News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JAMES MEYER, a former assistant to artist Jasper Johns, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 18 months in prison for his role the sale of 37 works that MEYER stole from Johns’s studio in Sharon, Connecticut. MEYER pled guilty on Aug. 27, 2014, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen goods. MEYER was sentenced by U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the growing problem of prescription drug and opioid abuse from professional and academic perspectives. Members heard from a number of experts about treatment options currently available and best practices for those suffering from addiction and abuse as part of the committee’s ongoing effort to confront this problem.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the growing problem of prescription drug and opioid abuse from professional and academic perspectives. Members heard from a number of experts about treatment options currently available and best practices for those suffering from addiction and abuse as part of the committee’s ongoing effort to confront this problem.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today began its work on a comprehensive energy bill with a review of a discussion draft of Title II: 21st Century Workforce. This section of the bill seeks to improve education and training for energy and manufacturing-related...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 10,099,276 visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2014 spent $806,719,900 in communities near the park. That spending supported 12,759 jobs in the local area.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After nearly a year of listening to patients, innovators, researchers, providers, and regulators, 21st Century Cures next week will take the next step in the legislative phase with a hearing, “Legislative Hearing on 21st Century Cures," on Thursday, April 30, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Glover, 35, of Canton, Ohio, was arrested yesterday in Ohio on an indictment alleging child pornography charges that was filed on April 14, 2015, by a federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M. Glover made his initial appearance on the indictment yesterday afternoon in the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 4,041,672 visitors to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area in 2014 spent $133 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 2013 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $195 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - A Hillsville, Va. accountant and bookkeeper has been arrested on a Federal criminal complaint.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: A new National Park Service report shows that approximately 216,000 visitors to Obed Wild & Scenic River in 2014, spent $3.7 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 46 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2014 shows that the spending of nearly 38 million visitors to national parks in the National Capital Region resulted in 14,957 jobs and contributed more than $1.4 billion to the region’s economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: In Waco, a 27-year-old mother living on Fort Hood pleaded guilty this afternoon to injury to a child by omission, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: Tupelo, MS - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 5,846,473 visitors to Natchez Trace Parkway in 2014 spent $136 million in communities near the park, which supported 1,843 jobs in the local area. Because the Parkway extends through three states, the NPS has calculated that 80% of the spending is in Mississippi, 13% in Tennessee, and 7% in Alabama.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler requesting information about his proposal to close 16 of the commission’s 24 field offices across the country. During testimony before the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: In celebration of National Park Week, National Junior Ranger Day and the upcoming National Park Service Centennial in 2016, the Obed Wild and Scenic River will be having a Junior Ranger program on Saturday, April 25. This free program will take place inside the Obed Visitor Center, located at 208 North...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Dale Mentzer, 37, of Waymart, PA, was sentenced today to 264 months in prison for a string of armed robberies that he committed, between July 11, 2013 and July 19, 2013 with a co-defendant, in Berks, Chester, Lebanon, and Northampton Counties. Mentzer and Heath DeRizzo, 38, of Manheim...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - According to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Providence on Wednesday, Paul Spremulli, 54, of Coventry, R.I., the owner and president of PKS Associates and Temp Depot, temporary employment agencies located in Cranston, is expected to plead guilty to a charge of wire fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Luis Marrero, 32, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute marijuana, was sentenced to 36 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 23, 2015
News Release: BERLIN, MARYLAND -A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 2,170,681 visitors to Assateague Island National Seashore in 2014 spent $90,417,200 in communities near the park. That spending supported 1,241 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $102,346,900.
By State Newswire | Apr 23, 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 accidental killing of Dr. Warren Weinstein during a counter-terrorism operation earlier this year.
