News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Feb. 10, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2015
News Release: The Natchez Trace Parkway is closed between mileposts 355 and 370 and between milepost 429 and the northern terminus in Tennessee. A mixture of sleet, freezing rain, ice and snow has fallen on much of the Parkway today. Falling temperatures will cause additional hazards. While the greatest area of impact is on the middle to northern end of the Parkway, travelers should avoid traveling on the entire Natchez Trace Parkway.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 15, 2015
News Release: Feb. 15, 2015 Contact: DOT Contact: Suzi Emmerling Phone: 202-365-1763 FAA Contact: Laura J Brown Phone: 202-359-3680 WASHINGTON – The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned ...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2015
News Release: We have a new phone number for this call: 202 493 4180 passcode 6238#
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration today proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in today’s aviation system, while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has announced that a 16 count Criminal Information has been filed against Francis McBride, age 27 of Scranton, Pennsylvania, charging him with bank robbery, attempted bank robbery and interference with commerce by threats or violence.
By State Newswire | Feb 15, 2015
News Release: “I think there is a lot of skepticism about the administration's commitment to dealing with ISIS… so we are going to have the opportunity to look at that, to look at what is happening in Iraq, and then hopefully…create language that can, in fact, pass muster in both houses of Congress."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2015
News Release: Release Date: 14 February 2015. Contacts: Stephanie Steinhorst, stephanie_steinhorst@nps.gov, 229 924-0343, ext. 203. NR15-02. Living History Weekend at Andersonville National Historic Site. Explore the prisoner experience at Andersonville during the 150th Anniversary. ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2015
News Release: WHEN: 10 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 15, 2015
By Interior Newswire | Feb 14, 2015
News Release: ROOSEVELT, AZ-Tonto National. Monument Celebrates Heritage Days on March 14 &15. Tonto National Monument will join the statewide celebration of Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month by hosting Heritage Days on Saturday, March 14 and Sunday, March 15.This weekend's activities will include various...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Feb. 17-19, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Deputy Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and other senior members of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will participate in the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama approved a consent order yesterday afternoon filed by the Justice Department, together with private plaintiffs and the Calhoun County, Alabama, School District, finding that the district has met its desegregation obligations in certain areas and providing for additional, comprehensive relief in the areas of faculty and staff hiring and recruitment as well as student discipline and school climate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice filed a statement of interest today with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama in Varden v. City of Clanton. In this class action litigation, the plaintiff alleges that incarcerating individuals solely because of their inability to pay a cash bond violates the U.S. Constitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Three MS-13 gang members were sentenced today to federal prison for violent crimes that they committed on behalf of the gang, including the 2006 murder of a rival gang member and 2008 shooting of a teenage boy, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Assistant Attorney General John P. Carlin of the National Security Division and U.S. Attorney S. Amanda Marshall of the District of Oregon announced today that Reaz Qadir Khan, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen residing in Portland, Oregon, pleaded guilty to the crime of accessory after the fact for providing ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: A computer programmer for the Mega copyright piracy conspiracy, Andrus Nomm, 36, of Estonia, pleaded guilty today in connection with his involvement with Megaupload.com and associated piracy websites. He was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for conspiring to commit felony copyright infringement.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: A federal court in Dayton, Ohio, has entered a permanent injunction against a tax return preparer that requires him to sign tax returns and furnish his Preparer Tax Identification Number (PTIN) on returns he prepares, as well as retain a list or copy of each of the returns that he prepares, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that an Illinois physician, Dr. Michael J. Reinstein, pleaded guilty to a federal crime for receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits totaling nearly $600,000 from two pharmaceutical companies in exchange for regularly prescribing an anti-psychotic drug — clozapine ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Timothy Flanagan, 33, was sentenced to nine months and ordered to pay a $5000 fine in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, for his role in the Apr. 30, 2012, cross burning in front of an interracial family’s home in Minor Hill, Tennessee, the Department of Justice announced. Flanagan previously pleaded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Friday regarding the tragic killings of three university students this week in Chapel Hill, North Carolina: “Like all Americans, I was shocked and saddened by this week’s heinous murders of three young people in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I join President Obama in offering my deep sympathies to the friends and loved ones of Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, Deah Shaddy Barakat, and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.
