News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The ship and its crew will investigate deeper waters in and around Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, and the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and a member of the Whistleblower Protection Caucus, released the following statement in recognition of National Whistleblower Protection Day...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Eleven people were indicted this week on conspiracy charges for their alleged roles in a methamphetamine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Ippolito, Jr., who is handling the case, stated that Hernandez fraudulently obtained the actual credit/debit card numbers of people and then encoded counterfeit cards with the information illegally obtained. The defendant and his co-conspirators then used the counterfeit...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: MILWAUKEE - Proper safety guards would have stopped a 1,500-pound steel roller before it crushed and killed a 59-year-old maintenance worker, but his employer did not use them, a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspection has found.
By State Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing on the implications of sanctions relief in the Iran nuclear deal, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned language in the agreement could allow Tehran to effectively block future sanctions, including for terrorism, by ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted an Ohio man for illegally receiving about 1,340 M228 grenade fuzes in Blount County last year, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that RYAN TOMAZIN, the founder and managing partner of R2 Capital Group LLC (“R2 Capital"), pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to a two-count Indictment charging him with defrauding investors and misappropriating...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, and the Friends of Whiskeytown invite everyone to join the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area at “Symphony on the Beach!" The celebration will be held on Aug. 22, 2015 beginning at 7 p.m. at Brandy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 31-year-old Houston woman has been sentenced for bringing prohibited drugs into a federal prison in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: CONCORD - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Roger Perkins, 31, of Methuen, Massachusetts and Windyann Plunkett, 32, of Laconia, New Hampshire pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 28 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack") ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Goebel and Krause recently sat down to tell us more...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today thanked her committee colleagues for their hard work and support of the broad, bipartisan energy legislation that she compiled with Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the panel’s ranking member.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Jason Dean Barnes (39, Jacksonville) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. His detention hearing is scheduled for Aug. 3, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement regarding the Highway Trust Fund...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 58-year-old Berwick man was sentenced today to 200 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo in Wilkes-Barre, for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Submitted False Financial Records to His Investors.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: The July/August 2015 issue of FAA Safety Briefing highlights the many unique opportunities that general aviation flying enables in all four corners of our great nation. Articles in this issue help prepare pilots for what to expect when traveling outside their home airspace in terms of plan, pilot, and plane.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today thanked her colleagues on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee for supporting her broad, bipartisan energy legislation and a separate measure she introduced to grant Alaska and other coastal states a share of the revenue from offshore oil and gas activity.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 30, 2015
News Release: Lightning likely started a fire approximately 1,000 feet above Five Mile Camp near Goode Mountain in Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. The Goode Fire was detected Wednesday and was estimated to be approximately 2 acres in size. Fire access is difficult due to high cliffs and steep terrain. With continued high temperatures and dry weather, firefighters will monitor the situation and call in additional resources as needed.
