News from December 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has signed a Record of Decision (ROD) approving the Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Prehistoric Trackways National Monument (Monument) administered by the Las Cruces District Office in southern New Mexico. About 5,255 acres of Paleozoic Era fossilized footprints, plants, and wood dating back about 280 million years ago located 10 miles northwest of Las Cruces, New Mexico, are designated as the Monument.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: More Details on the “Protecting Americans From Tax Hikes Act of 2015".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Riverside, California - A Seal Beach man who operated a bogus mortgage rescue scheme - in which he made false promises to dozens distressed homeowners, filed fraudulent bankruptcies to delay foreclosure and rented the properties to third parties as the foreclosure proceedings were delayed - was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Trans Global Solutions Inc.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: It’s here! The Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) registry is now live and ready for UAS owners to use at www.faa.gov/uas/registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in San Francisco was unsealed today, charging Robert Jacobsen with wire fraud and with engaging in financial transactions involving criminally derived proceeds, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Christy Romero, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP), and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that ADAM SIEGEL...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that two Mexican nationals were sentenced today in federal court in Charleston, West Virginia, for credit card fraud. Marco Carrillo, 22, and Luis Vazquez, 24, both of Sonora, Mexico, were each sentenced to eight months in federal prison. Carrillo and Vazquez previously pleaded guilty in September of 2015 to federal charges of conspiring to commit credit card fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Des Moines, IA - On Dec. 21, 2015, Laymon Clovesee English, 49, of Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 188 months in prison for two counts of bank robbery, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. English will be required to serve three years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that on Monday, Dec. 21, 2015, United States District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced two defendants for child exploitation offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas), and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) announced a bipartisan, bicameral deal on legislation to provide permanent tax relief for hard-working American families, college students, charities, small business and enterprises on the forefront of innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - After an eight-day trial in the United States District Court in Honolulu, a federal jury found Gilbert Lee Medina, 52, of Honolulu, guilty on Friday, Dec. 18, of conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, as well as unlawfully possessing a firearm. The jury also found him guilty of attempting to enter a secure area of the Honolulu International Airport on May 29, 2013, by fraud or false pretenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson, together with James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton and Joseph D’Amico, Superintendent of the New York State Police, today announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 32-year-old woman has been arrested on charges that she kidnapped two minor children from their foster home, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jada Gregg Warren, of Corpus Christi, is the biological mother of the children but had lost her parental rights in November 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Six Ways the “Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes" Act Helps American Taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: An East St. Louis woman, convicted of Distribution of Cocaine Base (Crack), Possession with Intent to Distribute Cocaine Base (Crack), and Felon in Possession of a Firearm, was sentenced to federal prison today, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the finalized guidance from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding gay men and blood donation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of West Virginia added a new resource in the effort to combat financial crime today as L. Danaë DeMasi-Lemon was appointed to the position of Assistant U.S. Attorney, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today applauded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) decision to list two subspecies of African lion as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as Grijalva had recommended in a September letter to FWS Director Dan Ashe and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In an effort to break the Obama administration’s stonewall on providing information about its unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) recently wrote to Secretary...
