News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of his role in a large-scale conspiracy that distributed more than 15 kilograms of methamphetamine in St. Joseph, Mo., and across a four-state region.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced today that WAYLON GIVENS, age 41, of Amite, pled guilty to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with illegal possession of a machine gun and making a false statement to agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF").
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Luis Nieves, 33, of Haverhill, Massachusetts pleaded guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute it, announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Alexander Christian Gruber, 20, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for possession and distribution of methamphetamine, and unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Gruber to serve three years of supervised release. Gruber pleaded guilty on Sept. 15, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 10 projects to receive funding for research in support of the lab’s program on Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Coal Byproducts. The selected research projects will further program goals by focusing on the development of cost-effective and environmentally benign approaches for the recovery of rare earth elements (REEs) from domestic coal and coal byproducts.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: The 26th season of the Trash Tracker program successfully completed 25 trips in 2015. Trash Tracker volunteers worked 2,640 hours and picked up 36,239 pounds of trash along 676 miles of Lake Powell shoreline. Some of the most common items included 22 mattresses, 3,210 aluminum cans, 3,727 plastic bottles, 983 golf balls, and 7,863 pieces of spent fireworks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A man from Brazil who had been living unlawfully in Columbus, Ohio was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and entering the United States after having been deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, condemning his company’s efforts to tout a 50% “price cut" for Daraprim after the company just increased the price of the drug in August by 5,000%.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service turns 100 years old in 2016 and wants everyone to celebrate! All national parks, including Mount Rainier National Park, will waive entrance fees on 16 special days in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Saud Saleh, 30, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today to three years in prison for defrauding the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the food stamp program. The defendant had pleaded guilty to charges of trafficking in SNAP benefits and committing wire fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee delivered remarks on the Senate floor on the damaging Senate Republican legislation that defunds Planned Parenthood. In her remarks, Murray highlighted that...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman and good morning everyone. And welcome today’s witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A South Charleston man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, to distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Gavin Edwards, 32, of South Charleston, entered his guilty plea today to the federal drug charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHN TOKOSH, age 54, of Pennsylvania, pled guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiring to smuggle turtles out of the United States, violating the Lacey Act, and using a fictitious name and address in a mailing.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Dec. 2, 2015 BOS 2015-221
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: American Workers & Job Creators Forced to Foot the Bill for Failed Health Law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the arrest and filing of a criminal complaint charging Oran Orval Dawsey (37, Cocoa) with making threats to destroy a building using an explosive device. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: At the heart of the reconciliation proposal before the Senate is yet another partisan attempt to undermine women’s health by denying funding to Planned Parenthood.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tomorrow, Thursday, Dec. 3, Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will hold the seventh in a series of congressional forums as part of the Middle Class Prosperity Project launched by the Members in February.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2015
News Release: A new NOAA study offsite link, published in the journal Ecological Modeling, forecasts an increase in ciguatera fish poisoning in the Gulf of Mexico and the U.S. Southeast Atlantic coast with predicted rising global ocean temperatures due to climate change.
