News from July 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: NEWBURY PARK, Calif. -- Noted Native American cartographer Aaron Carapella will visit a local culture center and present his work onSaturday, July 18. The National Park Service will host two presentations, at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., at Satwiwa Native American Indian Culture Center in Newbury Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), announce that on July 1, 2015, United States District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga sentenced...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: The Interagency Grizzly Bear Study Team (IGBST) will extend their research trapping operations for grizzly bears within Grand Teton National Park through July 12, 2015. Scientific research and trapping operations at Grand Teton have been underway since May 6, as part of ongoing efforts required under the Endangered Species Act to collect data and monitor the population of grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE).
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 2, 2015 - Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement on the agreement reached for consideration of the bipartisan Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015 (H.R. 2647), introduced by Rep. Westerman (R-AR), by the full House of Representatives the week of July 5, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced July 1, 2015, to more than 7 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that Robert Codjoe, 54, of Piscataway, New Jersey, was sentenced today to one year of probation, six months of home confinement, and a $2,000 fine for committing passport fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE ISMAEL VENTURA was found guilty yesterday of murder in connection with a marijuana distribution conspiracy, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and murder-for-hire. The verdict came following a 13-day jury trial in Manhattan federal court before U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentence of TORY EVAN HUGHES, 45, to 71 months in federal prison for stealing more than $700,000 through a gold and coin investment scheme. HUGHES was indicted on August 6, 2014, and pleaded guilty on October 8, 2014. He was sentenced today before United States District Court Judge Richard Kyle.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement after President Obama signed into law legislation reauthorizing trade promotion authority (TPA) as well as a bill extending trade preferences programs and trade adjustment assistance. Chairman Ryan was the primary sponsor of the TPA bill in the House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Raymon Carter, age 24, of Baltimore, Maryland, with the arson of the CVS Pharmacy located at 2509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Baltimore, on April 27, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: City Lost More Than $6 Million in Longstanding Scheme in Which Commercial Trash Haulers Paid Bribes to Dump Trash Without Paying Disposal Fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: American Access Care Holdings, LLC, which operated a vascular access center in Miami, has agreed to pay $1.2 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by billing Medicare for medically unnecessary percutaneous transluminal angioplasties (PTAs) and thrombectomies and by billing...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: Employer Name and Location: New Homes Construction Inc. is a general contractor located at 739 Bordentown Road in Burlington, New Jersey. The investigation was conducted at Wildflowers at Medford, an active adult community at 12 Montclaire Road, Lot 19, in Medford, New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: In Austin today, Willie James Cleveland, age 34, plead guilty to bank robberies he committed earlier this year along the Interstate 35 corridor between Austin and San Antonio announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former executive of the Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) and a former public housing inspector were sentenced today for their roles in rigging the inspection process of federally funded housing units.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Waco, Texas, resident, Christopher Scott Gant, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $110,344.00 in restitution to TXU Energy following his guilty plea in February 2015 to an indictment charging one count of wire fraud. He must surrender to the Bureau of Prison on Aug. 18, 2015. John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, made today’s announcement.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a hearing for Friday, July 10 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R. 985, Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015."
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the passage this week of trade promotion authority (TPA) legislation, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) will be a guest this weekend on CBS’s Face the Nation. Ryan will sit for his first interview with new host John Dickerson to discuss the victory on TPA and other news of the week. Face the Nation airs Sunday mornings, and local listings for air time can be found here.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 2, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), leaders of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today announced growing support for the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy (DRIVE) Act, S.1647, a six-year surface transportation reauthorization bill. The legislation was unanimously voted out the EPW Committee on June 24.
