News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Qaaim Clark, 34, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was convicted of selling heroin near a local university campus, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of FirstNet’s efforts to create an interoperable nationwide public safety network. FirstNet was established in 2012 as an independent authority within the National...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Neil Kornze announced today that Ron Dunton has been selected as the BLM’s new Assistant Director, Fire and Aviation. Dunton has been acting in the position since June 2014.“Ron is one of the BLM’s most seasoned and highly respected fire professionals," said Director...
By State Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the use of chemical weapons in Syria by the Assad regime. The hearing is entitled “Assad’s Abhorrent Chemical Weapons Attacks.".
By EPA Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, authored by Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida B United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that the United States has settled allegations that a Jacksonville-based home health company knowingly billed the government for millions of dollars of medically unnecessary services by submitting false claims to Medicare. The allegations resolved include liability under the False Claims Act (FCA).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Park Ranger Works At Arch Rock Entrance Station on Highway 140.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building off last week’s hearing, the Energy and Power and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade subcommittees today held a joint hearing to examine the EPA’s proposed revisions to the existing ozone standard and potential impacts on jobs and manufacturing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $13,613.66 in Restitution to VAMC.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Wesley Burnett, age 54, of Hermosa Beach, California, today to 42 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud conspiracy in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain more than $2.8 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Clean Water Act Violations. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former wastewater treatment plant operator for the city of Granby, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury today for submitting false reports in violation of...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 16, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on the Obama Administration’s proposed Arctic Rule and its potential impacts on offshore energy development to native Alaskans, the State of Alaska, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, and to our nation’s goal of energy security.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted three years since President Obama announced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy directive, which offers a 2-year deportation reprieve and potential...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: A Hudson woman was sentenced to two years in prison for making false statements related to the purchase of three firearms, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Multiple individuals were arrested today pursuant to a 163-count federal indictment charging 41 people with facilitating an extensive, multi-state heroin trafficking operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, West Virginia State Police Colonel Jay Smithers, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Scott Smith, announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Resource Advisory Council (RAC)/Recreation Resource Advisory Council (RecRAC) will host a meeting and conference call Tuesday, June 23, 2015, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Agenda topics include: the introduction of new members, an overview of BLM-Utah issues and planning...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Cedar Rapids, Iowa - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Iowa will join members of the FBI coordinated Cedar Rapids Safe Streets Task Force in holding a joint press conference on June 18, 2015, where they will announce federal gun-related criminal charges against ten individuals. The purpose of the joint law enforcement action is to reduce incidences of gun violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Brent Dawson of Walla Walla, Washington recently plead guilty to illegally landing his airplane on Smooth Ridge during the fall of 2013 and 2014. Smooth Ridge is located in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Demetrius Anthony Gomez, 28, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today to time served-eight months in prison, including 90 days tribal jail time-for theft from a tribal organization, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Gomez to pay $1,984.00 in restitution, and to serve three years of supervised release. Gomez pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Judy Noll, 52, of Mertztown, PA, was charged today by Information with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Noll, President of Karen Construction Company, Inc. (Karen Construction) engaged in a scheme to defraud the United States...
