News published on Federal Newswire in February 2015

News from February 2015


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Daniel Williams, 36, of Marion, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court on gun charges. Federal law prohibits possession of a firearm by a person who had been committed to a mental institution, and court documents showed that Williams had been committed by an Alabama state judicial officer ...


News Release: Case Brought under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative; Raymond Castillo Faces Mandatory Life Sentence if Convicted.


News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging MICHAEL RONALD GARANT, 42, for acting as a straw purchaser of three firearms for Ray Kmetz. GARANT is charged by complaint with making a false statement to acquire firearms on behalf of another person.[1] GARANT will appear today before Magistrate Judge Steven Rau in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.


Cummings Issues Statement on House Floor  Opposing GOP Special-Interest Bill

News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 50, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act.


News Release: MIAMI - A.D. Wright, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Amos Rojas, Jr., U.S. Marshal, U.S. Marshals (USMS), Hugo Barrera, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and (ATF), John Burke and Troy...


Shuster, Inhofe Call for Withdrawal of WOTUS Rule

News Release: U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chairman of the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, released the following joint statement with U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, following today’s Senate-House hearing on the Administration’s proposed rule to expand federal regulation of waters under the Clean Water Act and the proposal’s potential impacts on state and local governments...


Delray Beach Doctor Charged with Health Care Fraud

News Release: A Delray Beach doctor has been charged with eight counts of health care fraud.


NOAA, USFWS, North Carolina to restore natural resources affected by wood treatment plant

News Release: The jointly recovered funds will be used in a multi-year effort to restore natural resources and habitats injured by the release of hazardous substances from the former Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. wood treatment facility in Navassa, North Carolina. The trustees also received an earlier disbursement of $915,836 for the site.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eddieberto Garcia, 36, of Oceanside, Calif., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 97 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Garcia’s crime of conviction involved possession of approximately two kilograms of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.


7 Charged In Pasadena Bank Robbery

News Release: HOUSTON - A federal grand jury has returned a two-count indictment against seven local men in connection with the armed robbery of the Shared Resources Credit Union at 2102 SH 225 in Pasadena on July 28, 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Lehigh County Couple Charged In Scheme To Defraud The Government

News Release: Yujie Ding, 52, and Yuliya Zotova, 40, of Center Valley, Pennsylvania, were charged by indictment, unsealed today, with ten counts of wire fraud related to a government program meant to increase research and development opportunities for small businesses, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.


News Release: ERIE, Pa. - Twenty individuals from various locations in the United States have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie and/or have been arrested on charges of violating federal drug laws, retaliation against a witness or informant, and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.


ENGEL OPENING STATEMENT AT CUBA HEARING

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing on the Administration’s shift in policy toward Cuba...