News published on Federal Newswire in July 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: Memphis, TN - Jerry Dennis, 68, of Horn Lake, MS, pled guilty today to a one-count information charging conspiracy to launder approximately $250,000 in bribe payments received from Afghan contractors in Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee Edward L. Stanton III.

By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-UT), today highlighted a new GAO report entitled, “MEDICAID: Assessment of Variation among States in Per-Enrollee Spending," which details variations in state Medicaid...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: On July 16, at the fourth and final meeting of the White House State, Local, and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resilience, the Administration announced the new Tribal Climate Resilience Program to help tribes prepare for climate change.

By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, July 23, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Modernizing the Business of Environmental Regulation and Protection."

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Two British nationals were sentenced today in New Haven federal court for conspiring to provide and providing material support to terrorists, including the solicitation of...

By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing with witnesses Kay Daly and Joyce Greenleaf from the Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General. HHS OIG recently released reports detailing inconsistencies in applications...

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: The Lone Mountain Fire is burning in the North Cascades National Park approximately five miles northwest of Stehekin, Washington in the Boulder Creek drainage.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that National Park Service (NPS) contract crew, Team Henry Enterprise, LLC, has completed repair work on the NPS Ocracoke pier and docks in Silver Lake, damaged during Hurricane Sandy, and the area is open for use to the general public.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014

News Release: BARTLETT COVE, ALASKA-Site preparation will begin in August on a traditional tribal house on the shoreline of Bartlett Cove in Glacier Bay National Park. The $2.9 million contract was awarded recently to P.K. Builders of Ketchikan (Alaska). The project is expected to be finished in the summer of 2016.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Defendant Purchased Expensive Automobiles, Furs and Other Luxury Items.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: STATESBORO, GA -- Robert Beecher,60, from Reidsville, Georgia, was indicted in June by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah for possessing several firearms as a convicted felon. Beecher faces a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison if it is determined that he has three qualifying felony convictions and is classified as an Armed Career Criminal under federal law.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Boston - A Hudson man was sentenced today for conspiring to defraud the government in connection with the renovation of the John W. McCormack Post Office and Courthouse in Boston.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Jerry Elmo Hartsoe, age 57, of West Columbia, James Chappel Dew, age 59 of North Myrtle Beach, and Mark Shannon Manuel, age 49 of Franklin, Tennessee, were sentenced to 10 years incarceration by United States District...

By USDA Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, July 15, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the award of more than $2.5 million in grants to develop wood energy teams in 11 states and an additional $1.25 million for nine wood energy projects.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Sinclair Broadcast Group and Perpetual Corp. to divest their interests in WHTM-TV, an ABC affiliate in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in order to proceed with Sinclair’s proposed $963 million acquisition of Perpetual. The department said that, without the required divestiture, prices for broadcast television spot advertising would likely increase in parts of central Pennsylvania.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Thair Alwan and his son Saill Fadhil, owners and operators of Raleigh, North Carolina, area pizza stores, pleaded guilty today to willfully filing false tax returns in the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Two West Bloomfield, Michigan, residents pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan today, announced the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: Macon Openshaw, 22, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Tena Campbell for the District of Utah to serve 60 months in prison for a bias-motivated attack at a local synagogue and for two unlawful gun possession charges. Openshaw was further ordered to pay $1,969 in restitution to the synagogue to repair the damage caused by his actions and was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has released a Best Practices Guide to Reform HIV-Specific Criminal Laws to Align with Scientifically-Supported Factors. This guide provides technical assistance regarding state laws that criminalize engaging in certain behaviors without disclosing known ...

By Labor Gazette | Jul 15, 2014

News Release: BISMARCK, N.D. — Since January 2012, 34 North Dakota workers in the oil and gas and construction industries have died because of work-related injuries. During that period, their deaths accounted for 87 percent of all North Dakota fatalities investigated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational ...