News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, today introduced the Public Lands Service Corps Act of 2015. The bill expands...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Indictment Alleges that Chief Failed to Disclose Economic Interest in Smartphone App Being Developed for Use at Port and Failed to Report Taxable Income to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida- U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday has sentenced Altwan L. Holloway (36, St. Petersburg) to 17 years and six months in federal prison for conspiring with others to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. He pleaded guilty on December 9, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: Superintendent Cheryl Schreier announces the beginning of the pet and smoking boundary establishment at Mount Rushmore National Memorial effective Friday, May 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Hawthorne woman who ran a company that submitted more than $7 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare - primarily for power wheelchairs that were not needed by patients - and caused the government health insurance program to lose nearly $3.5 million has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: A Summit County man who worked at a homeless shelter for youths in Honduras was arrested and charged in federal court with engaging in sex with minor victims.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: AJO, Arizona: On March 14, 2015 a group of 20 scientists, birders, and volunteers teamed up with park biologists to conduct an owl survey at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. The survey was organized by members of the Arizona Field Ornithologists and scientists from the Arizona Game and Fish and National...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, U.S. District Judge Alia Moses sentenced two members of the Los Zetas Drug Trafficking Organization, to life in federal prison for smuggling thousands of kilograms of marijuana and hundreds of assault rifles announced Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Acting United States Attorney; James...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Report Shows Visitor Spending Supported 828 Jobs in Local Economy.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement on the first-quarter GDP report that showed just 0.2 percent growth and a 7.2 percent drop in American exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Maria Houck, 59, of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was charged by indictment, unsealed yesterday, with 12 counts of mail fraud, two counts of theft of government funds, and one count of Social Security fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In this week’s Republican Address, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) discusses advancing America’s trade agenda with more accountability and transparency by establishing trade promotion authority. The address concludes a busy week, during which the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act was successfully passed by the committee and sent to the full House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced an indictment charging ANTHONY CURTIS HARRIS, 33, and six others with conspiring to traffic cocaine and marijuana into Minnesota from California and Arizona via FedEx and the United States Postal Service.1 Additionally, some members of the conspiracy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a retired Springfield, Mo., police officer was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography. Steven Robert Magruder, 60, of Springfield, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Luke Roderick Lowe, 36, and Marguarite Jean Keicher, 38, of Sitka, Alaska, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage on April 21, 2015, on drug conspiracy and firearms offenses that occurred in Ketchikan, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KAREN ALAMEDDINE, a/k/a “Karen Dean," the former controller of a New York-based non-profit organization whose core mission is to cure genetic illnesses by supporting biomedical research (the “Non-Profit")...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Houston G. Leake, age 70, of Fountain Inn, pled guilty today in federal court in Greenville, to conspiracy to distribute hydrocodone and other controlled substances, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 846.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Adam Hill, 34, of Sanford, Maine, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Portland on Tuesday and charged in two counts with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: The principles will be used to develop a list of species eligible for a risk-based seafood traceability program. This program is a key step in leveling the playing field for legal fishermen. Both the draft principles and a draft list of “at risk" species will be published for public comment in July 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) today sent a letter to the...
