News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Thomas Keesing Convicted on Charges arising out of Scheme to Embezzle $3,575,000 from Indian Pueblo Federal Development Corporation.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of several important committee public health initiatives in the recently released year-end spending package. In addition to the public health measures, the package also includes committee priorities to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Damian Corbett, 40, of New Rochelle, New York, was found guilty today in U.S. District Court following a two-day jury trial of conspiracy to distribute oxycodone and oxymorphone.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following passage of legislation to reform the nation's toxic chemicals law.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: New York Man Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for Receiving and Accessing Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Adel Abdullah, 32, of Lackawanna, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, controlled substance analogues, before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KENNETH JAMES HEBERT, a/k/a Keno, age 51, of Hugo, Oklahoma was sentenced to 63 months imprisonment and 3 years Supervised Release for being a FELON IN POSSESSION OF EXPLOSIVE, in violation of...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, NY - The National Park Service is seeking applicants for the 2016 Artist-in-Residence program at Fire Island National Seashore. Artists from all disciplines are encouraged to apply by the February 5, 2016 deadline to be considered for one of the four, two-week residencies being offered.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: The Spruce Railroad Trail (SRRT) along the north shore of Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park will reopen this weekend following a four-month closure for trail construction. The east trailhead was closed since late July to allow contractors to improve 1,800 feet of the trail for universal accessibility. The contract is now completed. Safety rails along some of the steeper slopes will be added in the coming weeks.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of several important committee public health initiatives in the recently released year-end spending package. In addition to the public health measures, the package also includes committee priorities to...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of several important committee public health initiatives in the recently released year-end spending package. In addition to the public health measures, the package also includes committee priorities to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that Steven Dwight McDaniel, age 27, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 35 months imprisonment and 3 years Supervised Release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg has indicted three men, two for distributing heroin and crack cocaine in York that led to the death of a York City man and a third man for operating and maintaining a home in York for purposes of facilitating drug trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced historic energy efficiency standards for commercial air conditioners and furnaces that will help cut carbon emissions and operating costs for businesses in the coming decades.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy seeking information regarding the use of social media platforms by EPA to promote the agency’s climate rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Enrique Marquez Jr., a longtime friend of Syed Rizwan Farook, the male shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack, was charged today with conspiring with Farook in 2011 and 2012 to commit crimes of terrorism. Marquez was also charged today with the unlawful purchase of two assault rifles used in the deadly shooting two weeks ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Luis Martinez-Gomez, age 29, Alexis Alvarado-Diaz, age 20, and Santos Aguilar-De Leon, age 30, natives and citizens of Mexico, were indicted separately yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on illegal re-entry charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Aleksey Sosonko, age 35, of Owings Mills, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, kidnapping, and brandishing a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with the robbery of a jewelry store, including a home invasion robbery, carjacking and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of wire fraud was sentenced on Dec. 11, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced historic energy efficiency standards for commercial air conditioners and furnaces that will help cut carbon emissions and operating costs for businesses in the coming decades.
