News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - After a one-day bench trial, Barry Halajian, 56, of Fresno, was found guilty of two counts of filing false liens on federal bankruptcy judges, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Committee hearing to examine physician owned distributorships (PODs), entities in which physicians derive revenue from the sale of medical devices they prescribe to patients...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Senate Delivers Inhofe 81st Birthday Present
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Sims Ordered to Pay $169,951 in Restitution to IRS in Addition to a $100,000 Fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: FBI, NYSP and Broome County Special Investigations Unit Task Force Led Investigation.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced investments to improve rural community infrastructure, provide essential services and improve access to health care across rural America through Rural Development’s Community Facilities (CF) program. Today’s investments in health facilities and support for first responders comes as the department celebrates National Rural Health Week.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 27-year-old California resident was sentenced to 57 months in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy in Scranton, for possessing with intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Roger Eugene Hagood (44, Fort Myers) today pleaded guilty to four counts of bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison on each count.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced that March Bell has been named Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the subcommittee. Bell served as Senior Counsel for Trafficking in Persons in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: SHARK VALLEY, Florida: Shark Valley is hosting a pre-Thanksgiving Bike Ride on Saturday November 21 starting at 4:15 p.m. The ranger-guided ride will last approximately 3 hours and will be limited to 25 participants; please call the visitor center to make a reservation at (305) 221-8776.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Brandished Two Handguns in Attack.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing titled, “Examining the Regulation of Diagnostic Tests and Laboratory Operations." The hearing builds upon previous discussions as part of the 21st Century Cures process, especially the feedback received...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two men were sentenced on Friday, Nov. 13, 2015, for their roles in a large-scale cocaine trafficking ring run out of a Roslindale restaurant.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: The House and Senate conference committee on surface transportation reauthorization legislation is scheduled to hold a public meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015, in 2167 Rayburn House Office Building. The meeting will also be webcast at www.transport.house.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Three men were indicted today on charges that they violated federal drug law, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today announced that March Bell has been named Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the subcommittee. Bell served as Senior Counsel for Trafficking in Persons in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: There has been a recent increase in illegal harvesting of shellfish and baitfish in the waters of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. The Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge if part of Gateway National Recreation Area (Gateway), and includes not only land, but more than 13,000 acres of water. The harvest of small baitfish, if left unchecked, will impact both migratory birds and other marine life that depend on them as a source of food.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that the United States has reached a settlement that resolves a federal civil rights lawsuit against THE DURST ORGANIZATION, INC. (“DURST"), a major real estate developer based in New York City, and DURST’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Nov. 12, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging 13 individuals with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of...
