News from January 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 15, 2015 - House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today announced the subcommittee chairmen and rosters for the Committee’s Republican members during the 114th Congress. Details for the Committee’s formal organizational meeting will be announced in the near future.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Update: The Wednesday, January 21st meeting location to discuss the Haleakala NP Foundation Document has been changed to the Hannibal Tavares Community Center in Pukalani. The meeting time is still 5-6:30pm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Jan. 15, 2015, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee celebrated the 225th Birthday of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Tennessee, by holding a reception in the Knoxville headquarters office. Early history of the office dates back to 1790. Tennessee remained a unified district until 1805 when the state was divided into three districts, the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned five (5) indictments arising from an investigation into the transportation of illegal aliens through the Middle District of Louisiana.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will sponsor a burro adoption event on Saturday, January 24 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Oliver Ranch in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Blue Diamond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury in Cincinnati has charged Jeremy S. Hanshaw, 36, of Coal Grove, Ronald S. Hatfield, 25, of Waterloo, and Jason D. Mays, 22, of South Point, with conspiring to deprive, and depriving, an arrestee of civil rights while acting under the color of law as deputies of the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Superintendent Walter J. Chavez announces nine more reasons to enjoy San Juan National Historic Site. "On Monday, January19, 2015 we celebrate the life and life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King", said Superintendent Chavez. Additionally we will have the opportunity for eight more days during this...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) issued the following statement on the federal court ruling that would strike down a Department of Labor rule to extend minimum wage and overtime protections to home care workers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On January 12 and 13, 2015 a Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned 39 separate Indictments charging one doctor, Luis Escabi-Pérez, and 39 other individuals for fraud in the application process for Social Security Administration (SSA) disability insurance benefits in Puerto Rico, announced United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Winton Harris, 31, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 21 years and 10 months in prison for possessing more than 163 grams of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Blandburg, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation, the first 12 months of which must be served by conditions of home confinement, on his conviction of unlawful possession of a firearm which had the serial number removed, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Mount Rainier National Park Superintendent Randy King advises that entrance fees to Mount Rainier National Park will be waived for the upcoming federal holiday on Jan. 19, which honors Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This is the first of six fee waiver events scheduled for 2015. The others are.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: National Park Service compendiums for Alaska will be open for a 30-day public comment period. A compendium - one for each NPS area in Alaska -- is a compilation of all designations, closures and restrictions adopted under the discretionary authority within the regulations covering national parks. This regulatory tool helps manage Alaska's national park areas for the public's enjoyment, use and protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Savannah, GA: Eric Arrana-Garcia, 39, a citizen of Mexico who previously lived in Blackshear, Georgia, was sentenced last week by United States District Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to 18 years in prison for his role in a meth conspiracy operating in southeast Georgia and elsewhere. Arrana-Garcia is the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An inmate at SCI-Houtzdale, located in Houtzdale, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty and was sentenced in federal court in Pittsburgh on a charge of forging a judge’s signature, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. United States Attorney Kevin W. Techau announced today that the Northern District of Iowa collected $3,760,255.36 in criminal and civil actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2014 (FY 2014). Of this amount, $1,611,824.88 was collected in criminal actions and $2,148,430.48...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A highly-skilled computer science engineer, YIHAO PU, who a prosecutor said “meticulously planned and brazenly executed" stealing sensitive trade secrets from two former employers ― a trading firm in New Jersey and later Citadel, LLC, a Chicago-based financial firm ― was sentenced today to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that April.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 31-year-old Wilkes-Barre man was sentenced to five years in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking felony.
