News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Robert Samuel Stark, age 48, of West Valley City will serve a 151-month federal prison sentence for coercion and enticement of a minor for illegal sexual activity and distribution of child pornography. U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups imposed the sentence in federal court last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters was sentenced on February 6, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Robert Downing, a/k/a “Luck," and “Shamrock," age 46, and Michael Wesley Lee, a/k/a “King," or “King P," age 31, both of Odenton, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to use of an interstate facility to promote a prostitution business. Lee also pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit sex trafficking by force and fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an effort to address the nation’s backlog of abandoned mine cleanups and ensure taxpayers get a fair share from public lands mining, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) introduced the Hardrock Mining Reform and Reclamation Act of 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Charged with Embezzling Money from Bank of the West, Two Indian Tribal Organizations and Several Individual Account Holders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reintroduced bipartisan legislation to reform U.S. global food assistance programs that will free up as much as $440 million annually through greater efficiencies in delivering aid, allowing the U.S. to reach an estimated eight to twelve million more people, in a shorter time period.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the proposed Greater Mooses Tooth Unit project (GMT1), opening the way for the first production of oil and gas from federal lands in the 23-million acre National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Irvington, New Jersey, man was charged today with brandishing a firearm while stealing a car in Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to President Obama’s Executive Order on Promoting Private Sector Cybersecurity Information Sharing...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Utah today posted the list of parcels proposed for auction at the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for May 19, 2015 in Salt Lake City. Posting initiates a 30-day public protest period.The list includes 13 proposed parcels covering 15,051 acres...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Gunnison Field Office is accepting comments on a Resource Management Plan Amendment and associated Environmental Impact Statement to assess domestic sheep grazing allotments within Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: Meals And Travel Provided To Doctors In Violation Of Anti-Kickback Statute.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today joined together to sign S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. The bill will soon head to the president’s desk. Upon completion of the bill’s enrollment ceremony, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following column...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A long-time Chicago psychiatrist pleaded guilty today to a federal crime for receiving illegal kickbacks and benefits totaling nearly $600,000 from pharmaceutical companies in exchange for regularly prescribing the anti-psychotic drug clozapine to his patients. The defendant, Dr. MICHAEL J.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO − A man who allegedly sex trafficked an underage girl by force was charged in a criminal complaint in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The defendant, ALLEN C. IROEGBULEM, 24, of Roselle, Illinois, was charged with sex trafficking of a minor. The charges were announced today by Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois and Robert J. Holley, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate leaders today joined together to sign S.1, the Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act. The bill will soon head to the president’s desk. Upon completion of the bill’s enrollment ceremony, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following column...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wisconsin man charged with Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding pled guilty to and was sentenced on Feb. 12, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Mark Moreno.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In case you missed it, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, discussed his ongoing oversight to address the over-prescribing of psychotropic drugs to children in America’s foster care systems. His remarks were part of a briefing...
