News from October 2017
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Fall Prescribed Burning at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - Acting Assistant Attorney General Chad A. Readler and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Zoladz Construction Company Inc. (ZCCI), Arsenal Contracting LLC (Arsenal), and Alliance Contracting LLC (Alliance), all of Alden, NY, along with two owners, John Zoladz...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Doctor Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud Conspiracy for Role in $19 Million Detroit Area Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national charged with an immigration crime pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces winter events at Lake Berryessa in Napa County. All activities are free of charge and children are welcome, however those under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Bart James Ellis, 44, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $900,000 in restitution. Ellis had previously pleaded guilty to money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Volunteers are welcome from 8 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 7, to help the Bureau of Land Management cleanup public lands and collect trash near Byers Pass Road, southeast of Susanville.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that on Sept. 11, 2017, in federal court, RICKY JAY BALL, 40, of Greenville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon, altering a military discharge certificate, and two counts of obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant’s sentence includes an additional year for numerous violations of supervised release conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Alfonso Mercado-Cruz, 32, of Chiapas, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 151 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in January 2017 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Harold Holzer currently serves as the Jonathan F. Fanton Director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute and has authored, co-authored, or edited 52 books. Holzer recently received the prestigious 2017 Empire State Archives and History Award from the New York State Archives Partnership...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DAVID KLIMENKO, age 29, of Houma, pled guilty today to Failure to Register as a Convicted Sex Offender and Distribution of Child Pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Uncompahgre Field Office released the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Bull Mountain Unit Master Development Plan, providing direction for the development of approximately 19,670 acres of federal and private mineral estate near the town of Paonia, Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricane Irma damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - More than 252 NPS employees from 91 national parks and offices across 36 states continue to support parks in South Florida and the Atlantic Coast to help them ready for reopening. Parks plan to open more areas throughout...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced William Lee (38, Lehigh Acres) to 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to forfeit his cellphone, which was used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging three individuals and two Virginia-based companies with unlawful cigarette smuggling, Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Chief Randolph J. Bernard announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Vale, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with False Claim.
By State Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed the Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (H.R. 1918). The legislation opposes loans at international financial institutions for the Government of Nicaragua unless the Government of Nicaragua takes effective steps to hold free, fair, and transparent elections.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - Acadia National Park’s Foundation Document is now available online. The Foundation Document serves as the underlying guidance for all management and planning decisions in Acadia. It describes the core mission of the park by identifying its purpose, significance, fundamental and important...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 3, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Wheeling, West Virginia men were indicted by a federal grand jury of unlawful possession on a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
