News from February 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the United States Trade Representative challenged illegal subsidies from China that appear to have been provided to its companies in sectors including textiles, agriculture, apparel and footwear, specialty chemicals, medical products, hardware and building materials, light industry and advanced materials and metals. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announced today that Edwin L. Roberson, currently Assistant Director for Renewable Resources and Planning in Washington, D.C., will be the new Director of the BLM's National Operations Center in Denver."I am pleased to announce that Ed, who has successfully overseen key...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - An Adams man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Springfield yesterday in a conspiracy to traffic in contraband tobacco.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: “Good morning. Thank you Chairman Conaway for holding today’s hearing and thank you Secretary Vilsack for joining us today. Welcome back to the Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Andrew Avery has been arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud and mail fraud stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 7, 2014. Avery fled the country, but was extradited from Thailand and arrested on Jan. 26, 2015. He is currently in federal custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that RACE ADDINGTON, 49, of Houston, pled guilty today to two counts of making false statements to agencies or departments of the United States in relation to the veracity of blowout preventer testing on an offshore oil and gas platform located at Ship Shoal 225 located on a federal mineral lease in the Gulf of Mexico.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The Commodity Future Trading Commission is the quiet hero of America’s fiscal stability. Since 1974, the CFTC has regulated the US agricultural commodity and other futures and options markets. For 36 years the CFTC executed its responsibilities while protecting investors from fraud, on a tiny budget. But with 2010 passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, the CFTC’s jurisdiction exploded nearly seven-fold from $37 trillion to $400 trillion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - AstraZeneca LP, a pharmaceutical manufacturer based in Delaware, has agreed to pay the government $7.9 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme in violation of the False Claims Act, the Justice Department announced today. AstraZeneca markets and sells pharmaceutical products in the United States, including a drug sold under the trade name Nexium.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Charles B. Rangel (D-NY) today issued the following statements in response to the Administration’s announcement that it has initiated a World Trade Organization (WTO) action challenging China’s provision of illegal export subsidies to manufacturers across an extremely broad swath of industries in China...
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. A White County man was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2015, to federal prison on child pornography charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Juan Pablo Villasenor-Villa, 25, of Michoacan, Mexico, was sentenced yesterday to 288 months in prison for continuing criminal enterprise involving the unlawful growing of thousands of marijuana plants, and possession of large quantities of harvested marijuana with intent to distribute it, as...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two New Jersey men are in FBI custody today on charges arising from a scheme to extort thousands of dollars in corrupt payments in connection with arranging approvals to provide landfill materials for a Hudson County Improvement Authority project, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: “For several months, U.S.-led coalition air strikes have sought to degrade the terrorist threat that ISIL poses to the region. This threat has been growing for too long, jeopardizing key U.S. partners and interests in the Middle East, and inflicting great suffering on the people of Iraq and Syria. All...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following remarks for the full Committee hearing on Countering Violent Islamist Extremism: The Urgent Threat of Foreign Fighters and Homegrown Terror...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 11, 2015 - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today issued the following statement in support of Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper's (D) lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's decision, under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), to list the Gunnison sage grouse as a “Threatened" species and designate more than 1.4 million acres in portions of eastern Utah and western Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Felon tossed firearm with loaded magazine while fleeing from officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama awarded today, posthumously, the Medal of Valor to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) Special Agent John Capano. The Medal of Valor is awarded annually by the President to public safety officers who have exhibited exceptional courage, regardless of personal safety, in the attempt to save or protect human life.
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 U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Stroudsburg man was arrested by federal agents yesterday on drug trafficking charges brought by a federal grand jury.
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. A Jefferson County man was sentenced on February 6, 2015, to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
