News published on Federal Newswire in March 2015

News from March 2015


DeLauro opening statement at NLRB budget hearing

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), senior member of the Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee made the below following statement at today’s hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget request. It can also be viewed here.


News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Fresh Produce Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).The Dallas, Texas, company has met its obligations and is now free to operate in the produce industry. Julio C. Nolasco...


Former Iberia Parish Sheriff’s deputy pleads guilty to violating man’s civil rights

News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a former Iberia Parish Sheriff’s deputy pleaded guilty to striking a handcuffed man.


News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it is seeking reviewers to evaluate grant applications for the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) and the Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program (FSMIP).


Shuster & LoBiondo Statements from Hearing on Air Traffic Control Reform

News Release: Shuster and LoBiondo Opening Statements. Hearing on “Options for FAA Air Traffic Control Reform". March 24, 2015. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Over the past two years, we’ve held numerous meetings, listening sessions, roundtables, and...


Former Head Teller At Lynrocten Credit Union Sentenced

News Release: Teresa Wieringo Humphries Previously Admitted To Embezzlement Scheme.


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Luis Alcalar Vasquez, a/k/a Noberto DeRivas, a/k/a Abraham Rivas-Rios, 43, of Texas and Mexico, who was convicted of possession of 15 or more unauthorized access devices, was sentenced to 72 months in prison and ordered to pay $77,577.90 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.


Bosarge Sentenced to Negligent Operation of a Vessel

News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Gerold Holt Bosarge was sentenced today in United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to a violation of Title 46, United States Code, Section 2302(b), Negligent Operations and Interfering with Safe Operations, a class A misdemeanor. Bosarge received one year of probation.


Bipartisan Committee Leaders Post SGR Package to be Considered this Week

News Release: WASHINGTON - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees today released the legislative package to permanently replace Medicare’s Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR). The agreement builds upon H.R. 1470, the SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment Modernization...


Henrico Woman Pleads Guilty to Health Care Fraud

News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Kateresea L. Ford, 42, of Glen Allen, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to one count of Health Care Fraud.


Yosemite National Park Kicks-off 125th Anniversary Celebration

News Release: Ranger Gabriel Lavan-Ying named Honorary Chairman of anniversary with over 300 students in attendance at ceremony at Yosemite Falls.


New York City Transit Authority retaliates against employee for participating in safety inspection and filing complaint, OSHA finds

News Release: March 24, 2015BOS 2015-060. NEW YORK - It began as a routine safety inspection in August 2012 at the New York City Transit Authority's Linden Shop maintenance facility in Brooklyn. It ended with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration finding that the transit authority...


News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.


News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has closed its review of the Hawaii Judiciary’s Language Access Program following the department’s successful provision of technical assistance to the Hawaii Judiciary. The department’s Federal Coordination and Compliance Section (FCS) of the...


News Release: LISA WILSON-FOLEY, 55, of Simsbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven for violating federal campaign finance laws. Judge Arterton ordered WILSON-FOLEY to serve five months of imprisonment, followed by one year of probation, the first five months of which WILSON-FOLEY...


News Release: WASHINGTON - All 16 members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) sent a letter Monday to President Barack Obama and 10 agencies across the executive branch. The letter urges the president and his agency heads to expeditiously nominate permanent inspectors general,...


ENGEL REINTRODUCES CARIBBEAN EMBASSIES BILL

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former Chairman of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee, today reintroduced legislation to expand American diplomatic representation across the Caribbean. The United States-Caribbean Partnership...


News Release: Claudia Rawes Admits To Stealing From Centra Health Credit Union.


Naples Man Pleads Guilty To Three Armed Bank Robberies

News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that John Robert Haldemann (31, Naples) today pleaded guilty to three counts of armed bank robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in federal prison for each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.


BLM announces new appointments to Front Range Resource Advisory Council to help advise agency on balanced management of nation's public lands

News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management announced new appointments or reappointments of members to Colorado’s citizen-based Front Range Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the Bureau of Land Management on public land issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds.