News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― A Skokie man was indicted last week for international parental kidnapping of his three children and traveling with them to Turkey without their mother’s consent, permission or knowledge. MURTAZA ALI, 44, of Skokie, was charged with one count of international parental kidnapping by a federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Monday, June 1, 2015. The Detroit One violence reduction partnership today announced an initiative to reduce gun violence in Detroit. The initiative includes enforcement and public awareness about the serious federal penalties that...
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 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 at which family members of four Americans either detained or missing in Iran will testify. The hearing is entitled “Americans Detained in Iran.".
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 1, 2015 - For more than six years the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has been without a permanent Inspector General which has“reduced the Department’s efficiency and deprived taxpayers from fully realizing the benefits of a strong inspector general," according to key lawmakers in the House.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced the final defendants tied to a large-scale drug trafficking organization that operated in Northwest Arkansas were sentenced today. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Ajo, Az -Starting on Oct. 1, 2015, Organ Pipe Cactus NM will increase entrance fees for.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 35-year-old Plano, Texas man has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison in relation to an incident involving an explosive device in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of the State of Georgia has been sentenced in federal court to probation for a term of five years and restitution ordered in the amount of $139,357.27 on his conviction of wire fraud conspiracy, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Chinese Immigrant to Lose U.S. Citizenship as a Result of His Illegal Behavior.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man today admitted sexually abusing two girls and recording the conduct on his cellphone, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office is seeking public input to help guide its Resource Management Plan Revision for 668,000 acres of BLM lands along Colorado’s Front Range. The revision will combine the 1996 Royal Gorge Resource Management Plan and the 1986 Northeast Resource Management Plan, to create the new Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan. The revision will also include a Master Leasing Plan for South Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that the United States has settled allegations that a Jacksonville-based compounding pharmacy knowingly billed the government for compounding pain prescriptions that came from an improper referral source. The allegations resolved included liability under the False Claims Act (FCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Ajellon Dedeaux, 27, of Rancho, California, and Andrew Colwell, 24, of Boise, Idaho, are the latest members of a large scale oxycodone and heroin distribution ring to be sentenced to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of a Fashion District import-export business pleaded guilty late Friday afternoon to federal charges stemming from an investigation into “Black Market Peso Exchange" schemes used by international drug cartels to launder and send narcotics proceeds out of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: To accommodate a dust abatement application, a brief travel closure will be in place for about 48 hours, beginning 4 a.m. Tuesday, June 9, on the unpaved section of the Moose-Wilson Road in Grand Teton National Park. The road will reopen by 8 a.m. Thursday, June 11.
By State Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded the House of Representatives unanimous passage of S. 802, Girls Count Act of 2015. The legislation works to support the rights of women and girls in developing countries. Specifically, it authorizes...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- The beautiful and diverse single-celled algaes known as diatoms are the subject of the next show in Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery, on display from June 5 to Aug. 16, 2015. Tropical Botanic Artists (TBA), a collaborative of botanical illustrators...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 880, the American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2015, legislation introduced by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) to make permanent the research and development tax credit. On passage, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the use of administrative actions in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 1, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Fredi (a/k/a Ademar Becerril, a/k/a Pitufo) was sentenced today to 196 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Homeland Security Investigations Acting Special Agent in Charge Tatum King, and Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce Balzano.
