News from January 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced the “I Teach" Act which provides a $1,000 refundable tax credit to elementary and secondary school teachers who serve in rural or impoverished public schools. Additionally it offers a $1,000 refundable credit to teachers who achieve National Board certification and provides these certified teachers a $2,000 credit for working in rural or impoverished school districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A southwest suburban Bolingbrook man who was arrested in October, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly attempting to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization operating inside Iraq and Syria, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, MOHAMMED...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Box Elder, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on January 6, 2015, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - MALIK MUHAMMED was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment, a restitution award of $153,101 payable to three automobile insurance companies and a $10,000 fine, for making three false statements to insurance companies about providing medical services to patients when no chiropractor was working at the clinic or the clinic was actually closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to the Nebraska Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the route of the Keystone XL pipeline.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to raise entrance, campground, and Fiery Furnace fees at Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and input regarding strategies to manage vehicle congestion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Porcupine, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: Individual was sentenced for his role in illegal mortgage fraud kick-back scheme, which resulted in his and his co-conspirators fraudulently obtaining $3,000,000 in 12 fraudulent mortgage loans at Marina Oaks Condominiums.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Roberto Rivera-Ortiz, 28, a resident of the New York City area, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington following his guilty plea to a charge that he made false statements to members of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Luis Pavao, 60, a citizen of Portugal and most recently a resident of Ayer, Massachusetts, has been sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 51 months in prison after a jury found him guilty in an investment fraud scheme that involved the use of the mails and interstate travel, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement regarding news that Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) had filed an application to swap different grades of petroleum with the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that LARRY D. BUTLER, age 49, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has pled guilty to two counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343, and false representation of a social security number, in violation of Title...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. January 9, 2015 15-001. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Visitation Tops 3 Million For Eighth Straight...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led a group of 46 senators to introduce a resolution to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Medicare and Medicaid, which became law in 1965. Wyden also delivered a statement Wednesday marking the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s message to Congress where he outlined his principles for health reform that would result in the creation of Medicare and Medicaid.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below after the Nebraska Supreme Court overturned a lower-court ruling that blocked a state law giving the governor the ability to unilaterally approve the route of the ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today announced his senior staff selections.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) today was given unanimous support from his colleagues on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to become chairman for the 114th Congress. In conjunction, Inhofe announced today top priorities for the EPW Committee as well as announced staff hires to serve the EPW majority.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a proposal to raise entrance, campground, and Fiery Furnace fees at Arches and Canyonlands national parks, and input regarding strategies to manage vehicle congestion.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member, Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senator Ben Cardin, D-Md., today unveiled legislation that provides the Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) explicit authority to regulate paid tax return preparers.
