News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Two Cedar Rapids men and one Cedar Rapids woman were sentenced in federal court today for their June 9, 2014, robbery of a drug dealer of his methamphetamine and cash. Leonard Landt, age 28, was sentenced to 77 months’ imprisonment in federal prison. Snofawn Torres, age 22, was sentenced to 44 months’ imprisonment in federal prison. Bart Waddell, age26, was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment in federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), will mark up legislation this week that authorizes United States Coast Guard and Federal Maritime Commission funding levels for two years, and includes provisions to improve Coast Guard mission effectiveness, help modernize the Service’s aging vessels and other assets, and reform U.S. maritime transportation laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), and Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee Ranking Member Jerry Nadler ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo), member of the Senate Finance Committee, today reintroduced the Social Impact Partnership Act, S.1089, legislation that aims to achieve better outcomes in social and public health programs for both beneficiaries and taxpayers.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Early Season Permits Available at Recreation.gov.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Tourism to National Park Units on St. Croix creates $8 Million in Economic Benefits Report shows visitor spending supports 105 jobs in local economy.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today offered to work with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz to update the nation’s energy infrastructure and modernize federal energy policies as part of broad energy legislation she is putting together with the members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Murkowski’s comments came during a full committee hearing focused on the Department of Energy’s recently-released Quadrennial Energy Review (QER).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that the United States Attorney’s Office, in partnership with the University of Washington, Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI), Kittitas County Public Health Department, and Central Washington University, will be hosting a summit meeting to discuss the growing problem of opioid overdose in Eastern Washington.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the release of the State Department's Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former employee of the Social Security Administration was sentenced in federal court today for illegally accessing personal identification information as part of a nearly $10,000 fraud scheme to steal from the government.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was honored today by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) for her support for protecting public lands. The National Park Heritage Award commemorates Murkowski for including national park legislation in a bipartisan lands package she negotiated on the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, in response to news that the National Football League (NFL) plans to voluntarily waive their tax-exempt status and file tax returns as a taxable entity for fiscal year 2015, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-7) issued the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on Medicare audit and appeals...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on Continuing America’s Leadership: The Future of Medical Innovation for Patients. In her opening statement, Murray called for Congress...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: House Natural Resources Committee Democrats have been actively promoting a conservation message every day during Earth Week, and we wanted to share the highlights with you. So far we’ve seen.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former international legal advisor and New York-licensed attorney today admitted his orchestration of a scheme to defraud a foreign nation of more than $3.5 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that LINDA LUE ADAMS, a/k/a LINDA CORLEY, a/k/a LINDA MARTIN, age 68, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for Obstruction of Justice, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1512(c)(2). ADAMS was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $22,687.80.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Two Cedar Rapids men and one Cedar Rapids woman were sentenced in federal court today for their June 9, 2014, robbery of a drug dealer of his methamphetamine and cash. Leonard Landt, age 28, was sentenced to 77 months’ imprisonment in federal prison. Snofawn Torres, age 22, was sentenced to 44 months’ imprisonment in federal prison. Bart Waddell, age26, was sentenced to 57 months’ imprisonment in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, in response to news that the National Football League (NFL) plans to voluntarily waive their tax-exempt status and file tax returns as a taxable entity for fiscal year 2015, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (UT-03) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (MD-7) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Travis Lavar Clark, 35, of Raleigh, N.C., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 51 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Clark’s crime of conviction involved possession of more than 750 grams of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
