News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Six persons have been charged with conspiracy, fraud, filing false claims, and aggravated identity theft, for using the information of deceased persons to file false tax returns so they could obtain millions in fraudulent IRS tax refunds, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is seeking comments on a draft document intended to help employers develop a program to protect employees from retaliation when they raise concerns about workplace conditions or activities that could harm workers or members of the public.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. -A delegation from Gorkhi-Terelj National Park and the Mongolian Department of Protected Areas Management visited Glacier National Park for five days this October. The visit included the signing of a Sister Park Arrangement between Glacier National Park and Gorkhi-Terelj National Park on October 24.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: A Kendall man unlawfully possessed the components of four pipe bombs, in violation of the National Firearms Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for developing hydropower at Drop 5 of the South Canal, part of the Uncompahgre Project in Montrose, Colorado.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement today, after the Obama administration rejected the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Restoration work will restore the glass storefront to the mid-century modern Painted Desert Oasis building designed by famed modern architect Richard Neutra.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 30-year-old Luzerne County man was sentenced on November 5, 2015 to 9 years in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani in Scranton, for possession and sale of a stolen firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced that Trymaine Davis, 26, of East Saint Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on Friday, November 6, 2015, in federal district court, for unlawful possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon. Davis received a sentence of 21 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, a $100 special assessment, and a fine of $250.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Defendants Ordered to Pay $2,008,450 in Restitution to Victim Company.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Las Vegas - Whether you drive, bike, run or walk, you may visit the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area for free on Veterans' Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Wesley Paul Hadsell, 37, of Norfolk, pleaded guilty today to the charge of being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Field Division announced today that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania will be the first city in the nation where the DEA will implement a new comprehensive strategy to address prescription opioid abuse, heroin use, and violent crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco International Airport security screeners have been arrested on charges of defrauding the government and smuggling cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced that, yesterday...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined why protections for U.S. intellectual property rights (IP) are necessary in international trade deals, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and highlighted how Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) requires the administration to consult with Congress extensively before it considers the deal for a vote.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending President Obama’s decision to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: A Kendall man unlawfully possessed the components of four pipe bombs, in violation of the National Firearms Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Three San Francisco International Airport security screeners have been arrested on charges of defrauding the government and smuggling cocaine, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin, Federal Bureau...
