News from May 2015
By DOT News Wire | May 21, 2015
News Release: FRA will take additional steps in coming days to address speed and curves on ALL passenger corridors
By DOT News Wire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The news comes on the anniversary of GM’s historic agreement with NHTSA after facing record fines for the long-delayed Chevrolet Cobalt recall
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: In the eighth in the series of videos introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., today outlines his priorities of advancing an all-of-the-above and a “states first" approach to energy production that develops all of America’s energy resources in tandem while putting states in charge of their own energy futures.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on May 19, DAMONT GEE, also known as “Monty," 39, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Nursing Home Owners Agree to Abide By Corporate Integrity Agreement to Prevent Future Allegations of Overmedicating Residents.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two people allegedly involved in an extensive scheme to obtain U.S. Government funds through fraudulently obtained refund checks issued by the U.S. Treasury were charged today for their involvement in the scam, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that four Mexican nationals have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy that produced and sold thousands of false identification documents to illegal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man who was shot during his arrest in July of 2014 was sentenced today to seven years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Paul Christopher Johnson, 43, of Parkersburg, West Virginia previously pleaded guilty in February of 2015 to being a felon...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James Eggleston, 34, of Ellsworth, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to1½ years in prison and five years of supervised release for failing to register as a sex offender under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act. Eggleston pleaded guilty to the charge on February 5, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JAMES CONRAD, JR., age 50, New Orleans, was sentenced today to one year and one day imprisonment for the theft of $247,800 in government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: On May 18, 2015, Ahamad R. Atkins, a/k/a "Omar," and "O," 34, of Colp, IL, was sentenced for a federal drug violation, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Xiaoxing Xi, 47, of Penn Valley, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, with four counts of wire fraud in an alleged scheme involving the exploitation of technology for the benefit of third parties in China. Xi, a naturalized U.S. citizen and a native of the People’s Republic of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man involved in several CrossFit training businesses was arrested this morning by the FBI in connection with a scheme to defraud various potential investors, lenders and business partners out of over $2 million, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Visitors are urged to avoid arriving at park mid-day, due to anticipated high visitation.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: This month, the BLM Idaho in cooperation with other resource partners is launching a new fire education campaign to encourage fire-safe practices within a unique ecosystem -- the sagebrush steppe. Called "Steppe Up," this campaign is designed to increase public awareness of how human-caused wildfires...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, returned an indictment against five individuals for participating in bid rigging and fraud conspiracies at an auction for public school bus transportation contracts in Puerto Rico’s Caguas municipality, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU -- Marvin L. Ware, 46, a Sergeant First Class with the 25th Infantry Division, 325th Brigade Support Battalion, Alpha Company, Schofield Army Barracks, Hawai’i has been indicted and arrested on federal charges arising from his alleged role in a scheme to steal jet fuel from Forward Operating Base Fenty, near Jalalabad, Afghanistan, in exchange for cash bribes from an Afghan trucking contractor.
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Trade Promotion Authority establishes rules and negotiating objectives that the administration must follow when conducting trade talks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Four people have been charged for their involvement in a drug and money laundering conspiracy, three of whom have also been designated as Specially Designated Narcotics (SDNTs), announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Utah is seeking public nominations for five open positions on its Utah Resource Advisory Council (RAC).The BLM will consider nominations until June 22, 2015. The BLM's RACs, composed of citizens chosen for their expertise in natural resource issues, help the Bureau...
