News from December 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: From New Year’s Day 2016 through Dec. 31, 2016, Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will celebrate its centennial anniversary, and everyone is invited to join the celebration!.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week said #Yes2Energy and approved H.R. 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act, a bill aimed at modernizing America’s outdated energy policies written during a time of energy scarcity. The House also passed Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member, released the statement below after the President signed into law the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The bill, which passed both ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II has sentenced Mark Gardner (29, Osteen) to seven years and three months in federal prison for his role in the operation of a boiler room. He was also ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to his victims. Gardner pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2015.
By DOE 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.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this week said #Yes2Energy and passed a number of Energy and Commerce Committee energy bills that keep electricity affordable and reliable, modernize our dated energy laws, and boost drinking water for rural America. Additionally, the House passed a long-term highway bill that contained committee priorities to improve #Safety4Drivers and bolster America’s energy security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: In Houston today, a federal judge sentenced 45-year-old Tyrone Eugene Jordan, a sovereign citizen residing in Houston, to ten years in federal prison for retaliating against a federal judge and prosecutor by filing false liens announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Charles Martin Eberlen (61, Palm Bay) to 10 years in federal prison for attempted sexual enticement of a minor. In addition, the Court ordered him to serve a five-year term of supervision, and to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison. Eberlen pleaded guilty on Sept. 14, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) released this statement Friday regarding the committee’s ongoing oversight of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif....
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two Lawrence men were charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a scheme to file fraudulent federal income tax returns using stolen identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who handled the case, stated that on Feb. 22, 2014, the defendant attempted to enter the United States at the Rainbow Bridge Port of Entry. After being referred for secondary inspection, Foss was found in possession of four ounces of methylone that she was intending to deliver a person on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Amherst.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - Blaine Garrett Reposa, 47, of Livingston, Montana, was sentenced today in Missoula federal court for distribution of child pornography. Reposa pleaded guilty to the charge in August. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Dana Christensen Sentenced Reposa to 60 months incarceration. Following his release, Reposa will be subject to 20 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois collected more than $50 million in criminal, civil and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2015, Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 23-year-old legal permanent resident from Mexico who resided in Laredo has been ordered to prison following his conviction of for possession of nearly nine kilograms of crystal methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Wilivaldo Sanchez-Mende, 23, pleaded guilty April 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - U.S. Attorney Carter M. Stewart announced today that the Southern District of Ohio collected nearly $55 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount, nearly $46 million was collected in criminal actions and approximately $9 million was collected in civil actions.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for December 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, this week highlighted the energy innovation occurring in some of Alaska’s most isolated communities as local leaders seek to reduce the cost of electricity through a variety of cutting-edge technologies.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park announces the 40th annual Festival of Christmas Past celebration scheduled on Saturday, December 12 from9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Sugarlands Visitor Center. The event, sponsored in cooperation with Great Smoky Mountains Association, is free to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Mark Yaffe (55, Tampa) to 20 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. As part of the sentence, the Court also ordered Yaffe to pay $3,049,581 in restitution to the bank he had defrauded.
