News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Kurtis Kelvin McGill, age 55, of Baltimore today to 11 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ERIC GIVENS, a former police officer with the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (“Amtrak"), and the former treasurer of the national union for Amtrak police officers, was sentenced in Manhattan federal court late yesterday to 16 months in prison for embezzling union funds. GIVENS previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres, who imposed yesterday’s sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ahead of the International Energy Agency’s Ministerial in Paris, which serves as a lead-up to the COP21 UN Climate Negotiations, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today released the 2015 Revolution…Now report, which details the state of several clean energy technologies in the U.S. that provide technology solutions to climate change.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., the committee’s ranking member, sent a bipartisan letter to Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz requesting a study on the impact of thermal insulation on water and energy use within federal buildings and facilities.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: TEMPLE, Texas - Twice in 14 months, MooreCo Inc. temporary workers were seriously injured when inadequately guarded machines pulled them in, removing skin from the wrist up to the shoulder in the most recent incident, and from the wrist down in an earlier incident. As a result of the earlier incident, the employee's fingertips were also amputated.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement today about the deadly attacks in Paris, France.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Disrupter Series: The Fast-Evolving Uses and Economic Impacts of Drones."
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: STEVENS POINT, Wis. -State and industry experts warned Friday that not only do two major new federal rules potentially impose devastating costs on Wisconsinites and represent a great expansion of government power but that the regulations are so vague, citizens cannot be clear what they will be prohibited from doing.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: A Miami-area pharmacy owner was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for her role in the submission of more than $1.5 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare Part D.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Alexis Rahkeem Carter, aka Bishop, 25, of Fairfax, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for sex trafficking of a child.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Stress: What does it feel like to you? Maybe like pressure from multiple directions, trying to push and pull and twist you all at once? If so, you've described it the same way engineers describe stress on a solid object-and a team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has taken a major step toward measuring it usefully in cutting-edge materials.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 20-count indictment today against Rudolfo Delgadillo, 35, of Woodlake; Alejandro Zavala, 22, of Cutler; and Fabian Magana, 24, of Orosi, charging them with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and various other...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: U.K. Man Arraigned on Conspiracy to Illegally Export Restricted Chemical Laboratory Equipment to Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Kevin Maynard is ordered to perform 200 hours of community service in the service of veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carlos Chavez, 37, of Hobbs, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to being a felon in possession of a firearm under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Nov. 19, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Disrupter Series: The Fast-Evolving Uses and Economic Impacts of Drones."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Sawed-off Shotgun Used During Convenience Store Robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the Cantua Creek Stream Group Improvement Project.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: QUEENS COUNTY, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, New York State Police Superintendent Joseph A. D’Amico, and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, today announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore has announced his resignation as the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Mr. Moore submitted his resignation to the President on Monday, November 9, 2015.
