News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a grand jury in Scranton indicted Corey Strope, age 37, of Sayre, Pennsylvania yesterday with conspiracy to distribute and possession with intent to distribute bath salts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Tyrone Anthony Jones, 32, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and conspiracy to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges has sentenced Reginald Wardell Howard, Jr. (37, Ocala) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. A federal jury found him guilty of the offense on June 17, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Inhofe, Blunt, Manchin Introduce Resolution on International Climate Agreement
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The effects of climate change are being felt worldwide, impacting every corner of the planet and every sector of the global economy. With the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) just two weeks away, more than 150 countries, representing...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?" Testifying were officials from the Centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Today, former Tucson resident April Escobedo, 43, of Las Vegas, Nev., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 27 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay $255,189 in restitution to the United States Treasury. Escobedo previously pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Senators to Pres. Obama: No International Climate Funding without Senate Approval
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed exchange between Contra Costa Water District, Alameda County Water District, and Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation District Zone 7.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its work to better understand the ways new technologies are disrupting the status quo and impacting jobs and the economy. Adding to the subcommittee’s review of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey certified public accountant who ran a tax return preparation business with his wife was sentenced today to four years in prison for his role in a multi-year tax fraud scheme, in which he filed hundreds of false tax returns with the IRS to generate fraudulently inflated refunds for clients, some of which he took for himself, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work on flu preparedness, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled, “U.S. Public Health Preparedness for Seasonal Influenza: Has the Response Improved?" Testifying were officials from the Centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan has reached a settlement with the Mt. Pleasant Public School District to resolve allegations that the district violated the Americans with...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The effects of climate change are being felt worldwide, impacting every corner of the planet and every sector of the global economy. With the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP21) just two weeks away, more than 150 countries, representing...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its work to better understand the ways new technologies are disrupting the status quo and impacting jobs and the economy. Adding to the subcommittee’s review of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Demond R. Banks, a 41 year old, resident of Daphne, Alabama was sentenced today to 68 months incarceration followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine ICE and the use of a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: Physician Sentenced to 72 Months in Prison for Role in Detroit-Area Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury Thursday indicted a Kansas City man on a charge of robbing a credit union in Prairie Village, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee led a bicameral group of Congressional Members in sending a letter to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to encourage the Employee Benefits Security Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2015
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Heath Powers, age 34, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced today to serve 40 years in prison as a result of his convictions for production, distribution and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
