News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Santa Fe, N.M. - In keeping with the Administration’s goals of promoting American’s Energy independence, the Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico State Office’s quarterly oil and gas lease sale resulted in competitive bids for 4,230.56 acres offered on seventeen parcels. One parcel in Roger Mills County in Oklahoma for 6.97 acres did not receive a bid.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Park Management is considering an increase in the camping fee at Bonita Canyon Campground. Currently the camping fee is $12 per site per night, or $6 for Senior, Access, Golden Age and Golden Access passholders. This has been the fee since 2002.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Nokesville man pleaded guilty today to embezzling approximately $19.3 million from his employer, an information technology company headquartered in Reston.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Martinez Fresh Produce LLC satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that four New Hampshire residents, including two alleged motorcycle club members, have been arrested and charged with drug trafficking crimes. One of the four men also has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Peter Gjuraj, 49, of Mooresville N.C., appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer today and pleaded guilty to one count of tax evasion, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy & Commerce Committee covered a lot of ground this week, prepping for the IOT showcase, testing out self-driving vehicles, passing 15 bills (from #SubEnergy and #SubHealth ), and holding hearings examining #FinTech and health care #cybersecurity.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) concluded a wild horse emergency gather on the Antelope Valley Herd Management Area (HMA) located on private land near Bonne Springs, approximately 40 miles southwest of Wendover, NV on June 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A former officer with the Providence Police Department, located in Webster County, Kentucky, was charged by federal grand jury indictment this week, with two counts of willfully depriving an arrestee of his constitutional rights under color of law, and one count of falsifying a document, announced the Justice Department and John E. Kuhn, Jr., United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, June 24-25, the public is invited to witness the power of field artillery that defended the Union garrison during the Siege of 1862. Harpers Ferry NHP's Living History staff will present artillery demonstrations at 1, 2, and 3 p.m., about the battle which led to General Stonewall...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge William H. Steele sentenced Jonathan Jernigan on June 6, 2017. Jernigan was sentenced to 5 years on probation and ordered to pay the total amount of loss, for wire fraud in...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy & Commerce Committee covered a lot of ground this week, prepping for the IOT showcase, testing out self-driving vehicles, passing 15 bills (from #SubEnergy and #SubHealth ), and holding hearings examining #FinTech and health care #cybersecurity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With President Trump’s administration and the Republicans in the Senate threatening to repeal the Affordable Care Act, writing their bill behind closed doors exclusively by men, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) delivers the Weekly Democratic Address. In this week’s address, Wyden makes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A former government contractor was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in a government contract kickback scheme that caused a loss of more than $3.4 million to the U.S. Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Member of International Child Exploitation Conspiracy Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ashley Herrera, 28, of Espanola, N.M., was sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for her conviction on attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A licensed nurse pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to stealing oxycodone pills from a nursing home where she worked and attempting to conceal the theft by replacing the medication with other medications.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TIMOTHY FORBES, 35, of Allentown, Pa., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 228 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a violent kidnapping and jewelry store robbery in April 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Atlanta Special Agent in Charge Nick Annan and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Atlanta Field Office Director Robert M. Del Toro signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the agencies Wednesday...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2017
News Release: The Devils Garden area of Arches National Park, including access to area hiking trails, is scheduled to reopen Friday, June 16th, at 7:00 a.m. after having been closed several weeks for needed road work.
