News from February 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: When it reaches its final destination about 110 days from now, and after it completes a series of initialization checks, DSCOVR will be the nation’s first operational satellite in deep space, orbiting between Earth and the Sun at a point called the Lagrange point, or L1. It will take its place at L1...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Co-Defendant Pleads Guilty to Misprision of a Felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that seven individuals have pleaded guilty to engaging in a conspiracy to file fraudulent income tax returns. Brandon Gilchrist, Donterrio Troup, Terrance Johnson, Tanisha Johnson, and Shadae Cotton each pleaded guilty to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 23-year-old Beaumont man has been sentenced to over 43 years in federal prison for his role in an armed carjacking spree in April 2012 in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted a former Carencro Police Officer for receiving cash payments from Desperado’s Gentlemen’s Cabaret.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Fidel Perales-Castillo, 43, has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala in San Antonio and Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar. Perales-Castillo is a Mexican Citizen in the United States Illegally.
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 February 6, 2015, to federal prison on methamphetamine charges, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NANCY DILLON, 70, of Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA -On February 17 and 18, 2015, 300 individuals will become U.S. citizens at Biscayne National Park…a place that now belongs to them as it does to all Americans. The ceremonies, open to the public, take place at 10:00 am on both Tuesday, February 17 and Wednesday, February 18 at the park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center, located 9 miles east of Homestead at 9700 SW 328 Street.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing on the Internal Revenue Service. I am pleased to have the Commissioner before us today. I also thank the witnesses on the second panel for testifying today.
By Homeland 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 DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Major asbestos release resulted in a $1 million cleanup by EPA’s Superfund Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Examining ICD-10 Implementation." The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a standardized coding system used by health care providers for identifying illnesses and...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Abel Romero, 31, of Anthony, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 131 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms and narcotics laws. Romero was sentenced based on a guilty plea entered on Dec. 5, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - A Springdale, Arkansas man was convicted by a jury today in the U.S. District Court in Fayetteville, Arkansas, of tax crimes, announced U.S. Attorney Conner Eldridge of the Western District of Arkansas and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE - As winter weather whips the nation’s northern-most state, pilots now have access to a fully deployed Alaska Weather Camera Program to help them determine when and where it’s safe to fly.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Joel Sesma-Garcia, 40, was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2015, and Gerald Fidel Herrera, 41, was sentenced on Jan. 30, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Jennifer G. Zipps to 25 years and 15 years’ imprisonment, respectively, for their roles in a cocaine distribution ring that operated from 2008 to 2012 and spanned five states. Both are from Tucson, Ariz.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and William J. Bratton, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced today...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Examining ICD-10 Implementation." The International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is a standardized coding system used by health care providers for identifying illnesses and...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Make an executive decision to visit a national park this Presidents Day weekend. All fee-charging national parks will offer free admission from February 14 through 16, including Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park.
