News from February 2015
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Combustible dust left uncontrolled or suspended in the air can explode, which was one of many safety hazards discovered after an inspection at the Thomas Moore Feed facility in Navasota, Texas, by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. OSHA inspectors found 18 violations and proposed a penalty of $58,100.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Davidson L. Alfred, 54, of St. John, to 17 months in prison and two years of supervised release for bank fraud, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Gomez ordered Alfred to serve his sentence consecutively to...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA:Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is advising the public that the actual road closures for this project will begin Feb. 17, 2015 and continue through June 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Michael Garvey, president and CEO of M-7 Technologies, an engineering, manufacturing and research organization, has joined the primary advisory committee for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Acting NIST Director Willie May appointed Garvey to the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT) for a three-year term.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Scranton woman was arrested by federal agents yesterday for making false representations in connection with the acquisition of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Vernon Warner II, 29, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 54 months in prison for dealing in firearms without a license.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Jury Convicts Five of Eight Defendants Following Trial of Over Two Months; A Total of 40 Defendants Have Been Convicted in the Jail Racketeering Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Darrick Donnell Belcher, 36, of Marion, was sentenced in federal court for his participation in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. Belcher pled guilty to the charge in October of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that PAUL BURRUS, 44, of New Haven, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday in...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Marlow Bates, Jr., age 33, of Baltimore, today to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin. Bates was one of fourteen defendants indicted for conspiracy on Sept. 24, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 18 individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Misty Angel has two prior state felony convictions for the same conduct.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Scott Alvarez, the General Counsel...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 57-year-old Rialto, CA woman living in Port Arthur, Texas has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Steven Adams, 47, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to possession of heroin with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Four individuals, including a former physician, were taken into custody on felony fraud charges in connection with a complex scheme investigated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to print thousands of fake prescriptions bearing the names of legitimate doctors, ultimately sold on the streets of Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Martin Wayne Flanders, 50, formerly of Roseville, and Ligia Sandoval Spafford, 48, of Roseville, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud for their participation in a fraud scheme that targeted distressed homeowners, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Member Luke Messer (R-IN) today introduced legislation that would exempt schools, colleges, and universities from the health care law’s employer mandate. The Safeguarding Classrooms Hurt by ObamaCare’s Obligatory Levies (SCHOOL) Act (H.R. 769) provides relief to schools burdened by the president’s flawed health care law.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old worker was the second person killed in a year at Madden Bolt Corp. when a cutting-table explosion in August 2014 hurled the employee and a steel plate into the air. The plate then landed on the fallen worker, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators determined. As a result, OSHA has cited the Houston-based employer for 10 serious violations.
