News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Rankin, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: A St. Louis man, convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison on March 13, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Herbert Garstang...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced witnesses for the subcommittee’s Tuesday, March 17, hearing, which will focus on legal and cost issues relating to EPA’s proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) rule for existing power plants under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, referred to by the agency as the “Clean Power Plan."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: A Mexican man pled guilty to Unlawful Re-Entry After Deportation and was sentenced to time served of 51 days on March 13, 2015, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Rodolfo Garcia-Carrera, 28, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to time served, which was 51 days, and is being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A business consultant who assisted public companies find financing was sentenced today in connection with a kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Octavio Torres-Rivas, aka Cesar Torres, age 46, a Mexican citizen residing in Springdale, Arkansas, was sentenced today on one count of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of March 16. Members will continue oversight over the EPA and FCC, and review two discussion drafts aimed at protecting jobs, innovation, and manufacturing.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced witnesses for the subcommittee’s Tuesday, March 17, hearing, which will focus on legal and cost issues relating to EPA’s proposed carbon dioxide (CO2) rule for existing power plants under section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act, referred to by the agency as the “Clean Power Plan."
By State Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Urbana, Ill. B Sentray D. Coney, 25, of the 700 block of South Lincoln Ave., Kankakee, Ill., has been sentenced to the maximum 10 years in federal prison for illegal possession of a firearm by a felon. At sentencing, yesterday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Harold A. Baker found that on May 19, 2014...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Park Managers will temporarily close several climbing routes on the west face and southwest shoulder of Devils Tower to protect nesting peregrine falcon and prairie falcon beginning March 15. Over one hundred and fifty climbing routes remain open. The temporary closure, established under the 1995 Climbing Management Plan, with authority from the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, is an annual occurrence at Devils Tower.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Nicole Murphy, a resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to three years probation. The first three months of the sentence will be served in home confinement, followed by nine months of in-home detention. The sentence also requires that the defendant serve...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man pleaded guilty today to illegally possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Travis Devon Woods, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston to being a felon in possession of a firearm. On Dec. 16, 2013, on the West Side of Charleston...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - March 13, 2015. Contact's Name: ERIC CAMPBELL (540) 868-0937. National Park Service Announces the Beginning of Ranger Conducted Programs and Change of Hours of Operation. Middletown, VA ----- Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park will resume ranger-conducted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Juan Dejesus Santiago, 33, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of drug conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, was sentenced to 30 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: CARTAGENA, Colombia - Thirteen individuals, who were involved in a drug trafficking organization (DTO) linked to the annual movement of multi-ton cocaine loads, were arrested March 10 in the Colombian cities of Cartagena, Baranquilla and Turbaco.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant Profited Financially by Referring Customers to Child Pornography Website.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., today led a bipartisan letter to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry encouraging the administration to renew a historic energy security agreement with Israel.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called for a bipartisan, responsible fix to restore the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) trust fund separate from raising taxes on hardworking American families.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) this afternoon released the following joint statement.
