News from March 2015
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Anchorage - The Bureau of Land Management is announcing seven new oil and gas leases within the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that a federal jury unanimously convicted KENDRICK D. ALEXANDER, age 41, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, today following a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles based on an Indictment charging him with possession with...
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- This week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) and Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA), senior members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee sent a...
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to President Barack Obama today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said any effort by the administration to circumvent Congress and go straight to the United Nations Security Council to implement a nuclear agreement with Iran would be “a direct affront to the American people."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today commented on the Federal Communications Commission’s release of its Depression-era rules to regulate the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announces that today, Michael Fabini, 35, of Fort Wayne was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment along with a term of 5 years of supervised release, and forfeiture was ordered following his plea of guilty to the...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: “We are disappointed with the draft of the Data Security and Breach Notification Act released by Reps. Burgess, Blackburn, and Welch. Data breaches can create serious harm to consumers and businesses alike, and this bill does not provide solutions. We have numerous concerns about the weakening of consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Jerry D. Roof, 31 of East Alton, Illinois, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge David R. Herndon to 30 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of TOMMY MICHAEL SPACK, 32, to eight years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm after having been previously convicted of multiple felonies in both Ramsey and Washington Counties. SPACK was indicted on Feb. 3, 2014. The defendant pleaded guilty on May 8, 2014, and was sentenced today before Judge Ann D. Montgomery in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 19, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R. 906, a Bill to Modify the Efficiency Standards for Grid-Enabled Water Heaters."
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., today urged their colleagues to support bipartisan legislation that would greatly improve opportunities for hunters, anglers, and outdoors enthusiasts on federal lands. The Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2015 (S. 556 ) was the subject of a hearing Thursday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 19, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R. 906, a Bill to Modify the Efficiency Standards for Grid-Enabled Water Heaters."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today announced draft legislation to tackle the nation’s growing data security challenges. The “Data Security and Breach Notification Act" is a comprehensive plan to help safeguard sensitive consumer information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: A former employee of the University of Kentucky’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for downloading child pornography images onto his work-issued computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Thursday on the overnight shooting of two officers in Ferguson, Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Harry I. Martin, Jr., the owner, president, and chief executive officer of a Virginia-based information technology company, Intelligent Decisions, Inc., was sentenced today to six months home confinement and a $250,000 fine on a federal charge stemming from illegal gratuities that he and his company provided to a former contracting official with the U.S. Department of the Army in return for preferential treatment and government contracts.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Glimpses of the Past:March 19, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Since the day the IRS opened its doors, scam artists have been hatching up slick new ways of stealing taxpayer dollars from the Treasury. What’s new is, they’re now stealing Americans’ identities and personally threatening them on an industrial scale, while directly robbing them of their hard-earned...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that George Stoney, age 40, Tory Dobbin, age 41, and Nathaniel Mosley, age 43, all from Harrisburg, were sentenced after pleading guilty to armed robbery and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- Federal authorities on Wednesday arrested the former president of the federal employees union at Birmingham's Veterans Affairs Hospital on charges she embezzled more than $132,000 from the local chapter.
