News from April 2015
By State Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Thank you Deputy Secretary Higginbottom for your continued service to our country and for your testimony today.
By DOE 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: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Trans Energy, Inc., an oil and gas exploration company based in Pleasants County, West Virginia, was sentenced today to two years of probation and ordered to pay fines totaling $600,000.00 after the company admitted to multiple violations of the Clean Water Act in connection with its natural gas drilling activity, United States Attorney William J, Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined how Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) empowers Congress to lead on trade agreements by establishing strict negotiations objectives that any administration must meet in a trade agreement, requiring Congressional consultation, and ensuring Congress has the final say on any agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Servicemembers have unique housing rights, which the DOJ will vigorously enforce.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: BRASILIA, Brazil - A 24-year-old man wanted for attempted aggravated murder was removed to Brazil Tuesday by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - Two Chicago area men were arrested today after being indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Rockford and charged with conspiring to manufacture, possess and distribute 1,000 or more marijuana plants. Arrested were: GEORGE H. BACUS, 51, of Niles, Ill., and JEREMIAH N. CLEMENT, 37, of...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: OXFORD, Ohio - Florjan Nilaj and Gazmend Vukaj left their Michigan homes and traveled 260 miles south to Oxford for a commercial painting job never thinking that Oct. 24, 2014, might be the last day of their lives.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Simpson, Ranking Member Kaptur, and Chairman Rogers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: PACER Case Reference: 14-02. HELENA - A Renton, Washington man, who passed fraudulent money orders in Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, was sentenced today to 5 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell ordered James Henry Hernandez, Jr., 48, to serve 60 months in prison followed...
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 Interior Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: The Obed Wild and Scenic River announces two programs on Saturday, May 2. First, the public is encouraged to bring any questions and join National Park Service (NPS) rangers for a free cup of coffee at Lilly Bridge from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. (ET). Then, beginning at Lilly Bridge at 11 a.m., NPS rangers will be leading another Climb with a Ranger program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for using stolen credit cards that he obtained from automobile burglaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: James Brennan, aged 50, of Columbus, Georgia was sentenced to serve 85 months in federal prison for robbing the Regions Bank in Columbus, Georgia on Oct. 14, 2014. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, on April 22, 2015, in Columbus, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 22, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to 76 months in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Matthew Taber Annable, 40, formerly of Bonners Ferry, Idaho, pleaded guilty today to bank larceny by use of a dangerous weapon and conspiracy to commit bank larceny, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Sentencing is set for June 10, 2015, before U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, May 6 @ 2:00 pm., Washita Battlefield National Historic Site invited the public to help count some benthic macro invertebrates (aka "creek bugs") collected on March 13 along a section of the Washita River flowing through the park. This biological monitoring effort was sponsored by Blue...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Anton Philip Raider, 23, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to five years in prisons followed by five years of supervised release for possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. United States District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Raider to forfeit four firearms, and ordered that his federal sentence run concurrently to his state sentencing for aiding and abetting second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SYLVIA CHESTNUT, age 37, of New Orleans, was charged yesterday in one-count Bill of Information for stealing property from a Navy Exchange Store.
