News from February 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is good to be here this afternoon at the first of the subcommittee’s seven scheduled hearings.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, joined Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and 12 other colleagues to introduce the Federal Employee Retroactive Pay Fairness Act of 2015 (S.554) Tuesday evening. This legislation would guarantee...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Von Simmonds, 32, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced today to 35 months for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine base in Vermont during the winter of 2012-2013. Chief Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Simmonds serve a three-year period of supervised release after his incarceration.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - To raise awareness of the need for adequate protections against retaliation for private sector and government employees who call attention to wrongdoing, a bipartisan group of senators today launched the Whistleblower Protection Caucus. The caucus will foster bipartisan discussion on legislative...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 25, 2015, Dr. Dong Pyou Han appeared in United States District Court before the Honorable Celeste F. Bremer and pled guilty to two counts of making false statements to the National Institutes of Health, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives is currently debating the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), legislation to reduce the federal footprint in education, restore local control, and empower parents and local schools. House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) highlighted the challenges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Jesuit Priest Richard James Kurtz, 69, formerly of Clarkston, Michigan, pleaded guilty today to transportation of child pornography, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Timothy Charles Burnette, 45, Erik Jones, 27, both of Morgantown, West Virginia, and Terri Shuttlesworth, 24, of Fairmont, West Virginia were convicted in federal court today for their role in a Pennsylvania to West Virginia prescription painkiller distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Patrick C. Harris, Attorney for the United States, Acting Under Authority Conferred by 28 U.S.C. §515, Jack McQuary, Special Prosecutor for the State of Arkansas and Special Assistant United States Attorney, David T. Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Austin Lee, age 21, of Dallas, Georgia; Morris O. Mega, age 31, of Smyrna, Georgia; and Edward N. Pope, age 24, of Roswell, Georgia each have entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, to conspiracy to manufacture...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service recently released the Administration’s initial guidance on the “Cadillac plan tax," a forty percent non-deductible excise tax on certain health care plans created by the President’s health care law. The non-deductible excise tax,...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Michael Justin Hoopes, 41, of Rexburg, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to wire fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hoopes pleaded guilty pre-indictment to a criminal information filed by the U.S. Attorney.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Feb. 25, 2015, James Currey, 55, of Orlando, FL, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. The investigation determined that Currey was a telemarketer for National Solutions and related companies from October 7, 2010 until June 10, 2011.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking nominations for the 2015 Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards. The deadline to submit nominations is April 22, 2015.“The BLM awards program showcases sustainable development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: GREENVILLE, Tenn. - Ten individuals were indicted on Feb. 10, 2015, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, theft of public money and money laundering conspiracy, in a 10-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury in Greenville, Tenn. Those indicted include.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Chief Dine, welcome back to the subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin announced that MOZAFFAR KHAZAEE, 60, formerly...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: “A Review of the Department of Homeland Security’s Policies and Procedures for the Apprehension, Detention, and Release of Non-Citizens Unlawfully Present in the United States"
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is accepting comments on preliminary design concepts aimed at.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to murder an informant in retaliation for providing information to law enforcement officers.
