News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A licensed pharmacist was sentenced today to 78 months in prison for attempting to weaponize the lethal toxins ricin and abrin and for possessing a prohibited flask intending to use it to manufacture illegal narcotics, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: ST. LOUIS - The Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division takes the prize with two Regional Winners in the 2014, National Red Ribbon Photo Contest. The Larson Family in Gayville, South Dakota and the Clark family in Sigourney, Iowa both had the winning entries for this year’s theme “Love Yourself and Be Drug Free." This is the second win in a row for the Clark family, who says that they use the contest as a way to have family time focused around a positive message.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - Senior U.S. District Judge John Antoon, II today sentenced Donald Ray Babb (58, Merritt Island) and Ralph Victor Ruth (61, Melbourne) to ten years and one month in federal prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The Court also ordered the forfeiture of their interest in the following...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TRENISE DEBOUE MURPHY, age 52, of New Orleans, was charged in a one-count Bill of Information with conspiracy to commit theft of government funds.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, commended the Administration’s commitment to fostering economic opportunity and hope in the Northern Triangle - Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador - and addressing the root causes...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: The Federal grazing fee for 2015 will be $1.69 per animal unit month (AUM) for public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and $1.69 per head month (HM) for lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The 2014 fee was $1.35.An AUM or HM "treated as equivalent measures for fee purposes" is...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of February 2. The committee will conduct oversight of the U.S. public health response to seasonal influenza and examine H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Jan. 30, 2015, Youde Li, 42, Bismarck, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland to time served and three years’ supervised release on four counts of tax evasion. Judge Hovland also ordered that Li pay $400 to the Crime Victims Fund as well as paying restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: A St. Lucie County resident was sentenced to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Expansion is Part of the HOPE Initiative that Seeks to Address Heroin and Opioid Epidemic in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A man who held a federal firearms dealer’s license and owned an indoor shooting range in Reno, Nev., has pleaded guilty to charges that he unlawfully sold multiple firearms, including guns with obliterated serial numbers and machine guns, to undercover ATF agents at his business in April and May 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada and ATF Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Riehl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Many resident was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing a shotgun and ammunition after being convicted of multiple felonies.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Energy Department finalized the sale of the historic Teapot Dome Oilfield located 35 miles north of Casper, Wyoming to Stranded Oil Resources Corporation, a subsidiary of Alleghany Capital Corporation. More than $45 million in proceeds from the sale of the oilfield - known officially as the Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 3 (NPR-3) - will be deposited into the U.S. Treasury.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of February 2. The committee will conduct oversight of the U.S. public health response to seasonal influenza and examine H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MICHAEL SAPERA, a resident of Mandeville, Louisiana, was charged today in a four-count Bill of Information with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1344, 1028A, and 1343. SAPERA committed these violations when he embezzled approximately $2.8 million from his employer over a 19-year period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that PATRICIA ANN RABORN age 56, of Ardmore, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Theft of Government Funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 641 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Rocio Contreras-Loya, 40, of Sante Fe Springs, California, 31, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Sentencing is set for April 27, 2015, before Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Republican leaders in the House and Senate today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell amidst growing concerns about the security and privacy of consumer information shared on HealthCare.gov. This letter follows a Sept. 17, 2014, letter to the Centers for...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce the completion of the Devils Postpile National Monument General Management Plan (GMP) which will provide long-term guidance for management of the monument.
