News from March 2015
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: Yosemite National Park initiates one transportation project and concludes two others that will improve parking, road conditions, and traffic flow in the park. The projects will provide additional parking in Yosemite Valley, improve restrooms and reorganize the Tuolumne Grove parking area, and repair and maintain portions of the Tioga Road. The projects are slated to be completed by Memorial Day, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: MONROE La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a New Jersey man pleaded guilty for his role in importing and selling anabolic steroids.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2015 - On March 5, 2015, Energy and Mineral Resources (EMR) Subcommittee Chairman Doug Lamborn (CO-6) questioned Department of the Interior Secretary Sally Jewell about the Administration’s recently released draft five-year (2017-2022) leasing plan for the Outer Continental...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of the fifth anniversary of the President’s health law, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released a fact sheet outlining how the law has made healthcare coverage less affordable for some Americans as more families, workers, and job creators are getting hit with higher insurance premium costs.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore is accepting applications for lifeguards this summer at West Beach. Deadline to apply is March 27, 2015. To apply go to the USA JOBS website at www.usajobs.gov. Using the search options on the website put in the location of Porter, Indiana and the position of Recreation Assistant. Participants are paid $11.98 an hour for the 40-hour work week during the summer. Weekend work in the spring and early fall is also available.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Rapphel Johnson, 28, of Reno, Nevada, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Chief Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Johnson to pay a $5,000 fine, and serve one year of supervised release following the prison term.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2015
News Release: Fire On the Mountain: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Plans for Prescribed Fire. During the next three weeks, weather permitting, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park will be conducting a prescribed burn in the "Hoot Owl Hollow."This 105 acre burn unit, in mixed hardwood and conifer forest...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area will become an even more beautiful place on March 20 when the Artist-in-Residency program will debut its first artist this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Sunday regarding the arrest of Jeffrey Williams in the shooting of two law enforcement officers outside the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department on Thursday: “This arrest sends a clear message that acts of violence against our law enforcement ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2015
News Release: Re-enactors from throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada will once again celebrate peace as they gather for the 18th Annual Encampment scheduled Saturday and Sunday, July 25-26 on the English Camp parade ground.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2015
News Release: The plan identifies actions that will strengthen enforcement, create and expand partnerships with state and local governments, industry, and non-governmental organizations, and create a risk-based traceability program to track seafood from harvest to entry into U.S. commerce. The plan also highlights...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2015
News Release: (BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Eugenia A.P. Cowles, the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Stephanie Schump, of Milton, Vermont, was sentenced on March 13, 2015 by Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― Dmitry Firtash, 48, a Ukrainian businessman, was arrested Wednesday by Austrian authorities in Vienna on a provisional arrest request based on charges filed in the Northern District of Illinois, announced Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2015
News Release: NOAA Administrator Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D., has appointed six members to the Hydrographic Services Review Panel, a federal advisory committee that gives NOAA independent advice for improving a range of services and products that support navigation and coastal resilience.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court in Las Vegas to bar a Las Vegas man from preparing federal tax returns that contain or involve foreign earned income, and from promoting to others the exclusion of foreign earned income.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: The owner of two home health care companies pleaded guilty to Medicare fraud and tax fraud charges in connection with his role in a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare for $12.6 million in home health services that were not provided or were obtained through illegal kickbacks. Ten other individuals have been convicted at trial or pleaded guilty in this case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Waste Management Inc. (WMI) and Deffenbaugh Disposal Inc. (DDI) to divest small container commercial waste service routes, in the Topeka, Kansas, area and in two areas in Northwestern Arkansas – Van Buren/Fort Smith and Springdale – in order ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Two Phenix City, Alabama, women and a Columbus, Georgia, woman pleaded guilty for their roles in a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) conspiracy, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Michigan resident Lip Bor Ng, also known as Paul Wu, 52, pleaded guilty before Judge Mark A. Goldsmith to a one-count conspiracy information, which charged him with conspiring with others to knowingly submit false and misleading export information to the United States, to fraudulently and knowingly export ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Colin Boone, previously employed as an officer of the Des Moines, Iowa, Police Department, was convicted today on the charge of deprivation of rights under color of law for assaulting a civilian during the course of an arrest on Feb. 19, 2013, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta ...
