News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Susan R. Thompson (58, Jacksonville) yesterday pleaded guilty to making false statements to a federal officer. She faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. No sentencing date has been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Committee is working on legislation to "enhance visa security processing." In related press releases, he has argued that the Obama Administration is to blame for admitting one of the suspects in the San Bernardino attacks into the country ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Brian Keith Dunnigan, 46, of Charleston, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court in Charleston to eight years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 or more grams of methamphetamine. Dunnigan had previously pleaded guilty to the federal drug charge in September of 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking a Concessionaire to provide commercial services to the public at the newly modernized Goose Bay Marina and Campground, located on the eastern shore of Canyon Ferry Reservoir, near Townsend, Montana.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Imagine you're baking a special cake, one in which the shape of each mote of spice mixed into the batter can have a profound effect on your dessert's color, its taste, its texture on the tongue. That's a rough description of creating new lightweight materials for aircraft, cars and windmills that use tiny nanoparticles as ingredients, and scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made* recipe development a more palatable job.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Since 1986, the third Monday in January has been designated as a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence. On this day, the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Dec. 22, 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kenneth Kapikian, 58, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for defrauding the University of Pennsylvania out of $3,039,383. Kapikian pleaded guilty, June 10, 2015, to six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. His co-defendant, Dennis Gagliardi, of Chester Springs, PA, pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: GLEN JEAN,WEST VIRGINIA: This new year brings about an exciting celebration in America, the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. Parks across the U.S. will host centennial events throughout 2016, including New River Gorge National River. The first local event to kick off 2016 is a 100 Mile Challenge. Celebrate these 100 years by hiking 100 miles or more on trails in New River Gorge National River and Bluestone National Scenic River in 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that WALTER OIL & GAS COMPANY, a Texas corporation residing in Houston, Texas, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information which charged the company with failing to provide notification to the National Response Center of a hazardous discharge, in violation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that STAG ARMS LLC, a firearms manufacturer in New Britain, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to violating federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City, Kan., man who pointed a gun at a woman and pushed her out a driver’s side door before stealing her car was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. The sentence is to be served consecutively to a 10-year sentence in another federal case.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Wilson-Hurd Manufacturing Co., Berlin, Wisconsin
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the implementation of an accelerated process for annual water transfers and/or exchanges pursuant to Section 3405(a) of the CVPIA for Contract Years 2016 through 2020 (March 1, 2016 to Feb. 29, 2021).
By DOL Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Dec. 22, 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Christy Goldsmith Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (“SIGTARP")...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A chemical manufacturing company in Rice County pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawfully disposing of hazardous waste into a salt water disposal well and paid a $1 million fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Waterford, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2015
News Release: Defendant illegally received over $32,000 in tax refunds.
