News published on Federal Newswire in July 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Defendant Sought to Open “Ice Nightclub" near Seattle Center to Launder Drug Proceeds.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Secretly Took Cell Phone Videos of Victims in Dressing Rooms, Restrooms.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: BOSTON - Charges were unsealed today in federal court against a former Department of Defense (DOD) contractor for the U.S. Army in Kuwait for making a false statement on his security clearance form and for damaging Army computers.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is preparing the Long-term Recapture and Recirculation of Restoration Flows Environmental Impact Statement for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program. Reclamation has published a Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS to identify a set of alternatives for...

By USDA Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist is providing much needed guidance to sorghum farmers in the Texas High Plains who are trying to save water by using less-than-optimal amounts of it.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Patricia Merz, 58, of Niskayuna, New York, and her brother, Christopher McGuigan, 53, of Rutland, have been sentenced in United States District Court in Burlington following their convictions on federal fraud and conspiracy...

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “the Federal Radionavigation Plan, H.R. 1684, the Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2015, and H.R. ----, the National Icebreaker Fund Act of 2015". July 28, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: A Monroe County resident was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, an explosive device.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Since quantum theory has been known to borrow from the arts-Murray Gell-Mann famously named "quarks" after a line from James Joyce-it's only fitting that quantum physics, in return, has been inspiring artists and composers. Poetry, paintings, art installations, music and, yes, dance, have been inspired by the new physics and its weird, counterintuitive principles.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on July 27, 2015, a Michigan man was convicted by a jury of making numerous false statements, identity theft, and engaging in a scheme to operate fake charitable organizations.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), along with all Finance Committee Republicans, sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt asking how the agency guarantees information used to enroll in the Obamacare...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: HOUSTON - DEA Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am - 2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, collection locations will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Danielle Wallace, age 36, of Columbus, Georgia, was sentenced July 28, 2015 to 65 months imprisonment for wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and filing false income tax returns before the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief U.S. District Court Judge, in Columbus, Georgia. She was also ordered to pay $100,186 in restitution.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Miguel Moran Diaz, 45, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Joan A. Lenard to the statutory maximum term of 120 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, following his guilty plea for being a felon in possession of a firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CRYSTAL DEANN AIRINGTON, age 40, of Durant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to THEFT BY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES OF GAMING ESTABLISHMENT ON INDIAN LANDS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1168(b) and 2, punishable by not more than 20 years imprisonment, up to a $1,000,000.00 fine or both.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: Dozens of Victims in Texas and Thousands in the U.S. and Canada.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: FARGO - Acting United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced today that on July 17, 2015, Daniel Vivas Ceron, 34, of Colombia, was taken into custody in Panama City, Panama in connection with an indictment from the District of North Dakota charging him with: (1) Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: OAK CREEK, Wis. - A 30-year-old temporary employee required extensive surgery after suffering burns and lacerations of tendons and ligaments in her right hand after she used a cutting and sealing machine at a frozen bread manufacturer that supplies products to Costco Wholesale Corp., IGA, Piggly Wiggly and others.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: SEATTLE - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015

News Release: The staff of Rocky Mountain National Park invites you to celebrate World Ranger Day with them as they recognize world conservation areas, and the professional staff - the rangers - that form the Thin Green Line around these most valuable resources. The free program will be held on Friday, July 31 at...