News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARIUS WILLIAMS, age 23, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday for his participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the “Young Melph Mafia" or “YMM." U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt sentenced WILLIAMS to 156 months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that BILLY DON FULLER, age 48, of Spiro, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 262 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Public Involvement Sought to Celebrate Fort Union's 50th Anniversary and the National Park Service's 2016 centennial.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “An Overview of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Missions". April 15, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The Subcommittee is meeting this afternoon to review how the Coast Guard allocates its assets and...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) issued statements strongly opposing efforts by Republicans to overturn anti-discrimination bills that protect workplace equality, reproductive choice, and educational equality in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRANDON WATKINS, age 31, a resident of Hammond, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to distribution of cocaine and possession and sale of a stolen firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) today introduced bipartisan legislation to permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Act. Over its 50-year history, the LWCF has come to be recognized as America’s most important conservation program. Without congressional action, the program’s current authorization will expire at the end of September.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - U.S. Magistrate Judge George W. Cannon today issued an order detaining Nicolas Mena, 34, of St. Croix, who was arrested Friday on a criminal complaint charging him with one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Mena made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Cannon on Friday after his arrest, and had his detention hearing on Monday.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: The Committee approved bipartisan legislation today to require the withdrawal of the Administration’s flawed proposed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, a bill to address the rising costs of disasters in the United States and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) capabilities and programs, as well as other measures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill N. Nettles, stated today that two Aiken men, Jesse James Quarles, 34, and Kenneth Islar, 29, were sentenced in federal court in Columbia, each on charges of felon in possession of a firearm, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Chairman Ryan Statement on Tax Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) offered a bipartisan amendment at the HELP Committee markup of the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 to improve and expand early learning programs. The amendment would create a...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in an assault, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant possessed over 600 images of Child Pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Chairman Conaway and thank you for holding today’s hearing to continue the Committee’s review of SNAP.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: As part of the Extreme Mustang Makeover on April 24-25 in Queen Creek, Ariz., the Bureau of Land Management will be offering wild horses and burros for adoption.About 15 untrained wild horses and five trained burros will be available for adoption from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on each day of the two-day event.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: Jeffrey Gardner and Stuart Voigt charged with using real estate scheme to steal millions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Flavio Guzman, a/k/a ADanny Torres," of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with one count of illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about March 27, 2015, Guzman, an alien, and a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about May 5, 2011, and Nov. 19, 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 15, 2015
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Two workers in the Idaho Falls area were killed in separate incidents when the vehicles they were working under fell from their makeshift supports and crushed them. The incidents occurred within a two-week period and within three miles of one another. Since Sept. 1, 2014, five of the nine workplace deaths in Idaho involved workers who were crushed under or by vehicles.
