News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Another feeding program sponsor has been indicted for his role in a scheme to steal federal money. Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Michael R. Lee, age 24, of Little Rock, was arrested Wednesday following the filing of a 20-count indictment.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - “How do we grab America’s attention with numbers?" Chairman Johnson asked Thursday, addressing Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Director Keith Hall during a hearing focused on America’s long-term fiscal situation. Before introducing Hall as the hearing’s sole witness, Johnson said he and...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is extending the public comment period for its Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) of the Southern California Metroplex project to September 8, 2015, to allow for a full 90 days of comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Six Houstonians are in custody on wide-ranging charges involving a $12 million conspiracy to commit health care fraud and to pay kickbacks, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The arrests were made in conjunction with a search warrant executed at a downtown office building where several clinics and a blood testing laboratory were located.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Allegedly Embezzled More than $200,000 from Asset Forfeiture Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -A $1.5 million construction project will begin at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in late July to extend launch ramps at Lake Mead.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a committee hearing addressing the implications of a nuclear agreement with Iran...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Today the White House released a fact sheet on manufacturing that highlights efforts of NIST's Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to help tribal communities across the country enhance their energy security, build a sustainable energy future, and combat climate change, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced that five Native American Tribes will receive on-the-ground technical support from DOE’s Strategic Technical Assistance Response Team (START) Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former correctional officer at the Jackson County Detention Center has been indicted by a federal grand jury for violating an inmate’s civil rights by using unreasonable force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - With the guilty pleas of two more men today, four people now stand convicted for the take-over robbery of the Shell Federal Credit Union that occurred March 19, 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. along with the full Senate Democratic Caucus today unveiled legislation providing equal dignity for all legal marriages in the tax code. The bill, the “Equal Dignity for Married Taxpayers Act" sets new precedent by removing gender-specific references to marriage, enshrining dignity and recognition for LGBTQ Americans in the tax code.
By State Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the passage by the French Parliament of an agreement between the United States and France to provide compensation to several thousand U.S. and other citizens who were victims of the Nazis and deported from France during the Holocaust...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Matthew Lowry, 33, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for various crimes arising from his stealing drug evidence while working as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"). Lowry pleaded guilty, on March 31, 2015, to 20 counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, WILLIE RIGGS GODFREY, III, 44of Winterville, North Carolina, was sentenced before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle. GODFREY received 125 months imprisonment followed by a 10 year term of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a federal inmate pleaded guilty to possessing a weapon in a federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: MOLINE, Ill. - Job reinstatement, back wages and damages are sought for a pipefitter previously employed by John Deere, who was terminated from the Moline facility after reporting unsafe working conditions to the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Bogdan K. Stepien, 34, of Richboro, PA, was charged today by indictment with running a Ponzi scheme in which he claimed to be a successful “day trader" and recruited friends and family members to “invest" with him. Stepien is charged with 19 counts of wire fraud, three counts of aggravated identity theft, and four counts of passing counterfeit and forged checks, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the U.S. District Court has reversed a series of orders entered by the local bankruptcy court that had impeded efforts by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), to terminate a skilled...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today released the Draft Regional Mitigation Strategy for the 25,069-acre Dry Lake Valley North Solar Energy Zone (SEZ) in Lincoln County, Nevada. The BLM is asking the public to review and provide comments on the draft strategy, which can be found on the Dry Lake...
