News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings release the following statement today following news that A.T. Smith is stepping down as U.S. Secret Service Deputy Director...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chad Allen Riffle, 22, resident of Citrus Springs, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to 5 years in prison for structuring cash transactions, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Robert L. Barcliff was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, February 9, 2015. Follow @SDILNews. A St. Charles, Missouri, resident was sentenced to federal prison for unlawful distribution of a controlled substance on February 6, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men who were leaders of a scheme involving a company called Gigapix that defrauded hundreds of victims by promising large returns on movie investments and a production company’s imminent public offering were sentenced today, receiving sentences of up to eight years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: MONTE VISTA, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office, in cooperation with the Pike San Isabel National Forest, is seeking public comments on a draft environmental assessment authorizing Xcel Energy to rebuild three existing transmission lines.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Keianna A. Jones, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, was sentenced to time served, one year supervised release and ordered to pay restitution totaling $54,316.00 by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida has partnered with the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to co-host a one-day training on Campus Sexual Assault Prevention and Response. Since 1999, OVW has funded...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Release Date: 9 February 2015. Contacts: Stephanie Steinhorst, stephanie_steinhorst@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 203. NR15-01. 150th Anniversary First Saturday Programs-March 7, 2014. Commemorating the final days of prisoners at Andersonville. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia -Join park staff and volunteers for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Charlotte McLaughlin was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Bribery, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(2)(C). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced McLaughlin to 13 months imprisonment and 3 years supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON The Department of Justice reached an agreement today to resolve a lawsuit it brought against Sairam Enterprises Inc. LLC, which owns a hotel in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The proposed consent decree, which must be approved by the court, resolves a 2014 lawsuit that the department filed against Sairam Enterprises over allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) when it denied a room at a Days Inn to a person with a service animal and his family.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Monica Causgrove, 43, of Lafayette, La., has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of wire fraud in a scheme in which she caused Hess Corporation more than $1 million in loss, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. She pleaded guilty Nov. 24, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: After 30 years with the National Park Service (NPS), Paul Stevens will be retiring on Feb. 27, 2015.Stevens, a long-time resident and Outer Banks Group employee, transferred to Cape Hatteras National Seashore in 1988.He served in other parks including an internship at Cape Lookout National Seashore...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: “We agree that America’s energy picture is changing rapidly and that we need to update and modernize our energy infrastructure immediately. Right now, thanks to President Obama’s and the Democrats in Congress’ energy policies, our country is experiencing record energy surpluses, significant reductions...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: On Wednesday, February 11 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Student Success Act (H.R. 5). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Theresa Blow, 65, who now lives in Enosburg Falls, was sentenced yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington to one year and one day of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge of federal program...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: “We agree that America’s energy picture is changing rapidly and that we need to update and modernize our energy infrastructure immediately. Right now, thanks to President Obama’s and the Democrats in Congress’ energy policies, our country is experiencing record energy surpluses, significant reductions...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Cruz Soria, 29, of Bakersfield, California was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for conspiring to manufacture, distribute and possess with intent to distribute marijuana in the Fay Canyon area of the Canebrake Ecological Reserve, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Soria was also ordered to pay $2,568.85 in restitution to the High Sierra Trail Volunteer Crew for the cost of cleaning up the grow site.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a framework for a comprehensive energy package to advance its Architecture of Abundance agenda this Congress. The committee is preparing a series of discussion drafts to address four key policy areas: modernizing infrastructure, ...
