News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Michelle Robyn Freytag, 47, of Missouri City, has pleaded guilty to defrauding her former employer - a Houston businessman - of more than $1.3 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Glimpses of the Past:July 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Joseph Shepherd and United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that two men were sentenced for their roles in a cocaine and methamphetamine distribution ring operating in Caddo and Bossier parishes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican woman was indicted today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with smuggling cocaine into the United States at Boston’s Logan International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on July 6, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: The Hōlua backcountry area of Haleakalā National Park will close from the evening of July 16 through late afternoon on July 17 so park biologists can control non-native Argentine ants.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Witnesses: Michael J. Courts, Director International Affairs and Trade, U.S. Government Accountability Office. Lydia Muniz, Director, Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO), U.S. Department of State. Gregory B. Starr, Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS), U.S. Department of State. Donald S. Hays, Senior...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement following a report by Reuters that the U.S. Trafficking in Persons report will upgrade Malaysia to Tier 2 from Tier 3...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger and Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations St. Paul Division William Lowder today announced the conviction of ZDENKO JAKIŠA, 47, for obtaining a Permanent Resident Card (I-551), commonly referred to as a “Green Card," by materially false claims and statements. JAKIŠA entered his plea today before Judge Susan Richard Nelson in United States District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, ALASKA - This notice is to inform campers of recent bear activity on the north side of northern Muir Inlet in the East Arm of Glacier Bay.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced six projects that will receive up to $18 million in funding to reduce the modeled price of algae-based biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. This funding supports the development of a bioeconomy that can help create green jobs, spur innovation, improve the environment, and achieve national energy security.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: The sky is the limit at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). Join park rangers and astronomers from the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) on Saturday, July 25 at Platte River Point. Two events offer visitors the opportunity to view the sky. The first event, from 4:00-6:00...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: "Working as a federal employee, it’s really about service and giving back to those communities. So out of respect, out of love for our people, I’m able to use my position to help this office hopefully improve people’s lives." -- Chris Deschene.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A high-ranking member of a white supremacist gang was indicted this week for possessing multiple firearms while a felon.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Every member of the House Communications and Technology Subcommittee today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding the ability for consumers to take their phone number with them if they choose to switch carriers. A recent white paper by the North American...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a legislative hearing examining H.R. 702, a bill introduced by full committee Chairman Emeritus Joe Barton (R-TX) that would eliminate the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In advance of this week’s House vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) released the following statement underscoring his commitment, and that of the committee’s Republican members, to ensuring a fiscally responsible approach to finding better, faster, and safer treatments and cures...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations for peanut producers and industry representatives to serve on the Peanut Standards Board.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding protections for consumers following data breaches. As more and more Americans are affected by...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas City area business owner indicted in 2014 on federal bank fraud charges has been indicted again on charges of committing financial crimes while awaiting trail, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
