News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On April 16, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 29 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation, with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Police Department- Guayama Strike Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: COVINGTON - A Covington, Ky., couple has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in northern Kentucky.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Today, the Senate Finance Committee will consider the Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015 (TPA-2015), bicameral legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), a tool that gives Congress the power to lay out objectives that any Administration - Republican or Democrat - must meet in trade agreements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Jerry Wana Taylor (52, Coleman) guilty of possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set. Taylor was indicted on January 7, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today took action to protect consumers and small businesses by voting to advance the Targeting Rogue and Opaque Letters Act (TROL Act) by a vote of 10 to 7. The TROL Act is a balanced solution to stop the practice of fraudulent and abusive patent demand letters, while preserving the ability of patent holders to legitimately protect their intellectual property.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Helena Weil was sentenced today to four months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $496,101 related to her submission of billings to the federal Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP), announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and United States Postal Service-Office of Inspector General Special Agent in Charge Eileen Neff.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted the importance of reauthorizing and modernizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) Act so that it reflects the changing needs and evolving viewpoints about conservation in the 21st century. The LWCF was enacted 50 years ago to increase recreational ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH). Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment. Hearing on “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Request for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and Tennessee Valley Authority". April 22, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The Administration’s...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Two new berries have been developed thanks to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists at the Horticultural Crops Research Unit in Corvallis, Oregon, and their collaborators.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Marheem R. Smith, 24, of Pensacola, was sentenced to 8 ½ years in federal prison by Chief United States District Judge M. Casey Rodgers for possessing cocaine with the intent to distribute, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense, and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The sentence was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Morris County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining $500,000 by promising investors favorable returns and that funds would be used to finance educational television programming for teenage audiences, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTE, N.C. - A second superseding federal indictment was unsealed this morning charging 12 alleged gang members with racketeering conspiracy, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Of the 12 defendants charged, seven face additional charges, including murder in aid of racketeering and related firearms violations, which potentially expose those defendants to the federal death penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRENISE DEBOUE MURPHY, age 52, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with conspiring to commit theft of government funds.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today voted to approve the Ratepayer Protection Act by a vote of 17 to 12. The Ratepayer Protection Act is a commonsense solution to protect ratepayers from higher electricity prices, reduced reliability, and other harmful impacts of EPA’s proposed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Iowa men were sentenced in federal court today for the armed robbery of a Burlington Junction, Mo., bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - Two alleged members of the Two Six Nation street gang were indicted on attempted murder and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Dshawn Dozier, 34, and Michael Hodge, 36, both of Beckley, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today in federal court to distributing cocaine base, commonly known as crack cocaine. Dozier and Hodge both admitted that they sold crack in the fall of 2014 to individuals who were cooperating with law enforcement authorities. Both drug deals took place on Rice Street in Beckley.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of an Unregistered Firearm and Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm was sentenced on April 20, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
By Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Superintendent David Hallac announced today that Cape Hatteras National Seashore has contracted the Seashore's lifeguard operations to serve the visiting public during the 2015 summer season.Operations of three Seashore sites, Coquina Beach in South Nags Head, Buxton Beach near the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse...
