News from August 2015
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Farmington - Aug. 25, 2015 marks the National Park Service’s 99th birthday and the start of the land agency’s centennial celebration into 2016. As the Western Pennsylvania National Parks (WEPA) prepare for the centennial year we are looking for talented fourth graders to share their park experience in art. The winning entry will be used on the annual five park pass for the 2016 season.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Joseph Jackson, aka “Jo Jo," the lead defendant of a nine defendant heroin distribution conspiracy centered in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. All nine defendants have been charged, convicted and sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Settlements With Three Hospitals, Hospital Management Company, and Company’s CEO Bring Total Recoveries in Joint Federal-State Investigation to Over $25 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Conspiracy Involved Target Department Store’s REDcard Accounts.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., met with Guatemalan labor representatives about the importance of enforcing labor laws and strengthening protections for workers as part of a week-long visit to Guatemala, Cuba and Argentina, from Aug. 15-23.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) sent a letter to the four federal shared-service centers asking for clarification on reporting practices for federal employees’ wage and tax statements (Form W-2) to the Social Security Administration...
By DOL Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold the inaugural meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health (NACOSH) on Sept. 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Ronnie Lee Shelton, 43, and Brenda Lee Bolton, 46, both of Greeneville, Tenn., Eric Matthew Vance, 33, of Blountville, Tenn., and Geri Kim Ward, 33, of Church Hill, Tenn., were sentenced between August 18 and Aug. 20, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service has released a Finding of No Significant Impact(FONSI) for the proposed expansion of the climate monitoring program in Glacier Bay. Eight additional Remote Automated Weather Stations and two data-logging thermistors will be placed within the park and preserve beginning in August 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: This year marks the 225th anniversary of the U.S. Coast Guard. To honor the agency's rich past and the vital role it continues to play in saving lives, Cape Cod National Seashore will host Coast Guard Night on August 27 at Old Harbor Life-Saving Station Museum at Race Point Beach in Provincetown. During the.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to reduce carbon pollution, create jobs and move our economy toward clean energy sources, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved the Blythe Mesa Solar project in California. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay More Than $2.6 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Former President of Bay Area Home Builder Pleads Guilty to Mortgage Fraud Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Christopher Mayo to Serve 14 Months in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Victor Stepus, 47, of Chicopee, was charged on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015 in U.S. District Court in Springfield with one count of receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant, also known as “Spam King", Admits To Illegally Accessing Approximately 500,000 Facebook Accounts And Sending More Than 27 Million Commercial Electronic Messages Through Facebook’s Servers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man who was arrested after putting a gun to his girlfriend’s head pleaded guilty Monday to a federal firearm charge, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - Sentencing has been scheduled on Jan. 4, 2016, for a Tuscola, Ill., businessman, Lorenzo Shane Stewart, owner of Ten Acres Excavating, who pled guilty on Friday to two counts of income tax evasion. Stewart appeared in Springfield before U.S. District Judge Sue E. Myerscough. Stewart remains on bond pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Joseph Jackson, aka “Jo Jo," the lead defendant of a nine defendant heroin distribution conspiracy centered in Benton Harbor, Michigan, was sentenced to 204 months (17 years) in prison. All nine defendants have been charged, convicted...
