News from May 2016
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PAGO PAGO, American Samoa - The National Park of American Samoa will offer free ranger led Saturday hikes from June through August. Free shuttles will transport hiker's roundtrip from Pago Pago to the trails. All hikes will begin at 8 am and last three-to-five hours. Interested participants are required to sign up in advance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Orlando Gutierrez (619) 546-6958.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge Timothy Gallagher of the FBI’s Newark Division announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH. - A resident of Allegheny Count, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 240 months, followed by 10 years supervised release, on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting public comments on an Invasive Plant Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) for 15 national parks in the greater Washington D.C. region through June 9, 2016. Comments are accepted online or by mail.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on the release of the majority’s FY2017 Defense Appropriations bill.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement today on the United States Trade Representative’s announcement that it was taking China back to the World Trade Organization (WTO) for keeping tariffs in place on American poultry products that are not permitted by WTO rules...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: A Pennsylvania State Senator and a Pennsylvania Democratic Party Official were charged in a federal indictment for their involvement in a bribery and fraud scheme related to the 2011 election for Democratic Ward Leader for Philadelphia’s Eighth Ward.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sent letters to the Secretaries of State for Nevada and Wyoming inquiring about anonymous shell companies in both states - over 1,000 in Nevada and 24 in Wyoming -- with ties to the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting public comments on an Invasive Plant Management Plan and Environmental Assessment (plan/EA) for 15 national parks in the greater Washington D.C. region through June 9, 2016. Comments are accepted online or by mail.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: As part of a voluntary agreement, Indiana-based American Commercial Lines, Inc. (ACL), and its wholly-owned subsidiary, ACBL Transportation Services, LLC (ACBLTS), have paid the United States $805,440.00 in civil penalties to resolve Clean Water Act (CWA) violations, Acting United States Attorney James L. Porter announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Anthony Floyd Hemphill, 39, and his father, William Hemphill, 58, both of Crestview, Florida, were sentenced today after pleading guilty in February 2016 to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud non-profit organizations of more than $300,000. Anthony...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Clarksburg residents were sentenced today for selling cocaine and prescription drugs near local playgrounds, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON, PA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on May 5, 2015, David Sandy Lee Parks, age 60, of New Haven, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to six bank robberies, including two bank robberies in Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: ERIE, PA. - A former resident of Wickliffe, Ohio, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of bank robbery and Hobbs Act robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Boston - A Malden man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to robbing the Hingham Institute for Savings Bank in October 2015.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Frederick, MD - Grab your magnifying glass and explore nature in Monocacy National Battlefield, like never before! On May 20-21, National Parks across the country, including Monocacy National Battlefield will participate in the National Parks BioBlitz. BioBlitz is a fun, fast-paced biological survey...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Tonia Bright (53, Tampa) to two years in federal prison for obtaining information from a protected computer for a fraudulent purpose. The Court also ordered her to forfeit $29,057 and to pay restitution totaling $166,026, which are the proceeds traceable to the offenses.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - The Bureau of Land Management’s Arctic Field Office today announced the closure of winter overland tundra travel for the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) effective at 12:01 a.m., Tuesday, May 10, 2016.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2016
News Release: CARSON CITY, Nev. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the city of Fernley have cancelled the
