News from January 2015
By Commerce News Now | Jan 26, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
The US Interior Department published a three page rule on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 26, 2015
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - KTM Industries, Inc. (“KTM"), a Lansing-based company that develops and manufactures biodegradable engineered foam, has agreed to pay $170,923.65 to the federal government to resolve allegations that it fraudulently obtained funding under a National Science Foundation (“NSF")...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) long-term budget outlook should serve as a call to action to take up meaningful structural entitlement reform. The report, which outlines how entitlement spending will cause deficits...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Grand Teton National Park & John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway Superintendent David Vela announced today that the University of Wyoming-National Park Service Research Center Campus Improvements Environmental Assessment (UW-NPS Campus EA)is available for public review and comment. The UW-NPS Campus EA will be open to review from January 28 to Feb. 26, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park continues its tradition of sharing Hawaiian culture and After Dark in the Park programs with the community and visitors in February. All programs are free, but park entrance fees apply. Programs are co-sponsored by the Hawai‘i Pacific Parks Association, and your $2 donation helps support park programs. Mark the calendar for these upcoming events.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Indiana, Pa., was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 23, 2015, to 96 months imprisonment, three years supervised release and $10,206,425 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, forged checks and tax fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS -- America’s foremost authority of training in legal writing, editing, and drafting, Bryan Garner, will be in Billings, Montana on Jan. 26, 2015, for a legal writing workshop for tribal court judges and practitioners. The event is sponsored by the Bureau of Indian Affairs Tribal Court Services...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Jose Luis Zavala-Rodriguez, 23, an undocumented Mexican alien, has been ordered to federal prison for assaulting a Border Patrol agent and transporting undocumented aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Zavala-Rodriguez was found guilty on four counts relating to assaulting a federal agent and alien transporting offenses in federal court on July 25, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John J. Conyers Jr., and Bennie G. Thompson, Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, and Homeland Security respectively, and 53 additional Members sent a letter to President Obama asking that he renew...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Jacquelin Boyd, aka Jacquelyn Boyd, age 37, of West Jordan, entered a guilty plea to making a false claim to the IRS in U.S. District Court Friday afternoon. Boyd admitted that from May 2, 2012, through about Oct. 13, 2012, she worked with others to obtain the names, addresses, social security numbers and other personal identifiers of deceased individuals and used the information to file false and fraudulent tax returns with the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: The Natchez Trace Parkway will close the Mount Locust Historic Home and Information Center (milepost 15.5, 15 miles north of Natchez, MS) from Monday, Feb. 2, 2015 to Wednesday, February 4, 2015. The site will reopen and resume normal hours onThursday, February 5 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Visitors are encouraged to drive the Natchez Trace Parkway, and enjoy the scenic beauty and rich cultural history.
By State Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene the Committee’s first hearing of the 114th Congress, which will examine the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations. The hearing, entitled “Iran Nuclear Negotiations After the Second Extension: Where Are They Going?, " will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow, Jan. 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - JOHN J. TIGHE, age 57, of Milton, New York, pled guilty today in Albany before United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Guang Fa Lin, 47, has entered a guilty plea to one count of using counterfeit access devices, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Lin resided in Houston but has no legal status in the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY -An ambulance services company in Floyd County agreed to pay the U.S. Government $948,000 to settle civil allegations that it billed federal health care programs for medically unnecessary services over the course of several years.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the announcement from the Department of Health and Human Services that the department will shift the Medicare program toward paying providers based on value and quality of care, rather than quantity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: Fort Pierce tax preparer was sentenced today to 81 months, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for preparing tax returns that included fraudulent information. As part of his sentence, the court ordered Maurival to pay $349,992.00, in restitution to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 26, 2015
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Jan. 26, 2015 15-005. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Visitor Found Dead Along Yellowstone Ski Trail. The body...
