News from May 2014
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze today announced the appointment of Ruth Welch as the BLM Colorado State Director. Welch most recently served as Director of the agency’s National Operations Center in Denver. She has been acting State Director in Colorado since February.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that four Greenbrier County residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in connection with heroin trafficking. Those indicted and subsequently arrested are.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Six defendants have been sentenced to prison as a result of a federal drug investigation in metropolitan Kansas City dubbed Operation Broken Bone, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Stealing Veteran’s Benefits. CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Amy Greeley, 43, of Newfields, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 12 months and one day in federal prison after pleading guilty to one count of misappropriating a veteran’s benefits and using them for...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - Felix Gee Wan Tom, age 40, of Honolulu, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to six months of imprisonment for transmission of wagering information, money laundering and filing a false tax return. Tom also forfeited over $4 million in assets, including...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, May 19, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEROME R. THOMAS, 22, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: “Once again the men and women of this office and the FBI have brought a notorious terrorist before the bar of American justice and once again the men and women of an American jury, having weighed the evidence, have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We are gratified that the jury has returned...
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Glacier National Park visitors are welcome this holiday weekend, with many services and facilities available, but reminded that in some places of the park the transition from winter is slow.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - One individual was killed and more than 15 people were rescued in separate incidents at Lake Mead National Recreation Area May 18.
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process leading to a #CommActUpdate with the release of a white paper focused on competition policy. Last year, Upton and Walden...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Bluefield, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that three Mercer County men pled guilty in Bluefield to federal drug charges. Steven Eugene Champ, 41, of Matoaka, West Virginia, pled guilty to distribution of hydromorphone, admitting that on Sept. 24, 2012, he distributed...
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent letters to the Department of Health and Human Services, Serco, Inc., Accenture, and CGI regarding reports that inaccurate subsidy payments may have been made to more than one million Americans through the health care law.
By US DOT Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today sent a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the memoranda announcing that the Agency will not have the results of an analysis to be included in scientific assessments in support of EPA's lowered ozone standard before the Clean Air Act Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Ozone Panel meeting.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Emmert: We are writing to request information about the practices of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the responsibilities of its member institutions of higher education to provide rigorous academic opportunities and instruction to its “student-athletes.". One of the...
By US DOT Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, made the following statement regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final Clean Water Act (CWA) section 316(b) rule, which impacts cooling water systems at power plants and industrial facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of St. Marys, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months in jail and ordered to make restitution in the amount of $414,649.39 on his conviction of wire fraud and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today continued the process leading to a #CommActUpdate with the release of a white paper focused on competition policy. Last year, Upton and Walden...
By EPA Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Over the past several months, Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have sent numerous letters to the Obama administration regarding concerns surrounding the implementation and effects of the health care law. Despite the administration’s assertions that the health care law is finished business, these...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Neptune, N.J., man today admitted his involvement in a 24-hour crime spree that took place in five separate shore-area towns and involved the shooting of a cab driver and a number of armed robberies, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2014
News Release: Defendant Currently Serving 7+ Year State Sentence For Dealing Child Pornography.
