News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KENNETH JOHNSON, SR., age 52, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, pled nolo contendere (no contest) on March 16, 2015, to conspiring to pay kickbacks in a federal debris removal contract and guilty to two counts of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Jones, 30, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 110 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing marijuana and money laundering.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - The Federal Highway Administration, the state of Georgia and local government organizations are partnering with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to sponsor a one-hour Safety Stand-Down at construction sites in Georgia in conjunction with National Highway Work Zone Awareness Week from March 23-27.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today took a critical step in its efforts to advance a single, federal standard on data security and breach notification. Members of the subcommittee reviewed a bipartisan draft of “The Data Security Breach Notification Act, " authored by Energy and Commerce Committee Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The five regional studies are a new group of NOAA nationwide reports showing that between 1996 and 2010, 64,967 square miles in coastal regions - an area the size of Florida - experienced changes in land cover, including a decline in wetlands and forest cover, with development a major contributing factor. Over the past five years, NOAA scientists analyzed land cover data, which records the physical land type, rather than how land is used.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A defendant who admitted causing false income tax returns to be filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was sentenced today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) joined U.S. Senator John Thune (R-S.D.), a senior member of the Committee, on the Senate floor to outline the need for a strong, bipartisan Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) renewal bill that will empower America to negotiate and enact high standard trade agreements to help grow the economy and create jobs.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz requesting additional information regarding the department’s management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The letter follows the committee’s initial May 12, 2014, request for information on the SPR.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas -An east Texas man and woman have been charged with federal income tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz requesting additional information regarding the department’s management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The letter follows the committee’s initial May 12, 2014, request for information on the SPR.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz requesting additional information regarding the department’s management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). The letter follows the committee’s initial May 12, 2014, request for information on the SPR.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent a letter to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as part of ongoing bipartisan oversight of the federal mental health system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 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 that six individuals have been sentenced this week to a combined total of over 50 years in prison for drug-trafficking...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement in celebration of National Agriculture Day.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) today sent a letter to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) as part of ongoing bipartisan oversight of the federal mental health system.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is now accepting applications for the 2015 summer Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) program.Eight to twelve YCC enrollees will be recruited.These positions will be located at Spring Canyon, Fort Spokane, Hunters, Gifford, and Kettle Falls.Please indicate on your application...
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement a committee hearing on the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2016 foreign assistance budget request...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The ex-wife of a former Chinese official was arrested today in Newcastle, Washington, on charges that she and her former husband fraudulently obtained visas to enter the United States through the immigrant investor program and laundered money to purchase property in Washington state.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Great American Cleanup at Adena Recreational Trail and Hopewell Mound Group.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Ten individuals were sentenced today on drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
