News from June 2015
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 23, 2015
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on June 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jun 23, 2015
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on June 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Fed News Journal | Jun 23, 2015
The US Federal Reserve System published a four page notice on June 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (PDF) that would improve the process for testing the safety and reliability of new transit buses funded with federal dollars. The proposed rule would establish minimum ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: MISSOULA - Frederick Glen Johnson, 47, of Spokane Valley, Washington, pleaded guilty today in Missoula federal court to drug and prostitution-related racketeering charges. He faces a mandatory prison sentence of five to forty years, up to five million dollars in fines, and at least four years supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 25-year-old Dallas woman is the latest defendant to appear in federal court and plead guilty to a felony drug offense stemming from her role in the March 2014 heroin overdose death of a Dallas teenage girl, Rian Hannah Lashley, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Dinosaur, CO -The Moffat County Coroner's office today released the name of a 34-year old man from Denver who perished in a rafting accident on the Green River in Dinosaur National Monument on Saturday, June 20, 2015.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. June 24: Live Webinar on Tribal Renewable Energy Projects. Webinar Sponsor: DOE Office of Indian Energy and Western Area Power Administration. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "Regulatory Impacts for Renewable Energy Tribal Projects on Indian Lands" on Wednesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who is handling the case, stated that between October 2013 and Feb. 25, 2014, the defendant conspired with Troy Cooley and Markiel Hall to sell hydrocodone, a Schedule III controlled substance, in the City of Buffalo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) addressed the importance of international trade to the state of Utah and the benefits of the passage of Trade Promotion Authority. Watch full speech here.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man is expected to appear in court today on charges of fraud for allegedly soliciting $1.5 million from 16 investors based upon false and fraudulent financial records, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: POINT REYES STATION, CA - Point Reyes National Seashore, in partnership with the veteran-based organization Team Rubicon, is hosting firefighter training for 75 to 80 veterans from June 26 through June 29, 2015. Successful completion of the training will enable veterans to be deployed around the country...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today advanced her efforts to lift the current ban on most U.S. crude oil exports by releasing a report making the case that sanctions on Iranian oil should not be lifted without also lifting the current ban on U.S. crude oil exports. The report , Cross-Currents: Iranian Oil and the U.S. Export Ban, connects the dots between Obama Administration statements to support this argument.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: In the debate in Congress over the last several weeks, I’ve heard a lot of my colleagues come to the floors of the Senate and House and say they’re tired of the NAFTA playbook on trade. They’re concerned that the package that’s once again before the Senate is more of the same.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the impending expiration of the Export-Import bank...
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Africa Subcommittee, introduced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: A New York man was sentenced to 15 months in prison and fined $10,000 for making false statements relative to a loan and his operation of a winery near Sandusky, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Following a lightning storm that threw over 31,000 lightning strikes from June 19 - June 21, five wildfires are now burning in remote locations in Denali National Park and Preserve. None of the wildfires are threatening park structures or sensitive resources. Due to the remote locations, fire managers have opted to monitor these fires.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Heather Alfonso, 42, of Middlebury, waived her right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to receiving kickbacks in relation to a federal healthcare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, New Jersey, man today admitted selling to a Camden drug dealer and other criminals in the Camden area at least 200 firearms that he purchased with cash from other illicit firearms dealers, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
