News from March 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration has established an interim policy to speed up airspace authorizations for certain commercial unmanned aircraft (UAS) operators who obtain Section 333 exemptions. The new policy helps bridge the gap between the past process, which evaluated every UAS operation individually, and future operations after we publish a final version of the proposed small UAS rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment charging Linda M. Taylor, 35, and Donnie N. Whitfield, 24, both of Panama City, with possessing firearms as convicted felons. The indictment was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: A Youngstown man with a long history of violence was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for illegally possessing a firearm, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and ATF Special Agent in Charge Donald Soranno.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today reflecting on Obamacare’s fifth anniversary, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) detailed the law’s numerous failures - including its inability to address costs - and called on lawmakers to chart a path forward to repeal and replace the law with patient-centered reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Dunwoody Police Detective Robert Pasquale Bentivegna has pleaded guilty to disclosing sensitive law enforcement information in exchange for receiving kickbacks for him and his family.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Four people have been convicted for their roles in a sex trafficking of minors conspiracy in which young females were forced and/or coerced to engaged in commercial sex acts, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Melissa S. Edwards, 41, of Sioux City, Iowa, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Making False Statements to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The Honorable Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Edwards to 1 year and 1...
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 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 after the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 162, a resolution calling on the President to provide Ukraine with military assistance to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit in Boston today affirmed the sentence of 50-years in federal prison imposed on Donald J. Jones, III, on charges of interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual acts with a minor, aggravated sexual assault, enticement of a minor...
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on the floor of the House of Representatives in support of H.Res.53, a measure condemning Boko Haram and calling for free and fair elections in Nigeria...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has funded three rural telecommunications infrastructure projects that will improve broadband service in portions of rural Arkansas, Iowa and New Mexico. This announcement coincides with the news that the President Obama signed a new Presidential Memorandum to create the Broadband Opportunity Council, co-chaired by Secretary Vilsack and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: U.S. Postal Inspectors Request Anyone Who May Have Been Affected By The Scheme To Provide Information Through.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: “Five years ago, our nation moved away from an increasingly expensive health care system that allowed insurers to kick Americans off of their insurance plans when they got sick, to a system with vital protections and more affordable and accessible coverage for everyone. Today, health care costs are growing...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Jose Ivan Mejia-Chavez, 28, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced to 120 months in prison on March 20, 2015, on an eleven-count indictment charging him with Conspiracy to Distribute and Possess with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine, Illegal Re-Entry after Deportation, and Interstate Travel in Support of...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two McAllen men have received significant sentences for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute marijuana and conspiring to launder the drug proceeds, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Alberto Alaniz, 51, and Jose Ramon Romo, 30, pleaded guilty to the charges May 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Scranton, Pa. man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to charges relating to tobacco tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTOINE BURROUGHS and LEON WHITFIELD pled guilty to robbery charges in connection with the home invasion robbery and murder of Gerardo Antoniello on September 9, 2009. Antoniello was killed during the...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Tuesday, March 24th, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will hold the second in a series of congressional forums as part of the Middle Class Prosperity Project launched by the members last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Portage Hospital, LLC, in Hancock, Michigan, has agreed to pay the United States $4,446,392.43 to settle allegations that a hospital-owned home health care agency, Portage Health Home Care & Hospice, violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare for home health care services purportedly rendered by a staff physical therapist.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Michigan man who sold heroin in the Huntington area, was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Clarence Edward House II, also known as “Nitty," 44, previously pleaded guilty in December of 2014 to aiding and abetting the distribution...
