News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review a draft environmental assessment analyzing the impacts of approving an exchange of up to 6,048 acre-feet of groundwater for up to 3,024 acre-feet of refuge (or Level 2) water with the San Luis Water District.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Williamsburg attorney was arrested today on a federal indictment returned yesterday, charging her with participating in a conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, as well as numerous counts of mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft related to the transfer of thousands of timeshare units into the names of stolen identities and straw owners.
By State Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement after U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (U.N.) Samantha Power confirmed Iran violated a U.N. Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) banning ballistic missile testing:
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GAUNTLETT SMITH, also known as “Clansman," 40, a citizen of Jamaica last residing in Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to marijuana distribution and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William J. Bratton, the Commissioner of the Police Department for the City of New (NYPD), announced the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Coy C. Klinger, age 38, of Lower Paxton Township, Pennsylvania was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison by United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, in Harrisburg for sex trafficking of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment today against 14 individuals, charging them with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MEXICO CITY— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson was in Mexico City today and yesterday, where he met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Secretary of Interior Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, and Foreign Minister Claudia Ruiz Massieu, to discuss our shared security and commercial interests.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Today, 795 million people around the world do not have access to a sufficient supply of safe and nutritious food. The United Nations estimates that worldwide demand for food will increase 70 percent by 2050. To meet this need, production in developing countries will need to almost double.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 15, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will award $30 million to projects in six states to protect, restore and enhance wetlands on private and tribal agricultural lands. The projects are being funded under the Wetland Reserve Enhancement Partnership (WREP), a program authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Over the past six years, USDA has worked with private landowners to implement voluntary conservation practices that conserve and clean the water we drink. USDA support—leveraged with historic outside investments—boosts producer incomes and rewards them for their good work. At the same time, USDA investments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Alaska Department of Law announced that they are bringing to a close the federal and state judicial actions against ExxonMobil Corporation and its corporate predecessors regarding the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. The Prince William Sound, Alaska, harlequin ducks and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: The United States has taken comprehensive enforcement action to resolve several years of significant noncompliance by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) with its obligations under the federal Clean Water Act and the permit that governs day-to-day operations of its stormwater drainage ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with North American Shipbuilding LLC, a company located in Larose, Louisiana. The agreement resolves a complaint filed with the Justice Department’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: A Phenix City, Alabama, woman was sentenced to serve five years in prison today in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama for her involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud (SIRF) scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Mostafa Ahmed Awwad, 36, of Yorktown, Virginia, was sentenced today to 132 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson of the Eastern District of Virginia for attempted espionage relating to his attempt to provide schematics of the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to Egypt while serving as a Navy engineer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: On her first official visit to Colombia, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch traveled to Bogota to head the U.S. delegation to the Organization of American States REMJA X, the 10th Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the Americas. While in Colombia, the Attorneys General delivered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL and Computer Hacking Related to the Theft and Distribution of U.S. Military and Federal Employee Personal Information Malaysian authorities have detained Kosovo citizen Ardit Ferizi in Malaysia on a U.S. provisional arrest warrant alleging that ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: As head of the United States delegation, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews delivered welcoming remarks today at the first-ever Tbilisi Silk Road Forum in Tbilisi, Georgia. Hosted by Prime Minister of Georgia Irakli Garibashvili, the Forum brought together 32 countries and almost 1,000 participants to exchange best practices, maximize opportunities and address challenges of how to strengthen regional cooperation.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 15, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the first round of grant recipients under the Obama Administration’s Partnership for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization (POWER) Initiative. POWER is led by the EDA and aligns the resources of four federal agencies, the Department ...
