News from March 2015
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the attack on U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Mark Lippert...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio Steven M. Dettelbach will lead a delegation of 25 U.S. Attorneys from across the country to Selma, Ala., this weekend to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the "Bloody Sunday" march and discuss the state of civil rights in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Alan David Tikal, 46, formerly of Brentwood, Calif., was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 24 years in prison for his convictions on eleven counts of mail fraud and one count of mail fraud relating to a foreclosure rescue scam, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Tikal was convicted following a bench trial before Judge Nunley on Sept. 15, 2014.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Since 2013, 294 workers have been killed by falls: a deadly fact that one roofing contractor appears willing to ignore as it was found putting the safety of its employees at risk by U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health inspectors once again.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On Feb. 19, 2015, John Vivian Sims, age 36, of Marshalltown, Iowa, was sentenced to 210 months in prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release, by United States District Court Senior Judge Robert W. Pratt for transportation of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: On a perfectly snowy day in Washington, DC, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., hosted a hearing on the economic and strategic opportunities in the Arctic as the United States prepares to assume the leadership of the international Arctic Council.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Oregon Caves Open for Spring Break.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is pleased to announce that Al Nash has joined BLM Montana/Dakotas (MT/DKs) as the new chief of communications. Nash, who begins his position at the state office in Billings on March 23, replaces Melodie Lloyd who retired at the end of 2014.“Al brings with him a strong public...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Case is One of Many Prosecuted by United States Attorney Wigginton.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - With bipartisan momentum building in the Senate behind legislation to require congressional review of a nuclear deal with Iran, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement today regarding the effort to seek support from a supermajority of 67 senators to override a presidential veto of the bill, which the White House threatened last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Russian man was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for laundering profits from a scheme in which computer hackers essentially took people’s computers “hostage" electronically until a ransom was paid.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: We wrapped up 2014 with an outstanding dialogue between DOE Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz and the tribal leaders of our DOE-sponsored energy working groups. Also at the end of the year, the new Under Secretary for Science and Energy, Dr. Franklin Orr, was sworn in to oversee several offices within DOE, including the DOE Office of Indian Energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Jorge Gonzalez-Gonzalez, aka Jorge Luis Diego, 29, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Feb. 26, 2015, for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, methamphetamine, heroin and marijuana. Gonzalez-Gonzalez was arrested in...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Education and the Workforce Committee, Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate labor committee, and Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), chairman of the Senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee, today called on National Labor Relations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Scott Ray Moon, age 48, of Bartow, Florida, with failing to register as a sex offender in Ohio, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jerome Eckstein, 39, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today to a money laundering charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office that provides for up to 20 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Gwendolyn Murray, 33, from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has been charged with twelve counts of filing false claims for tax refunds, seven counts of theft of government property, and two counts of aggravated identity theft. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on March 3, 2015, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: Sent Obscene Images to 10 and 13-year-old children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - After a seven-day trial, a federal jury found Moo Hoon “Steve" Kim, 54, resident of Cypress, Calif., guilty today of mail fraud, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. The trial was held before United States District Judge William B. Shubb.
