News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of LEVI WAYNE BURNS, 40, for distribution and possession of child pornography. BURNS pleaded on guilty on June 5, 2015, to possession of child pornography and was convicted on June 10, 2015, after a jury trial, of one count of distribution...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today praised the Republican Congress’s work to produce a long-term bipartisan highway bill that funds America’s surface transportation programs for five full years without raising taxes or adding to the deficit. Hatch issued the following statement after the President signed the bill, known as Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Moises Linares-Pantaleon (62, Tampa) to five years and five months in federal prison for credit card fraud and identity theft. The Court also ordered him to pay $174,336.22 in restitution to the victims of his crimes. He pleaded guilty on Sept. 10, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Republican and Democratic lawmakers today expressed strong optimism that they will soon introduce a legislative proposal to help strengthen the retirement security of working families and ensure retirement advisors protect their clients' best interests. As bipartisan concerns continue to grow over a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Six men and two women have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of making false statements in connection with the acquisition of firearms, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold a meeting to update the public on the current status of the ongoing Cost Allocation Study for the Central Valley Project. The meeting will focus on the results of the CalSim modeling for the study and will be held...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Two Indictments Collectively Charge 25 Alleged Gang Members with Committing Four Murders, Three Assaults and Conspiring to Murder Others; Cases Pursued Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Three individuals were sentenced in federal court today for their role in a multi-state heroin trafficking operation based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: AUSTIN, Texas - In Austin, two brothers were both sentenced to ten years in federal prison for their roles in an Austin-based synthetic cannabinoid distribution operation announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.and...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. applauds today’s passage of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015. The legislation will now go to the President’s desk for signature.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Rosita Vilchez, 41, who was a fugitive in Lima, Peru, until she was extradited to the United States in June 2015, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for leading a wide-ranging mortgage fraud conspiracy that targeted hundreds of victims in the northern Virginia Hispanic community.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: ARCO -The National Park Service turns 100 years old in 2016 and wants everyone to celebrate! All national parks, including Craters of the Moon National Monument, will waive entrance fees on 16 special days in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Brian J. Davis has sentenced James Steven Hall (47, Lake City) to 24 months in federal prison for manufacturing and passing counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. As part of the sentence, the Court ordered Hall to pay restitution to the various businesses he had defrauded.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Company Will Pay $3 Million to VA.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A National Park Service biologist recently captured a large adult male mountain lion in the Santa Monica Mountains. Now known as P-45, he is estimated to be three to four years old.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Shantelle P. Kitchen, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Internal Revenue Service, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Okello Odongo, 36, of Snellville, Georgia, was indicted in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on 19 counts of filing false tax returns and fraudulently obtaining tax refunds reports Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Altec Industries Inc. recently renewed their alliance aimed at preventing workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities in the utility, telecommunications and construction industries. The alliance will focus on the safe operation, use and maintenance of equipment used in these industries, including cranes, chippers, digger derricks and aerial devices.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: HEALTHCARE, OUTDOOR RECREATION AGENCIES PARTNER TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF SOUTHERN NEVADA.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of December 7.
