News from March 2015
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has scheduled a meeting of the Whistleblower Protection Advisory Committee for April 20-21, 2015, in Washington, D.C.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Grand Teton National Park road crews cut through the snow cover on the Teton Park Road between the Taggart Lake parking area and Signal Mountain Lodge-a distance of 15 miles-and completed this portion of the annual spring plowing operations on Friday, March 27. The Teton Park Road has melted down to...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee member and Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) on Monday will bring the 21st Century Cures initiative to the Inland Northwest with a roundtable discussion at the Washington State University Spokane Campus. Patient advocates, innovators, ...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will hold five hearings in April, including oversight hearings on the Bureau of Land Management’s final hydraulic fracturing rule, the administration's Quadrennial Energy Review, the Energy Information Administration’s 2015 energy outlook, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, as well as a legislative hearing on measures being considered for inclusion in the energy efficiency title of a broader energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Altered Accounting Entries, Stole Cash over Multiple Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A former Tinley Park resident was charged by information today with concealing his ownership of seven luxury cars during his 2012 bankruptcy proceeding. The charges allege that JOSEPH W. CAMPBELL, 49, concealed cars having a total value of approximately $294,000, including a Lamborghini worth...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO ― An owner and operator of a rooftop entertainment venue overlooking Wrigley Field was indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly scheming to withhold approximately $600,000 due and owing collectively to the Chicago Cubs, the State of Illinois, Cook County, and the City of Chicago, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 27, 2015
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that a project to repave 4.3 miles of Newfound Gap Road will begin on April 13. This work is part of a multi-phased rehabilitation project started in 2007. The section to be resurfaced extends from Sugarlands Visitor Center south to Chimney’s Picnic Area where the last phase ended.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Brian Jaszczak, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy, to a misdemeanor charge of obstruction of the mails. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison, a fine of $5,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Tajuana L. Sullivan, 27, of Marion, Illinois, was sentenced to a total of thirty-eight months in prison for her role in a conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by submitting numerous false federal tax returns. Her sentence included a two year prison sentence for aggravated identity theft...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Doncouri Wells and Jason Delbosque were sentenced today to a combined total of 55 years in federal prison for unrelated sexual crimes involving minors. Wells, aka “D", age 38, of Fayetteville...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: DAYTON - Metin Atilan, 55, formerly of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, assault of a federal officer and failure to appear on pretrial release. Atilan, a former Department of Defense contractor, was extradited from Iraq to the United States in July. He was the first person extradited from Iraq to the United States pursuant to the U.S.-Iraq extradition treaty of 1936.
By State Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a committee hearing on the Administration’s strategy to confront ISIS...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On March 27, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to New Orleans to meet with the Transportation Security Officers and Jefferson Parish deputies involved in the attack last week at the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON — Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad Al-Mashnouq to discuss a variety of homeland security related priorities, and reiterate the commitment of the United States to work collaboratively with its international partners to share information and combat common threats.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - March 26, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the USDA awarded $9 million in grants to develop childhood obesity intervention programs through colleges and universities in 12 states and Puerto Rico. The grants are funded through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI), the flagship competitive grant program authorized under the 2014 Farm Bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: One Man Arrested While Attempting to Travel Abroad; Both Chicago Area Men Spoke of Using Army Uniforms, Military Knowledge and Access to Attack Illinois Military Installation Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Zachary T. Fardon of the Northern District of Illinois ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: An executive of Japan-based Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd. (K-Line) pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to 18 months in a U.S. prison for his involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices, allocate customers and rig bids of international ocean shipping services for roll-on, roll-off cargo, such as cars and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: Defendant Used Violent Assaults and Physical Restraints to Compel Young Women to Engage in Prostitution for the Defendant’s Profit Senior U.S. District Judge John G. Heyburn II of the Western District of Kentucky sentenced Cincinnati resident, Christopher Hisle, 45, to serve 180 months in prison and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2015
News Release: John A. Brommel, 53, a resident of Austin, Texas, and the owner of a taxidermy business, pleaded guilty today to violating the Lacey Act’s false labeling provision by knowingly selling horns from a black rhinoceros to non-Texas residents and falsifying the bill of sale to conceal the fact that the actual purchasers were not residents of Texas.
