News from June 2015
By Interior Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: To expand its existing list of approved herbicide active ingredients (herbicides) to treat noxious weeds and other invasive species on Bureau of Land Management (BLM)-managed public lands, the BLM today notified the public of the availability of a draft Vegetation Treatments Programmatic Environmental...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Owner’s Son Convicted of Conspiracy and Arson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: “This latest report confirms that the cost of repealing the ACA would be devastating, especially to the 24 million Americans who would find themselves uninsured. The ACA is providing millions of families across the country with quality, affordable health insurance and the security that comes from being...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: FORT SMITH, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and 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 the Fort Smith area were sentenced this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JOEL WISHNE was sentenced to 30 months in prison involving his embezzlement of approximately $825,500 from SafeVision, LLC, during a three year period. In addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay $782,500 restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Dorchester man was sentenced today to 29 ½ years in prison in connection with the assault, robbery and kidnapping of a U.S. Postal letter carrier that took place just before Christmas, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAROL DAVID SOSA-PALMA, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was charged today in a one-count Indictment with illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: “Yesterday, Pope Francis made clear that we have a collective duty to fight climate change and protect our planet. Today, the Obama Administration has taken an important step forward in that battle. The proposed standards will allow us to have more efficient vehicles, significantly reducing greenhouse...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - A 32-year-old Canadian man who maintained a lucrative scheme that defrauded FedEx of over half-a-million dollars has pled guilty to mail fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: “This latest report confirms that the cost of repealing the ACA would be devastating, especially to the 24 million Americans who would find themselves uninsured. The ACA is providing millions of families across the country with quality, affordable health insurance and the security that comes from being...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Washington - Wednesday, Chairmen Johnson and McCaul sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) seeking to clarify conflicting guidance on cybersecurity best practices regarding the use of Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems and Wireless Intrusion Prevention Systems (WIDS/WIPS) to protect wireless networks and users from cyber-attacks.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Alan S. Lowenthal (D-Calif.) today sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) urging increased royalty rates for onshore oil and gas production. The letter, a response to...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: “This latest report confirms that the cost of repealing the ACA would be devastating, especially to the 24 million Americans who would find themselves uninsured. The ACA is providing millions of families across the country with quality, affordable health insurance and the security that comes from being...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Eleven Defendants Charged in Nationwide Conspiracy to Manufacture and Distribute Counterfeit 5-Hour ENERGY Drink.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A bench trial concluded late yesterday ultimately convicting Luisa Vargas, 53, a legal permanent resident residing in Houston of sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A jury has convicted a Pittsburg, Kan., man on federal firearms and drug charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 19, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Suncoast Brace & Limb, Inc. (“SCBL"), based in Bradenton, today pleaded guilty to health care fraud. The corporation faces a maximum fine of $500,000 and the payment of restitution at the time of sentencing. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES E. NEILSEN, 55, of Norwalk, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with defrauding individual investors out of more than $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: Six cases charged during three day sweep totaling approximately $7.8 million in false billings.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was charged today with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark Division announced.
