News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Moon Township has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement about President Barack Obama’s proposed authorization for the use of military force (AUMF) against ISIS that was submitted to Congress today. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has jurisdiction over AUMF legislation.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist in North Carolina has found a way to encourage more growers to use cover crops in the Southeastern United States-allow cattle to graze on them.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $2.5 million in available funding for the Cleantech University Prize (Cleantech UP), which aims to inspire the next generation of clean energy entrepreneurs. This funding opportunity will support the commercialization of promising technologies for sectors such as solar and wind that reduce carbon pollution and grow the clean energy economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Larry Richie Fields, 45, of Wingate, Texas, appeared today in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig and pleaded guilty to one count of transportation of child pornography. Fields, who has been in federal custody since his arrest in January on related charges, faces...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Christopher Farkes, Ryan Williams and Joseph Daneff Receive U.S. Attorney’s Guardian of Justice Awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Anyone Who May Have Been Victimized In This Case Asked To Contact FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Colorado Resident Howard Cahn, Who Tried to Save His Michigan Manufacturing Business by Selling Defective Machinegun Components to DoD in 2009, Sentenced to 30 Months in Federal Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Feb. 11, 2015 15-009. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Recruiting for 2015 Youth Conservation Corps...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: At Least Tens of Thousands of Child Pornography and Erotica Images and Videos Found on Digital Devices Seized from the Defendant’s Home.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released an update on Wednesday to the High Risk List, an inventory of government operations vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement. GAO updates the High Risk List every two years at the beginning of a new Congress to focus national...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument News Release.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Today marks the third time in less than a year that the Finance Committee will debate bipartisan legislation improving the U.S. tax code. That’s been a welcome change of pace. In fact, the committee had gone nearly two full years without a tax markup when it passed the EXPIRE Act last spring to extend...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A licensed pediatrician practicing in Jersey City, New Jersey, today admitted fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than 1,000 wound repair procedures that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: UNION, Mo. - Workers were exposed to amputation* and other serious hazards while operating presses at Gateway Extrusions' aluminum parts manufacturing facility, an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. OSHA cited one repeated and eight serious safety and health violations at the Union facility, with proposed penalties of $63,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee markup of 17 miscellaneous tax bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. Henry J. Dietz, 54, of Edgewood, IL, was indicted on Feb. 3, 2015, on methamphetamine related charges in a two count Indictment returned by a Federal Grand Jury sitting in Benton...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to five years of probation on his conviction of unlawful procurement of citizenship or naturalization, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - Former corrections officer Feso Malufau, age 55, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Leslie E. Kobayashi to 97 months imprisonment on charges that he conspired with the USO Family prison gang to obtain and smuggle methamphetamine and other contraband into Halawa Correctional Facility. A federal jury found Malufau guilty of racketeering on Oct. 10, 2014, following a nine-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A licensed pediatrician practicing in Jersey City, New Jersey, today admitted fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than 1,000 wound repair procedures that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
