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: HELENA - Ryan Scot Frankforter, 38, of Helena was sentenced to 30 months in prison and 3 years’ supervised release, Deejay Poynter, 37, of East Helena was sentenced to 70 months in prison and 3 years’ supervised release, Calvin Sturdivant Craver, 29, of Dallas, OR was sentenced to 120 months in prison...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Scots and Ulster Scots have emigrated in such numbers that no other European Nation has ever lost such a high proportion of its people.In the early days, these were men and women who left behind them a homeland rich in the oral tradition of song and ballad singing, an inheritance which they carried with...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Tameka O’Hara ( 36, Haines City) with four counts of theft of government money, four counts of making false statements to or concealing material facts from the Social Security Administration, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Cambria County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of health care fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region announced today that Federico Barajas has been selected as the Deputy Regional Director.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced today a California man admitted his role in a conspiracy to traffic approximately 12 kilograms of cocaine from California to New Jersey.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Des Plaines man was sentenced today in federal court by U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala for his role in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana. JEREMIAH N. CLEMENT, 38, of Des Plaines, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, to be followed by 5 years of supervised ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: FBI Recovers Stolen Charles Darwin Letter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Walter Boutwell, age 56, was sentenced today to serve 21 months in prison for failing to update his sex offender registration after moving to Stephentown, New York from Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to illegally obtain and distribute oxycodone in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced James Charlton Davis, III, age 57, of Anderson, South Carolina, today to six years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for wire fraud arising from an elaborate scheme to defraud his employer of at least $240,000. Judge Chuang also ordered Davis to pay restitution of $240,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 20-count indictment today against Mark Merrill Reynolds, 60, of Fresno, charging him with embezzlement, mail fraud, and money laundering, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By State Newswire | Jun 2, 2016
News Release: Dr. Heng-Chia Chang greets Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) at the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation Hospital in Taipei. Forty-five of those injured in the Tainan earthquake in February were brought to the hospital for treatment.