News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: In Waco, 41-year-old Calista Angelique Amani of San Antonio faces up to four years in federal prison after pleading guilty this afternoon to fraudulently obtaining Hydrocodone, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, today recognized the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) efforts to help stop offshore reinsurance tax avoidance by issuing formal guidance. Wyden has repeatedly called upon the IRS over the past year to clarify rules that would prevent hedge funds from operating as offshore insurance companies in order to avoid paying taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) extended the comment period for the Bering Sea-Western Interior Resource Management Plan (RMP) to allow additional time for review and comment on the Preliminary Alternative Concepts and associated resource inventory reports. The current outreach period began Feb. 22 and was extended to May 31in response to requests from interested tribes and organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Glen Edward Meyers, 57, of Shasta Lake, was sentenced on Wednesday by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to eight years in prison for conspiring to distribute marijuana and conspiracy to launder money, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Michael Smith, of Mishawaka, Indiana, was sentenced today for tax evasion and structuring financial transactions.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 23, 2015 - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, along with Sens. Tim Scott, R-S.C., Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, Chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, today led 159 of their Senate and House colleagues in urging Interior Secretary Sally Jewell to increase access to the energy resources on our nation’s outer continental shelf (OCS).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Sissonville, West Virginia man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Jamie Ray Green, 32, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to using a phone to facilitate drug trafficking. Green admitted that on Feb. 10, 2015, he received...
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today opened Senate debate of his bipartisan legislation, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, that would require the president to submit any final nuclear deal with Iran to Congress before being ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A 38-year-old resident of Farwell, Michigan, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for strangulation of a dating or intimate partner for separate assaults he committed against two different girlfriends, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This afternoon, a federal judge in the District of New Mexico sentenced two Chinese nationals for conspiring to violate the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) by scheming to illegally export defense articles with military application to the People’s Republic of China, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez of the District of New Mexico.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: TUMACÁCORI, AZ -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 38,017 visitors to Tumacácori National Historical Park in 2014 spent $2,132,100 in communities near the park.That spending supported 32 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $2,558,000.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: The deadline to apply for this summer's Hana No`eau cultural demonstration series is April 30. The series will run from early June through late August. An honorarium of $200 will be offered to each group of practitioners, through support from the Hawai`i Pacific Parks Association.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: More than 100 Targeted in Effort to Shut Down Open Air Drug Market that is Magnet for Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that TORY DERREL LARKINS, age 30, of Lithia, Georgia, pled guilty to POSSESSION OF COUNTERFEIT SECURITIES, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 513(a), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, a fine of up to $250,000.00 or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MALGORZATA KARAS-GOLKA, also known as “Margaret," 46, of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for her role in an extensive mortgage fraud conspiracy. She was also ordered to pay $166,500 in restitution.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a letter to Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, Ranking Member of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) pressed the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to address risks associated with the transport of lithium batteries by air at an international...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: In 2004, Congress passed the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA). The CVRA grants victims in federal criminal proceedings certain enforceable rights, including the right to be reasonably heard at public court proceedings and to receive full and timely restitution as provided by law.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE - Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose released the following statement on the sentencing of David Petraeus.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Learn more about your national parks! The Cape Hatteras National Seashore, Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, and Wright Brothers National Memorial spring program schedule runs from Monday, April 27 through Thursday, May 21, 2015. A variety of free programs are offered.
