News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Ramon Cano, 28, a former correctional officer at the Taft Federal Correctional Facility was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Anthony W. Ishii yesterday to 30 months in prison for conspiracy to provide and possess contraband in prison in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 371 and 201(b)(1), United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On Feb. 23, 2015, a Wasilla man was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 84 months in federal prison for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Philadelphia -Independence National Historical Park is the grateful recipient of another generous gift from Clare Duane Ellis and Wiley Ellis of South Carolina. The Franklin Family Bible, printed in 1763, has been on display in the Benjamin Franklin Museum since the museum opened in 2013. Thanks to the support of the Ellis family, the Bible, which was on a short term loan, will now be on long term display in the museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: William J. O’Brien III, 49 of Philadelphia was charged today by Superseding Indictment with 23 additional counts of illegally distributing oxycodone, methadone, and amphetamines, all Schedule II controlled substances, outside the usual course of professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved two pieces of bipartisan legislation as part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to protect the public health and streamline government to better function in the 21st century.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), and full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released a discussion draft of legislation to extend the critically important State Children’s Health Insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Clearfield, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 15 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on her conviction of conspiracy to defraud the government, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Bureau of Reclamation Security, Safety and Law Enforcement Director Bruce C. Muller named Karen Knight, P.E., as the Chief of the Dam Safety Office. Knight will oversee the Dam Safety Program, which evaluates safety deficiencies and implements proactive solutions at dams across Reclamation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Huntsville police officer pleaded guilty today in federal court to taking part in a conspiracy to fix cocaine trafficking charges against an individual arrested by another Huntsville officer, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Huntsville Police Chief Lewis Morris.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Republican leaders today sent a letter to President Obama regarding the administration’s proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage program. The administration has repeatedly threatened the popular Medicare Advantage program, leading to higher costs and fewer choices for...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Thaddeus Cheyenne Murphy, age 44, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI, ATF and Colorado Springs Police Department announced. Murphy is believed responsible for placing a device at 603 South El Paso Street...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Simon Nicholas Sais, 44, of Roswell, N.M., pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking charges. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: A jury today returned guilty verdicts against Mykhaylo Botsvynyuk, and his brother Yaroslav Botsvynyuk, a/k/a Yaroslav Churuk, both Ukrainian nationals living in Canada, on the charge of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with a human trafficking scheme. They face up...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Steven Anthony Major, 50, from Barboursville, West Virginia, pleaded guilty to threatening to murder United States Senator Joseph Manchin, III.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved two pieces of bipartisan legislation as part of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to protect the public health and streamline government to better function in the 21st century.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today delivered the following remarks at the Forum on Economic Challenges Facing the Middle Class, hosted by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Congressman Elijah Cummings...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s veto of S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: A new Spanish peanut variety that packs high levels of healthful oleic acid has been released by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and university cooperators. The new variety, called OLé, could provide producers and consumers with a peanut that has disease resistance, longer shelf life and heart-healthy qualities.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s veto of S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement in response to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s testimony before the U.S. Senate...
