News from November 2015
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration invites interested parties to a facilitated discussion about the agency's updated draft Safety and Health Program Management Guidelines on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2015, from 1-3 p.m. at the U.S. Department of Labor's Frances Perkins Building in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Regent Management Services L.P. has agreed to pay approximately $3.199 million to settle allegations that it received kickbacks from various ambulance companies in exchange for rights to Regent’s more lucrative Medicare and Medicaid transport referrals, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson...
By DOL Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: SEAFORD, Del. - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched an investigation on May 28, 2015, after learning of a worker amputation at Seaford Ice Inc. The agency found that the employee fell into an unguarded conveyer opening while breaking ice, which resulted in the amputation of both of his legs below the knee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor sentenced two defendants to lengthy federal prison sentences today for their respective roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that operated in the Dallas - Fort Worth area since 2013, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: COLUMBIA, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney for the District of South Carolina Bill Nettles announced today that Piedmont Pathology Associates, Inc. and Piedmont Pathology, P.C., a diagnostic anatomic pathology group located in Hickory, North Carolina, has agreed to pay the United States $500,000 to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge and Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument are looking for birders of all skill levels for this year's Christmas Bird Count. The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a National Audubon Society tradition in its 116th year and has occurred annually in Ajo since 1998. This year...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Forty-five National Park Service staff members from various parks reported for duty today at Death Valley to renew cleanup and repair efforts after a series of rainstorms caused repeated flash flooding, resulting in one of the greatest and costliest storms in park history. The storms culminated in an...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyrell Askerneese, 37, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Nov. 30, 2015, George Marcus Hall, 45, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to an information charging him with operating an illegal gambling operation and money laundering. He was released under the supervision of the U.S. Probation office pending his sentencing hearing set for 10:00 a.m., on Apr. 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that ENERGY RESOURCE TECHNOLOGY GOM, LLC (ERT), was charged with two felony counts of violating the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act and two felony counts of violating the Clean Water Act related to conduct on its offshore oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Irving Gonzalez-Bocanegra, 25, of Sonora, Mexico, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for wire fraud and possession of fifteen or more unauthorized access devices, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Gonzalez-Bocanegra to pay restitution in the amount of $13,301.64. Gonzalez-Bocanegra pleaded guilty on August 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriquez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the indictment of DAVID KEITH, a/k/a “David Wright," a/k/a “David Lee Keith," for four counts stemming from his sexual exploitation and enticement of minors and his receipt of child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: John Ruhs began his duties as the new State Director for the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada today.Ruhs previously served as the Director of BLM's Eastern States and had been the acting State Director for Nevada from April through September. He has extensive experience in land management in the west...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles sentenced Richard Alan Blank, Jr., age 44, of LaVale, Maryland, today to 30 years in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for two counts of sexually abusing a minor to produce child pornography, and for possession of child pornography. A federal jury convicted Blank on July 2, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), along with the Committee’s Democratic members, on Wednesday will continue “Trading Views: Real Debates on Key Issues in TPP " with a session focusing on the investment chapter in TPP. The Committee’s Democratic trade staff have prepared an issue analysis paper [PDF here] that will be distributed at the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 55 years in prison for committing three armed robberies, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC LONERGAN, 23, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute, and to distribute, MDMA (“Molly"). The charge stems from an investigation into the distribution of controlled substances that caused multiple Wesleyan University students to overdose earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: A man who was found in possession of two firearms during a traffic stop pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed on Nov. 25, 2015 charging a 25-year-old Carbondale man with receiving child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Effective immediately, all previously issued fire bans are lifted within Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.Campfires are now allowed on the exposed lakebed, below the high water mark of 1290' elevation.All campfires within developed areas must be contained within NPS provided fire receptacles.
