News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia announced Antonio Hernandez-Vilar, aged 44; Eduardo Rodriguez-Martinez, aged 41; Gustavo Hernandez-corona, aged 48; and Aquiles Alvarez-Valdes, aged 40, all from Tampa, Florida, were sentenced on Feb. 25, 2015 by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Court Judge, in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today criticized U.S. Forest Service Chief Thomas Tidwell’s 2016 budget request for its lack of willingness to actively manage federal forests for the benefit of those communities impacted by forestry lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a former correctional officer at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., along with the daughter of an inmate were sentenced for their roles in a conspiracy to bribe a correctional officer to smuggle cell phones into the prison. Federal inmates are prohibited from possessing cell phones.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to join you in welcoming my friend and fellow North Carolinian, Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx. I am familiar with his many accomplishments as Mayor of Charlotte, and I know we are lucky to have him leading DOT. Mr. Secretary, your work in the rapidly growing...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FY 2016 Performance Budget Request." Witnesses will include the Chairman and four Commissioners of the CPSC.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Five people were indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiracy and passing counterfeit U.S. currency, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Outer Banks Group Superintendent David Hallac announced today that Oregon Inlet, Frisco, and Ocracoke Campgrounds will open to the public on Friday, April 17, 2015.Oregon Inlet and Frisco Campgrounds will close at noon on Oct. 12, 2015 and Ocracoke Island Campground will close at noon on Oct. 26, 2015.Cape Point Campground in Buxton, on Hatteras Island, will open Friday, May 22, 2015 for Memorial Day weekend and closes at noon on September 7, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: On Feb. 25, 2015, Rusty J. Smith, 36, of Cobden, IL, was sentenced for a methamphetamine violation, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. March 3-5: Live Webinars on the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy's FY2016 Budget Request. Webinar Sponsor: Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The Energy Department's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will present a series of live webinars...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Stokley Austin, age 33, of Marrero, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to distribution and possession with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride and a quantity of cocaine (“crack"), possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PHILIP BRYANT, also known as “Phat Phil" and “Fizzy," 28, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the FY 2016 Performance Budget Request." Witnesses will include the Chairman and four Commissioners of the CPSC.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Feb. 26, 2015BOS 2015-035. NEW YORK - Employees of a Duane Reade store on 6th Avenue in Manhattan would have been unable to exit the store swiftly and safely in the event of a fire or other emergency, a September 2014 inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Every trained law enforcement investigator will tell you the best way to dismantle a criminal enterprise is to seize its ill-gotten gains. To do that, they must follow the money trail to find out where it’s hidden and how it was laundered.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today responded to the FCC’s vote in favor of utility-style regulation of the Internet...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing to examine abusive patent demand letters. While legitimate patent assertion is a long-recognized tool for protecting intellectual property, bad actors have made a lucrative business by sending thousands of vague letters that demand recipients purchase a license for a large amount of money or risk being sued.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Steven Ray, 49 of Brockport, NY, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count of forging treasury checks before U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson. The mail fraud charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both. Forging treasury checks carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Michael Paul Watkins (41, Citrus Springs) today pleaded guilty to possessing firearms and ammunition as a previously convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing hearing has not yet been set.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology today responded to the FCC’s vote in favor of utility-style regulation of the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Springfield man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with using a firearm to threaten his parents.
