News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office, working on behalf of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), entered into a settlement agreement with RANLife, Inc., a Salt Lake City, Utah corporation that originates and underwrites residential mortgage...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015. A Canadian citizen pleaded guilty today to six counts of smuggling turtles, some of which were endangered, from the United States in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Annual winter closures begin today on certain lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Little Snake Field Office to reduce stress on wildlife.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on elections in Burkina Faso...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Kevin Schneider has been selected to serve as superintendent of Acadia National Park and St. Croix Island International Historic Site. As superintendent, Schneider will oversee the parks' day-to-day operations and manage numerous park projects, programs, and community partnerships. Schneider replaces...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement on the October jobs report.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: The leaders of the House and Senate lead committees working to reach a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on surface transportation legislation released a joint statement today on the Conference Report for the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Mr. Chairman, first I would like to congratulate you on your new post. Our tax subcommittee has a long, rich bipartisan history of coming together to address some of the nation’s biggest problems. We have worked together in the past and I hope to continue to work together on tackling very important issues. Thank you for calling this very important hearing on the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project. The timing could not be more fitting.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine and powder cocaine in Boone County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 31-year-old Victoria man has been ordered to federal prison following his two convictions of production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Mathew Kelly Millegan pleaded guilty Aug. 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRANDEN HUERTAS, also known as “Branden Holloway," 34, formerly of Norwalk and last residing in Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced a former lieutenant with the Miami-Dade Police Department, Internal Affairs, was sentenced today to 120 months...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Chairman Raises Concerns About Safety, American Leadership Over Proposed Changes to Federal Drilling Rules
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 2:00 p.m, Washita Battlefield National Historic Site will show the film, The Sand Creek Massacre to the Civil War in the park's visitor center theater. A film produced by the National Park Service, it premiered as one of several commmorative events of the 150th year after the Sand Creek Massacre. The film shares the life of prominent figure involved in the Sand Creek story, "an extraordinary man of the Americn West - George Bent.".
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a report on the importance of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) detailing the potential impacts of selling oil from the reserve to pay for unrelated legislative initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joshua Rakestraw, 25, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Farmington, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on involuntary manslaughter and assault charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: The Atlantic, eastern and central Pacific hurricane seasons officially ended yesterday, and as predicted, the Atlantic season stayed below normal with 11 named storms, while the eastern and central Pacific were above normal with both regions shattering all-time records.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sarah Beth Meckley, 33, of Morgantown, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for arson, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT[1]. Washington, DC. 1-3 December 2015. Introduction. Delegations from Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark, the European Union, Iceland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Norway, the Russian Federation and the United States of America met in Washington,...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Acting U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams announced today that Suzanne Hayden will join the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon in January, with the responsibility of implementing components of the District’s Smart on Crime Action Plan. The Smart on Crime Initiative is a nationwide...
