News from January 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host, on Feb. 18 and 19, 2015, its fourth regional workshop devoted to developing a first-generation framework that will help U.S. communities build resilience to hazard events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that MARY LOUISE FARRIS, a/k/a Mary Louise Allen, age 42, of Roff, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of probation and restitution of $12,999.00 for Theft Of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration today granted two regulatory exemptions for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) operations, including the first for real estate photography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Senior United States District Judge James C. Fox sentenced ANDREW DAVID OWENS, 59, from Fayetteville, North Carolina, to 41 months’ imprisonment followed by 20 years’ supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Introduced into the southeast Atlantic through the U.S. aquarium trade in the 1980s, lionfish have been spotted as far north as southern New England and are firmly established in a range from North Carolina to South America, including the Gulf of Mexico. Lionfish, which are considered an aggressive threat to native fish populations throughout their range, have recently expanded throughout most of the Caribbean in a time span of less than five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The Maple Theater in Bloomfield Township has agreed to improve physical accessibility for people with disabilities at the theater, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
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By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach announced that the Northern District of Ohio collected a record $356.7 million in Fiscal Year 2014 from criminal and civil actions handled exclusively or substantially by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio, more than 20 times the office’s annual budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles-area doctor who was convicted last summer of narcotics trafficking for illegally distributing the powerful painkiller best known by the brand names Vicodin and Norco was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: A Queens, New York, man and his Israeli brother were charged in indictments unsealed today in federal courts in Philadelphia and Brooklyn, New York, with offenses related to a long-running odometer tampering and money laundering scheme, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the former chairman of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement regarding Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s visit to Washington and meeting with President Barack Obama...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Defendant Pleaded Guilty Last Summer To Criminal Copyright Infringement Related To Investor Fraud Case Involving Dynasty Spirits, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. A former attorney who defrauded fourteen former clients was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison. Susan Hense, 54, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, received the prison term after an Oct. 20, 2014, guilty plea to one count of wire fraud. In a plea agreement, Hense...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: CHANNAHON, Ill. - For the third time in two years, a chemical tank cleaning service has exposed workers cleaning portable tank wagons to dangerous confined space hazards. Responding to a complaint, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors found seven repeated and two serious violations at Dedicated TCS LLC's Channahon site. OSHA has proposed penalties of $79,464.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Carroll Webster, III, age 21, and Kayla Parker, age 22, of Wanblee, South Dakota, were sentenced for their convictions of copyright infringement. Senior United States District Court Judge Lyle E. Strom sentenced Webster and Parker to 5 years’ probation. While on probation, Webster and Parker will each have to perform 150 hours of community service and they will each have to pay $500 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Three drug traffickers have been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine stemming from their roles in the delivery of liquid methamphetamine to residences in Austell, Ga., and Mableton, Ga.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, and Nicholas Calio, President and Chief Executive Officer, Airlines for America (A4A) will announce a final FAA rule that will require safety management systems (SMS) for U.S. air carriers. SMS is the formal, top-down, organization-wide approach to managing safety risk and assuring the effectiveness of safety risk controls.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A former civilian employee at McConnell Air Force Base was sentenced Tuesday to three years federal probation for embezzling more than $50,000 in public funds, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, she was ordered to pay approximately $53,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - More than $18,000,000 was seized from accounts connected to the owners of New England Compounding Center (NECC). The funds were seized from 13 different financial institutions, pursuant to 26 seizure warrants issued by the federal court in Boston. The seizure warrants were unsealed today.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 6, 2015
News Release: The Natchez Trace Parkway is home to more than 16,000 brand new tree seedlings, planted near the new intersection of Highway 6 and Parkway milepost 257. “When the new roadway came through, some forest was removed," said Dr. Lisa McInnis, Chief of Resource Management. “This project will restore some of that forested habitat, and provide for scenic protection going into the future.".
