News from February 2015
By EPA Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, February 4, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a discussion draft of the FCC Consolidated Reporting Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District Pennsylvania announced that three men have entered guilty pleas to drug trafficking and firearms offenses for their roles in the importation from Puerto Rico and distribution of kilograms of heroin and cocaine into York, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Tyrone Darnell Butler, a/k/a “Tye," and “Bone," age 44, of Mechanicsville, Maryland today to 10 years in prison: eight years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine base; and an additional two years in prison for violating his supervised release for a previous federal drug conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Community Health Systems Professional Services Corporation (CHSPSC) and three affiliated New Mexico hospitals (collectively CHS) have agreed to pay the United States $75 million to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by making illegal donations to county governments...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James A. Vaughn, 64, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to the misdemeanor offense of misusing Department of Treasury names and symbols. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Vaughn will be sentenced to a year of probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Sentence Resulted from Convictions for Attempted Sexual Exploitation of Minors and Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today entered into an alliance with the Fertilizer Safety and Health Partners and the Environmental Protection Agency to provide safety and health information and training resources to workers, emergency responders and communities surrounding...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Feb. 2, 2015, Peter Alan Karl, 52, West Fargo, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve six years in prison for the receipt of materials involving the sexual exploitation of minors. Judge Erickson also sentenced Karl to a lifetime period of supervised release following his incarceration and ordered him to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Friday, Jan. 30, DAHONTA HILLIARD, 24, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Vast acreage of dry lands may evoke images of desolate, scorched, uninhabitable desert. But the arid and semi-arid dry lands of about half of both the United States' and the world's land surfaces actually are complex ecosystems made up variously of grasses, shrubs, agriculture, and even urban-dwellers.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Katmai National Park and Preserve will host a public meeting and information session on Monday, February 9, 2015 from 7-9 p.m. at the Naknek Native Village Council Building (Dolly’s Hall) in Naknek. Park staff will be available to discuss upcoming construction projects at Brooks Camp, commercial use authorizations, park resources, the NPS centennial initiative in 2016, and changes to the 2015 superintendent’s compendium.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability’s FY 2016 Budget Request is now available. The FY 2016 request reflects the Administration’s priority on modernizing the electric grid and boosting the resilience of infrastructure. The request accelerates ongoing efforts to support the Administration’s...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Participants: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration signed a two-year alliance on Jan. 23, 2015, with the Louisiana Forestry Association and its logging contractors, the Louisiana Logging Council.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS - William J. McBride, Jr., 49, of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to armed bank robberies in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky and Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Had Been Previously Removed. ALBANY, NEW YORK - Ryszard Lachowicz (57, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada) was sentenced Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, to serve 6 months in prison by Senior United States District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Patrol Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Friday, Jan. 30, MAURICE L. MILLIGAN, 36, of New London, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AKIM MURRAY was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 63 months in prison for orchestrating a substantial Medicaid fraud. MURRAY, a former employee of the Medicaid Reimbursement Unit of the New York City...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Feb. 2, 2015 15-006. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Budget Increase Proposed For National Park Service Centennial...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the education proposals in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 Budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2015
News Release: A resident of Middletown, Ohio pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of Conspiracy to Defraud the United States and one count of Introduction of Misbranded Drugs into Interstate Commerce, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
