News from May 2015
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in reaction to the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General investigation into the Secret Service incident at the White House Complex on March 4, 2015. The report is the first in a series that the Inspector General will release regarding recent incidents involving the Secret Service.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Deputy Marshals Were Attempting to Arrest Defendant on a Warrant.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Travis John Attanasio, 53, of Chubbuck, Idaho, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Boise for wire fraud and theft of government funds, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By US DOT Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “Coast Guard Major Acquisitions". May 14, 2015. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). As this Subcommittee has continually highlighted, the Coast Guard currently operates tens, and in some cases, hundreds...
By State Newswire | May 14, 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 full Committee hearing on U.S. economic interests in Asia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three subsidiaries of North Carolina-based Duke Energy Corporation, the largest utility in the United States, pleaded guilty today to nine criminal violations of the Clean Water Act at several of its North Carolina facilities and agreed to pay a $68 million criminal fine and spend $34 million...
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC), made these remarks regarding the recently completed report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General on the circumstances of two Secret Service employees driving through an ongoing bomb investigation at the White House...
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites you to take part in summer programming occurring at Chickamauga Battlefield and Lookout Mountain Battlefield. Programs for the summer begin May 23 and end mid-August. The Chickamauga Battlefield Visitor Center will be open...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining how Congress can address the challenges Medicare patients with chronic conditions face...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EFK OF CONNECTICUT, INC., d/b/a NELSON AMBULANCE SERVICE, located in North Haven, and SKMP ENTERPRISES, INC., d/b/a ACCESS AMBULANCE SERVICE, located in Bridgeport, have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the government in which they will pay $595,000 to resolve allegations that they improperly billed the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed his bipartisan Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. The bill, which will now be sent to the president to be ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: The eight species highlighted, all listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, are the Gulf of Maine population of Atlantic salmon, Central California Coast coho salmon, Cook Inlet beluga whales, Hawaiian monk seals, Pacific leatherback sea turtles, Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon, Southern Resident killer whales in Puget Sound, and California Coast white abalone.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to attend a series of special programs conducted Memorial Day weekend, May 23-24.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man was indicted today on drug distribution and firearms charges in U.S. District Court in Boston.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine U.S. economic engagement in Asia. The hearing is entitled “Advancing U.S. Economic Interests in Asia.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Butler county man pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of stealing more than $1.2 million from Presbyterian Manors of Mid-America, a Wichita-based company that owns assisted living centers in Kansas and Missouri, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Luis Pecina, 34, of Phoenix, AZ, was sentenced today for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested this morning and is facing federal gun charges for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The defendant, LABAR SPANN, was arrested following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Chicago Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Michael Velez, 36, of St. Croix, pleaded guilty today in District Court on St. Croix to one count of Manufacture of Marijuana, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives on the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 (HR 1191)...
