News from May 2015
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Professional and amateur riders are slated to take part in the Grand Junction Off-Road mountain bike event scheduled to begin May 29 in the Grand Valley.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RASHAD DANCY, 26, of Bridgeport, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) today released final environmental reviews for proposed land use plans that will help conserve greater sage-grouse habitat and support sustainable economic development on portions of public lands in 10 states across the West. The...
By DOL Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: AVENEL, N.J. - The life of a 46-year-old demolition worker, killed in a building collapse in November 2014 at a Staten Island auto dealership, could have been spared if his employer had not disregarded federal safety rules.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: On Monday, June 1, cultural practitioner Bolly Helekahi will launch the 2015 Hana No`eau cultural demonstration series, in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park. Helekahi will teach coconut weaving between 1pm and 3pm.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, when visiting the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program at the University of Alaska-Anchorage, Deputy Energy Secretary Elizabeth Sherwood announced that as part of the President’s Climate Action Plan, the Department of Energy has selected five Alaska Native villages to receive...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor announced today the conviction of Dr. Hector Castro, an internal medicine practitioner, on 39 counts of Criminal Sale of a Prescription for a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine with the intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: NEWARK N.J. - A Jackson, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a large-scale mortgage fraud scheme that used phony documents and straw buyers to acquire over $6 million in loans, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a third Monroe County man pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Scranton, before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to the charge of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today announced its next five upcoming hearings over the coming weeks on a variety of issues, including the fourth and final legislative hearing related to a broad energy bill; drought conditions throughout the western United States; the Nuclear Waste ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States District Judge John A. Steele has sentenced Adam Moffett (32, Ft. Myers) to 10 years in federal prison for distributing and possessing child pornography. The Court also ordered him to serve a life term of supervision as a sexual offender. Moffett pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Imposters Using Fake Passports Took College, Grad School Entrance Exams for Prospective Foreign Students.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Mohamed Hussein Said, 27, of Nairobi, Kenya, pled guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to three designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations al-Qa’ida, al-Qa’ida in Iraq/al-Nusrah Front (“AQI/al-Nusrah Front"), and al-Shabaab, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2339B. Said faces a maximum statutory sentence of fifteen years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced today that criminal charges of attempted distribution of controlled substances have been filed against Sharon Magrath of Randolph, Massachusetts.
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced today that it has issued payment to 18 counties in western Oregon eligible under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act extension. The amount paid to the Oregon & California (O&C) counties is $20,290,958.71. In February 2015, the BLM...
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today cheered the Department of Energy’s approval of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export license for Alaska’s massive North Slope natural gas resources.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Robert Lee Foster, 65, formerly of Falls Church, Virginia, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the attempted sex trafficking of a child as the result of an undercover investigation in which...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Canadian men have admitted their roles in a stock market scheme that artificially inflated the stock price of two publicly traded companies through manipulative trading and other fraudulent means, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
