News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released proposed, updated regulations to ensure accurate measurement, accountability, and royalty payments for oil and gas production from Federal and Indian leases. Aimed at preventing theft and loss of these valuable resources, the proposed rule does not impose an unreasonable financial or regulatory burden on industry or the BLM. Public comment on the rule is being sought for 60 days, through Sept. 11, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Ahna M. Wilson has been selected to fill a new position as site manager for Eisenhower National Historic Site (EISE). She is currently historian/cultural resource manager for the Chesapeake &Ohio Canal National Historical Park based in Hagerstown, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Victor Maurice Cook, age 40, of Millersville, Maryland today to a total of seven years in prison. Judge Motz sentenced Cook to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and two years in prison, consecutive to the five year sentence, for violating his supervised release from a previous drug conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: A Miami-Dade County resident pled guilty to filing false refund claims with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced another indictment in connection with a continuing effort to combat stolen identity refund fraud and other tax fraud schemes by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana and the Baton Rouge Office of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Shaun Meyer, 33, of Alton, plead guilty today in the United States District Court to a one-count indictment charging him with Receipt of Child Pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell welcomed President Obama’s designation of the Waco Mammoth Site as one of the nation’s newest national monuments, permanently protecting the site where the extremely well-preserved fossils of a herd of Columbian Mammoths and other Ice Age animals have been found.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - The Department of Justice announced today that the University of Montana Police Department (UMPD) has fully implemented the requirements of its agreement with the department to improve the UMPD’s response to reports of sexual assault. The agreement, which was entered into in May 2013, resolved...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Bio Health Solutions LLC, of Reno, Nevada, and Mark Garrison, its manager, to prevent the distribution of RenAvast, an animal drug that is adulterated, the Department of Justice announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will host a media availability TODAY following the House vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - A federal jury has convicted David T. Matusiewicz, his mother, Lenore Matusiewicz, and his sister, Amy Gonzalez, of interstate stalking and cyberstalking, in violation of federal law. The jury also found all three defendants criminally responsible for the death of Christine Belford, who was murdered in the lobby of the New Castle County Courthouse by co-conspirator Thomas Matusiewicz on Feb. 11, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned a 23-count indictment today against the owner of a Ridgefield, New Jersey, aircraft parts brokering company for his role in a 19-year conspiracy to launder scrapped jet engine parts and for avoiding taxes related to his aircraft parts business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 344-77. The nonpartisan legislation will help to bring our health care system into the 21st Century, investing in science and medical innovation, incorporating the patient perspective, and modernizing clinical trials, to deliver better, faster cures to more patients and loved ones in need.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott S. Allen, Jr., who handled the case, stated that in 2009, the defendant, an employee of a family owned retail business with check cashing operations, was suspected of structuring currency transactions in order to evade reporting requirements mandated by the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Dana J. Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, provided the below statement regarding today’s opinion issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Kenneth Howell, 49, was indicted today on one count of receipt of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography. Howell was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint in May 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, MD-On Monday, July 13, 2015, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will join Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and the Baltimore City Heroin Treatment and Prevention Task Force at a press conference to discuss the urgent need to combat the heroin epidemic and the rising costs of naloxone, a critical drug used by first responders to treat heroin overdoses.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: This morning as the House considers H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, more than 100 patient groups and organizations are voicing their support for the bill’s Innovation Fund to help boost research and support scientists. Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) has led this effort for a year and a half, keeping...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: $87,000 in Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits Received.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined members of Congress, state elected officials, and local business and community leaders in applauding the area's designation of the Basin and Range National Monument on public lands in southeastern Nevada. This national monument -- located in one...
