News published on Federal Newswire in April 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Defendant Threatened to Rape and Kill Young Boys.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Brittany Thompson, 26, and Raymond Leonard, 33, both of Fairmont, West Virginia, were convicted in federal court today for their role in manufacturing methamphetamine in Marion County, West Virginia in October 2014, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Devils Tower National Monument will implement a prescribed burn during the week of April 19. Fire management.

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: NEW DELHI, India - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that India complies with international safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and has been granted a Category 1 rating under the FAA’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) program. The announcement was made during a meeting between Secretary Foxx and India’s Minister of Civil Aviation, Ashok Gajapathi Raju in India’s capital city, New Delhi.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who told federal homeland security officials on June 3, 2014, that he had placed explosives under the desks of two federal district court judges in Las Vegas and planned to blow them up, has been sentenced to 75 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging a Mexican national with illegally transporting seven undocumented people, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, convicted tax preparer David Nixon, 50, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of 63 counts of fraud related to the preparation of federal income tax returns. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 7, 2015.

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C.–The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the expansion of the mobile application archiving technology across all major mobile apps ...

By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I congratulate all of the individuals recognized as D.C.’s Top 50 Women in Technology for 2015 by FedScoop, including three distinguished leaders here at the Department of Homeland Security: National Protection and Programs Directorate Under ...

By USDA Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Partnership will enhance military readiness and strengthen rural economies WASHINGTON, April 8, 2015 – The Departments of Agriculture, Defense, and Interior today designated as Sentinel Landscapes Fort Huachuca (Arizona) and Naval Air Station Patuxent River-Atlantic Test Ranges (Maryland). The 2nd and ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: The Department of Justice filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of North Carolina today seeking the arrest and extradition of a former colonel in the Salvadoran army to face charges in Spain related to the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989. Assistant ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Orlando, Florida, based Air Ideal Inc. and its majority owner, Kim Amkraut, have agreed to pay the United States $250,000 to resolve allegations that they made false statements to the Small Business Administration (SBA) to obtain certification as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone) company, the Justice Department announced today. Under the settlement, the defendants must also pay five percent of Air Ideal’s gross revenues over the next five years.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: The leader of a sex trafficking ring pleaded guilty today to charges stemming from his interstate prostitution enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney J. Walter Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI’s New Orleans Division.

By Fed Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on March 17-18, 2015. A summary of economic projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Reserve Bank presidents for the meeting is also included as an addendum to these minutes.

By Commerce News Now | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Good morning. Thank you, Dominic and Karen, for your leadership. And thank you all for joining us today for the first meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa.

By Commerce News Now | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today hosted the first meeting of the President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA) to discuss initial recommendations on ways to strengthen commercial engagement between the United States and Africa. The council, established by President ...

By Labor Gazette | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: Assistant raised dangers of used needles as Dr. N. Terry Fayad allegedly sought cost savings BOSTON, Mass. — It began when Massachusetts dentist Dr. N. Terry Fayad changed his practice's procedure for disposing of contaminated needles. He told those in his Beverly-based office to first remove the protective caps before dropping them into sharps disposal containers, allegedly to fill the containers with more used needles and reduce the frequency and cost of their disposal.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 8, 2015

News Release: WILLISTON, N.D. — Dustin Payne traveled to North Dakota looking for a good job, the opportunity to use his skills and the chance to secure a future for him and his fiancée back in Alabama. Instead, the 28-year-old Marine veteran with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to his credit is dead, the victim of a massive explosion that his Williston employer could have prevented.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on April 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Apr 8, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.