News from June 2015
By USDA Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on two produce businesses for failure to pay reparation awards issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Richland - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that the last of 12 admitted criminal conspirators in the CH2M Hill Hanford Group Inc. (CHG) Time Card Fraud Conspiracy was sentenced for her role in nearly a decade of systemic fraud that took millions...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today published a Guide to Restroom Access for Transgender Workers*. The publication provides guidance to employers on best practices regarding restroom access for transgender workers. The guide was developed at the request of the National...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Effective June 1, 2015, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) prohibits the use of fireworks and exploding targets on all BLM-managed public lands throughout Oregon and Washington. The ban will be in effect from June 1 to October 15.This year's low snowpack combined with warmer than normal weather patterns...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Alicia Radel, 31, of Clarksburg, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for selling heroin near a local playground, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A former owner and operator of Selectcare Health, Inc., a provider of outpatient physical and respiratory therapy located in Park Ridge and Skokie, was sentenced to federal prison for engaging in a $2.5 million health care fraud scheme. Ankur Roy, 38, of Miami Beach, Florida, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Five men from Northeast Ohio were convicted of multiple crimes for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine and use firearms to rob what they believed to be a drug stash house.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration's comprehensive Climate Action Plan to create American jobs, develop domestic clean energy resources, and cut carbon pollution, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today held a competitive auction for renewable energy on public lands in the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Front Range Resource Advisory Council will meet June 11 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the BLM Royal Gorge Field Office, 3028 E. Main Street, Cañon City, CO 81212.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced that on Friday, May 29, United States District Court Judge, Ralph R. Beistline, sentenced an Anchorage woman, Stacy Laulu, age 33, to two years imprisonment on her convictions for two felony violations of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA"). The case represented the first felony HIPAA prosecution in Alaska, and one of the few in the country.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management and Dinosaur National Monument are seeking public comments on an environmental assessment of the proposed 1.3-mile Bull Canyon Rim Trail in northwestern Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Defendants Allegedly Used Stolen Personal Information to Obtain IRS Refunds They Used to Purchase More Than $1 Million in Used Cars They Sent to Nigeria.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Husband Sandy Jenkins Also Pleaded Guilty and is Awaiting Sentencing.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - This week, Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee introduced a series of bills to strengthen the integrity of the unemployment insurance (UI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 1, 2015 - This evening, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1335, the “Strengthening Fishing Communities and Increasing Flexibility in Fisheries Management Act," legislation reauthorizing the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (MSA), the primary law governing fisheries resource management in offshore federal waters. The legislation passed by a bipartisan vote of 225-152.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the House prepares to vote on trade promotion authority (TPA) legislation, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) today sent Republicans in the House a “Dear Colleague" letter urging them to unite behind it. In the letter, he cites the conservative principles underlying free trade, TPA’s benefits to the U.S. economy and national security, and the unprecedented accountability included in the bill. The full text of the letter is below.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement marking the start of the 2015 Atlantic hurricane season...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal indictment has been unsealed charging PAUL HAROLD DOUGHTY and FRED DON ANDERSON with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, false statements to banks, and misapplication of bank funds in connection with First State Bank of Altus (“FSB") and various loan schemes...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Nicodemus Darnell Jefferson (40, Jacksonville) to 16 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender after traveling to Florida from Maryland. He was also ordered to serve a five-year term of supervised release following his incarceration. Jefferson pleaded guilty on March 27, 2015.
