News from September 2016

By USDA Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 110,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Charles Moore, 32, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to possessing contraband in the prison. Moore possessed a homemade weapon made up of a pair of scissors, a pen and shoelaces. The weapon was discovered by prison officials when Moore failed to clear a metal detector screening.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price has announced that the rehabilitation of the outdoor amphitheater at Salt Pond Visitor Center in Eastham is underway. Along with major repairs to the Captain Penniman House in Eastham, funded by the National Park Service, Friends of the Cape Cod...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID S. YOUNGER, a neurologist with a private medical practice in Manhattan, was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to four months in prison for tax fraud in connection with his falsely classifying...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Charles Moore, 32, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to possessing contraband in the prison. Moore possessed a homemade weapon made up of a pair of scissors, a pen and shoelaces. The weapon was discovered by prison officials when Moore failed to clear a metal detector screening.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Sunday, Sept. 25, visitors are invited to celebrate the spectacle of raptor (bird of prey) migration in Yellowstone National Park’s Hayden Valley with Yellowstone Raptor Initiative volunteer Katy Duffy. The Hayden Valley Hawk Watch is a spectacular opportunity to observe and learn about raptors, their ecology, and their migration strategies.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SEP 20 - BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Antonio Gordon, 32, of Bangor, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to three years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing cocaine base, commonly known as “crack."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: A physician who practiced in Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison today for writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other controlled medications without medical justification, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department today announced an agreement with the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (LASC) to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) court users will have access to timely and accurate language assistance services.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A California woman caught transporting a significant amount of crystal methamphetamine from California to West Virginia pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Rachel Arlene Garay, 18, of Indio, entered her guilty plea to interstate travel in furtherance of a drug crime.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz announced that William Weinreb has been appointed to serve as First Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Weinreb previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for two years, and was Deputy Chief of the National Security Unit and Coordinator of the Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SEP 20 - BOSTON - In concurrence with National Prescription Opioid and Heroin Epidemic Awareness Week, the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached separate civil settlements with Tufts Medical Center and Eaton Apothecary to resolve allegations of violations of the Controlled Substances (CSA). Today, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reached a $100,000 civil settlement with Tufts Medical Center in connection with the hospital’s negligent recordkeeping of its controlled substances.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif - The Bureau of Reclamation will provide $3.3 million to the Friant Water Authority for its Friant-Kern Canal Reverse Flow Pump-Back Project. The estimated $9.3 million total project will improve the Friant Division’s operational flexibility, including the ability during dry years to recover banked groundwater. It is expected to be completed within three years.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Seminole, Florida, man was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for using phony invoices to defraud multiple factoring businesses, including one based in Bergen County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.

By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wind River/Bighorn Basin District tentatively plans to conduct three prescribed burns and two slash pile burns within the Cody and Worland field office areas this fall. Burns are contingent upon fuel moisture and weather meeting optimal burn conditions.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: The park is excited to announce we will host an interactive new workshop. African Textiles: The Peace Quilt Project workshop will be presented at the park on Oct. 29, 2016 and Nov. 11, 2016 (Veteran's Day). The event will be held from 10:00 a.m. to noon at 1120 US HWY 42 Wilberforce, Ohio. The...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: A Jamaican national was sentenced to 33 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for his participation in a Jamaica based lottery fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former office manager for an independent sporting goods distributor has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $370,000 from her Los Alamitos-based employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raymond Carter, 72, of Rancho Cordova, Calif., pled guilty today to a charge of 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 Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO HURRICANE MATTHEW -JACKSONVILLE, FLA.--- On Saturday, October 8, 2016, the Timucuan Preserve, a unit of the National Park Service, will host a free event called Harvest Day, a special event marking the end of the harvest season at Kingsley Plantation. Harvest Day was a tradition at Zephaniah Kingsley's plantation.