News from May 2015
By DOE Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plans to include broadband in the Universal Service Fund’s Lifeline program...
By Interior Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Today the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) released final environmental reviews for land-use plans in Idaho and Southwest Montana that will help to conserve greater sage-grouse habitat and support sustainable economic development. The land management plans, developed...
By EPA Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today requested briefings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Defense regarding the recent reports of live anthrax being shipped to nine states and South Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury, yesterday, handed up guilty verdicts against Robert G. Wray, 75, of Torrey, Utah, on charges that he conspired with a Lehigh County doctor of osteopathy to defraud the Department of Health and Human Service and the Internal Revenue Service. The fraud scheme, in which Wray...
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: Defendants trafficked heroin and other drugs to the Red Lake and White Earth Indian Reservations from Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of failing to register as a sex offender, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 28, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Aaron Ortiz, 31, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 92 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. -Ulicis Acevedo-Yanez, 38, of Troutdale, Oregon, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Michael W. Mosman to 96 months in prison following his federal conviction for possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine. When the defendant is released from prison, he will serve four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Samuel Franklin Crews (32, Lake City) to seven years and eight months in federal prison for knowingly receiving images and videos of child pornography over the Internet. He has been in custody since his arrest on Dec. 31, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. today announced the indictment of a New Albany, Indiana, man on charges of interstate transportation for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to 25 years in prison for a string of armed robberies in Tuscaloosa in 2012, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Hyche.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 26, 2015, Roberto Miguel Nanez, 31, of Sacaton, Ariz., a member of the Gila River Indian Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 57 months in prison. Nanez previously pleaded guilty to domestic assault by a habitual offender.
By Homeland Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MANHATTAN, KS – Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack today broke ground to officially begin construction of the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF) main laboratory structure in Manhattan, Kansas.
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 27, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Blueprint for Stronger Service initiative has created $1.4 billion in savings, efficiencies, and cost avoidances, while the agriculture sector continues to experience its most productive ...
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. May 27, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that farmers, ranchers and private forest landowners can now do business with U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) through a new online portal. With today's launch of Conservation ...
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 27, 2015 – Acting Chief Economist Robert Johansson today announced the appointment of Dr. Seth Meyer as the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB) Chairman. Dr. Meyer is currently a Senior Economist with the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) on assignment to WAOB and will assume his new duties May 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The Defendants Include Two Current FIFA Vice Presidents and the Current and Former Presidents of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF); Seven Defendants Arrested Overseas; Guilty Pleas for Four Individual Defendants and Two Corporate Defendants Also ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The United States filed a complaint to permanently bar a Louisville, Kentucky, man and his business, NJ Mobile Tax Service, LLC, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Luis Esparza Services, Inc. (LES), a farm labor contractor company based in Bakersfield, California, resolving claims that the company discriminated against individuals because of citizenship status in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). This agreement contains the largest civil penalty the Justice Department has ever secured to resolve a discrimination claim under the INA.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Today, a federal jury in Detroit convicted two members of the violent Phantom Outlaw Motorcycle Club, one of whom also was a member of the Vice Lords street gang, on separate crimes of conspiracy to commit murder in aid of racketeering, and assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering and a firearms offense.
