News from April 2015
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: A plan to burn 85 acres of Devils Tower National Monument is cancelled due to unacceptable weather conditions. Fire management officials from the Northern Great Plains Fire Office planned to burn 85 acres near the entrance and east of the Belle Fourche River. Devils Tower National Monument officials cancelled the burn when conditions, dry fuels and high winds, became unfavorable.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 20. Members will discuss legislative language to create a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce. The committee will also continue its review of the ongoing problem of prescription drug and opioid abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: MIAMI - A Martin County resident pleaded guilty yesterday to manufacturing hash oil by using a butane hash oil laboratory in his apartment and to related weapons charges.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of April 20. Members will discuss legislative language to create a 21st century energy and manufacturing workforce. The committee will also continue its review of the ongoing problem of prescription drug and opioid abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph M. Guerra, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant was employed as a clerk in the Licensing Department of the City of Buffalo between July 2013 and Aug. 25, 2014. As part of her duties as a clerk, Collier was responsible for collecting payments in cash and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Cary, Ill. man was charged today in federal court with bank robbery. MICHAEL FETERICK, 45, of Cary, Ill., also known as “Michael Retterly," was charged with the robbery of Fifth Third Bank, 1745 South Eastwood Drive, Woodstock, Ill., on April 15, 2015. According to the complaint, at about...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Nearly 100 volunteers are needed to help with the upcoming BioBlitz and Biodiversity & Cultural Festival at Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, May 15 and 16, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, introduced a bill to uphold a longstanding promise to support health coverage for unemployed and retired workers. The measure renews the Health Coverage Tax Credit, a critical program to strengthen the American workforce and make it more competitive internationally.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: M&M Manufacturing Co. LLC
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on trade priorities following the announcement of a bipartisan, bicameral Trade Promotion Authority bill...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Today the Senate confirmed Russell C. Deyo as Under Secretary for Management at the Department of Homeland Security, by a vote of 95-2. As Under Secretary for Management, Russ will be the number three official in this Department, and oversee ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 The Department of Homeland Security plays a critical role in enforcing trade laws that protect the public health and safety of American consumers. Every day, DHS personnel serving at our nation’s border facilitate billions of dollars in imports ...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: Producers May Need to Take Action to Remain Eligible for Crop Insurance Premium Support WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds farmers that the 2014 Farm Bill requires producers to file a Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Certification form (AD-1026) with their local USDA service center by June 1, 2015, in order to become or remain eligible for crop insurance premium support.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, April 16, 2015 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement: "U.S. agriculture applauds the introduction of Trade Promotion Authority legislation today. We look for quick action by Congress to provide the President with the authority to pursue agreements that ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The ringleader of a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme and former nightclub owner was sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Alabama, for stolen identity refund fraud related crimes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. District Judge James L. Robart today approved a department-wide training program developed by the Seattle Police Department (SPD) and endorsed by the Justice Department, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office and the Federal Court Monitor Merrick Bobb, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury has charged Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, 23, of Columbus, Ohio, with one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to terrorists, one count of attempting to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, and one count of making false statements to the FBI in an indictment returned in the Southern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: A Queens, New York, tax return preparer pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to 38 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns and four counts of filing false personal income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the federal court in Chicago has approved an agreement between the department and Illinois officials to help ensure that military service members, their family members and U.S. citizens living overseas have an opportunity to participate fully in the upcoming ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2015
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging a doctor from Valencia, California, with operating a $6.5 million scheme to defraud the Medicare program by billing Medicare for medical services that were not actually provided. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
