News from February 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Hearing on “Surface Transportation Reauthorization Bill: Laying the Foundation for U.S. Economic Growth and Job Creation, Part I". Feb. 11, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Welcome to today’s hearing, and welcome...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Stole And Laundered Money Selling False Insurance Bonds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in an armed carjacking and subsequent involvement in a scheme to bribe a corrections officer to smuggle contraband, including marijuana and cell phones, into the Essex County Correctional Facility, a federal pretrial detention facility, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wayne Spencer, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 121 months by U.S. District Court Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: MINERAL, CA -Along with National Park Service areas nationwide, Lassen Volcanic National Park will waive entrance fees Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16 in honor of Presidents Day. "This holiday weekend is a perfect time to enjoy your park with friends and family. Play in the snow at the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center or take a stroll along snow-free Manzanita Lake." stated Acting Park Superintendent Steve Gibbons.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: This morning, the Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee convened a hearing on the President’s budget request for Indian Health Service for FY2016. The budget would spend $6.3 billion on the Indian Health Service. Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) attended, in her first hearing as the ranking Democratic member, and released the following statement.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a bill to better protect private industry and the federal government from evolving and growing cyber threats to our national and economic security. The Cyber Threat Sharing Act of 2015 would take critical steps to remove barriers in order to increase the sharing of cyber threat data between private industry and the federal government.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Ecologist John Paul "J.P." Schmit, Ph.D., and colleagues in the National Park Service (NPS) National Capital Region Network, Inventory and Monitoring (NCRN I&M) program, have created two online visualization tools for examining national park streams and forests in the greater Washington region.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today responded to assertions by Republicans during a Budget Committee hearing that the trust fund financing Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is in “crisis.".
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. Ryan Earl Bess, 34, of Ridgeway, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to a 5 year prison term for conspiring with two other individuals to grow...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RAMON E. MADRID, 29, a resident of Kenner, pled guilty yesterday to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of government funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Assistant Secretary Darcy and General Bostick, we appreciate you appearing before the Subcommittee this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Bonnie Monique Youn has been arraigned on additional federal charges that she submitted false documentation on behalf of three new clients who were aliens seeking immigration status in the United States. She has been charged with two new counts of visa fraud, two new counts of alien harboring, and two new counts of witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Two men have been found guilty for their roles in a large-scale drug-trafficking conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, chaired by U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), is scheduled to mark up the following items at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2015 in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Madame Chairwoman, I join you in welcoming our witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U. S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Thomas Cramer. The defendant was convicted on four counts of sex trafficking of minors and sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising that the Glen Falls Trail, located on Lookout Mountain, that closed in October 2014, due to a mud slide, is now re-opened to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Vice President Joe Biden and Attorney General Eric Holder today awarded the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor to Officer Andrew Michael Keith of the Knoxville Police Department, who exhibited exceptional courage in saving and protecting others and whose heroic actions were above and beyond the call of duty.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former city clerk of Altoona, Kan., pleaded guilty Wednesday to bank fraud, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
