News from July 2015
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today began the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s markup of the broad, bipartisan Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 with discussion on almost a third of the 94 amendments filed to the bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - - 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. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unused, unwanted, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI -James Cruz, 20, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to Using a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. As part of the plea, Cruz admitted that on Feb. 21, 2015 at the St. Croix Educational Complex, he and an accomplice...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Joel Junior Lantigua-Lora, 28, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment alleges that on or about June 24, 2015, Lantigua-Lora, an alien, and native and citizen of the Dominican Republic, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Aug. 23, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - PAULA KLUDING, 39, from Chandler, Oklahoma, the owner of Prairie View Hospice, Inc., an Oklahoma corporation located in Chandler, was sentenced by United States District Judge Robin Cauthron to serve three years in prison for committing Medicare fraud, announced Sanford C. Coats...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: An East St. Louis woman, convicted of Transfer of a Firearm to a Felon and Conspiracy to Obstruct Justice, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day in federal prison on July 27, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO - 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Miami Resident and ISIL Sympathizer Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Visitors are talking. There is a new interpretive program in town that is engaging visitors ina new way and allowing them to share their experiences with the ocean and oceanissues.The first program, titled Our Role in Ocean Stewardship: A FacilitatedDialogue, launched on Friday, June 19, 2015.The program...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva released the following statement on the growing calls for an investigation into how and why a suburban Minnesota dentist recently killed a Zimbabwean lion with a bow and arrow after luring it outside a national park.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs intends to issue a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) later this year that will help promote tribal energy sufficiency by providing funding for Tribes to make their buildings more energy efficient and deploy community-scale clean energy systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Nimesh Vijay Desai, age 33, of Columbus, Georgia was sentenced today by the Honorable Clay D. Land, Chief United States District Judge in Columbus, Georgia. Mr. Desai was sentenced to serve 130 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine and possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Former Chippewa Cree Tribal official Timothy Warren Rosette, 52, of Box Elder, pleaded guilty today to two counts of bribery and one count of theft of tribal funds, according to the United States Attorney’s Office. Rosette had been charged in three indictments handed down by a federal Grand Jury investigating corruption in Indian Country. Rosette appeared before U.S. District Judge Brian Morris in Great Falls to enter the guilty pleas.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released a Finding of No Significant Impact and an Environmental Assessment for the Los Carneros Water District’s Recycled Water Pipeline Project. The EA details Reclamation’s proposed grants of a total of $1.73 million to the Los Carneros Water District to improve water conservation efficiency and to increase water reliability.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Blain Arno Pannell, 44, of Taylorsville, Utah, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 30 months’ imprisonment and required to register as a sex offender. Pannell previously pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Ebonyi Blakely, 28, from St. Ann, Missouri, pled guilty to an indictment that charged her with conspiracy to obstruct or impair the Internal Revenue Service in the lawful assessment and collection of income taxes and distribution of tax refunds, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Sentencing is set for November 6, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- A National Park Service effort to better understand how coyotes survive in one of the nation's most intensely urbanized areas is providing new insights into their movements and behavior. Researchers captured two coyotes near downtown Los Angeles in May and outfitted them with GPS collars (see map).
By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Testifying before the Education and the Workforce Committee earlier today, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell declined to state whether her department would investigate the gruesome abortion practices by Planned Parenthood that have been raised in a series of recent videos.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Ronald Chisholm, 53, of Norfolk, was convicted today by a federal jury on charges of conspiracy, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with a scheme to defraud the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Gregory Wayne Gibson, age 63, of Cockeysville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to distribution of child pornography. For the past three to four years, Gibson was a volunteer youth group leader at a church in Baltimore County, working with children ages nine through eighteen. Gibson also assisted with childcare at his wife’s unlicensed home daycare, which included infants.
