News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - Regional Hospital of Jackson has agreed to pay the United States $510,000 to resolve allegations that it billed Medicare and Medicaid for unnecessary cardiac procedures over an eight-year period.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Today the BLM announced that it will be extending the public comment period for the Draft Resource Management Plan (RMP)/Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for western Oregon. The comment period that was originally slated to end on July 23, will now end on Aug. 21, 2015.“We heard from well over 30...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Tyson Gregory Fortner, 36, of Portland, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Marco A. Hernandez to 120 months in prison following his federal conviction for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the defendant is released from prison, he will serve five years of supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a Draft Environmental Assessment for a proposal to exchange Refuge Level 2 water for Panoche Water District’s groundwater.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: VANCOUVER, WA - The National Park Service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will host its popular evening of 1860s vintage base ball at 6:00 pm on Saturday, July 25, 2015, on the national park's historic Parade Ground.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Marcos Cruz-Diaz, 34, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with obstruction of justice for allegedly tipping off the target of an Internal Revenue Investigation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Pleasantville, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 110 months in prison for his involvement in a scheme to distribute heroin in around Atlantic County, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Maria J. Rodriguez, 45, of Smyrna, Tenn.; Regulo Aldama-Olivares, 26, and Carlos Sanchez-Aldama, 30, both of Mexico; and Marcelino Lainez-Villalobos, 38, of Honduras; each admitted conspiring with one other, and with other persons between January 2011 and June 2014 to defraud the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
Release: Washington, DC, July 14, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has declared Aug. 2 through 8, 2015, as "National Farmers Market Week." The declaration was made official by proclamation signed by Secretary Vilsack. This year marks the 16th annual National Farmers Market Week in honor of the important...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Richard Burr, R-N.C., chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, today sent a letter to the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, supporting the intelligence community’s ongoing assessment of the geopolitical impacts coming from the current domestic energy renaissance. Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and Mark Kirk, R-Ill., also signed the letter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Oversight Hearing on the Department of Homeland Security
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Bowling Green armed career criminal was sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by 5 years of Supervised Release by United States District Court Judge Greg N. Stivers, for conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana, cocaine and cocaine base, possession of a firearm by a convicted...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the last-minute addition of significant data into the record ahead of the commission’s consideration of procedures for the upcoming spectrum incentive auction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, after repeated efforts to work with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz issued a subpoena to Administrator Howard Shelanski to produce documents and communications related to the agency’s review of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Reach Groundbreaking Settlement to Resolve Allegations of Auto Lending Discrimination by Honda.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Vietnamese national was sentenced to 13 years in prison for hacking into U.S. businesses’ computers, stealing personally identifiably information (PII), and selling to other cybercriminals his fraudulently-obtained access to PII belonging to approximately 200 million U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mark E. Patterson, 47, of Wellsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for wire fraud. United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Eastern National, a partner to the National Park Service, would like to invite you to meet author Lawrence K. Peterson Saturday, July 25, 2015 inside the Visitor Center at Chickamauga Battlefield.Peterson will be available to sign his book, Confederate Combat Commander: The Remarkable Life of Brigadier General Alfred Jefferson Vaughan, Jr. beginning at 10:00 a.m. with a special presentation at 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: A convicted felon who possessed a firearm and ammunition on the streets of Cedar Rapids last October was sentenced today to ten years in federal prison, the statutory maximum sentence possible for his crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2015
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have come up with a way to shrink a research instrument generally associated with large machines that make bulk measurements of samples down to a literally pinpoint-precision probe. The team's electron spin resonance (ESR) probe...
