News from February 2015
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: On Thursday, February 26 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), and the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), will hold a joint subcommittee hearing entitled, “The Blacklisting Executive Order: Rewriting Federal Labor Policies Through Executive Fiat." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: To Prison For Fraud, Money Laundering And Tax Evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Case Is Part of United States Attorney Wigginton’s Crack Down on Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: In Del Rio today, former Maverick County Precinct 4 Commissioner Cesar Flores was sentenced to ten years in federal prison for his role in a bribery, kickback and bid-rigging scheme that caused Maverick County to lose more than $1.3 million announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 120,000 metric tons of hard red winter wheat for delivery to Egypt during the 2014/2015 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Joe Gordon, 30, of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 130 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for the Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Demetrice Johnson, 42, of Beckley, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Department of Defense contractor Tangible Software, Inc., owned and operated by Energy Management and Security Solutions, LLC since 2011, has agreed to pay the United States between $500,000 and $1.05 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company submitted false claims to the Department of Defense under prior ownership from 2008 to 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Kenneth R. Morain, 63, of Tulsa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge James H. Payne to 210 months in prison, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, for possessing, receiving, and distributing more than 33,000 image and video files of child pornography, announced United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2015. Indictment Alleges She Embezzled About $885,657.56. SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment late Wednesday afternoon charging Teri Ann Jarvis, aka Teri James, aka Teri Jaris, age 41...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to review her agency’s FY 2016 budget request and priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - A Minnesota man was sentenced to 7 years in prison after stealing firearms from The Fort store in Big Timer. Guy George Parenteau, 57, a convicted felon from the State of Minnesota, received 84 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release in connection to his September 2014 guilty plea to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government Ranking Member José E. Serrano, and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Ranking...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to review her agency’s FY 2016 budget request and priorities.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) made the following statement about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s decision not to testify before Congress ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote on sweeping new regulation of the Internet...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Secretary Jewell, I join with Chairman Calvert in welcoming you to the subcommittee today. I appreciate that you and Deputy Secretary Connor are here to provide insight into the fiscal year 2016 budget request for the Department of the Interior and to answer any questions we may have.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, and possession of firearms by a convicted felon, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for proposing new rules that expand risk management tools to specialty crop and underserved producers currently ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking proposals for new off-range pasture facilities that can provide a free-roaming environment for wild horses removed from Western public lands.Proposals will be accepted from the following states through April 22, 2015: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office is now seeking public comment on the preliminary Environmental Assessment of a proposed OHV trail connection from the Tabeguache Trail to Highway 141 near Whitewater.
