News from October 2015
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Big Bend National Park is temporarily closing the popular Lost Mine Trail area due to increased bear activity. Hike-in designated campsites at Laguna Meadow, also in the park's Chisos Mountains, are closed to overnight use as well.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for participating in a four-year narcotics trafficking and money laundering scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the decision by Republican Committee staff to withhold from Democratic Committee Members their own copies of videos produced by David Daleiden, the founder of the Center for Medical Progress...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Carlos Salvador Fernandez, 47, to 25 months in prison and three years of supervised release for reentering the United States after having been deported, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. On June 10, 2015, Fernandez pleaded guilty to reentry after deportation.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Republican House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi urging the House to pass a multi-year surface transportation bill without delay. The Senate passed its six-year authorization bill, the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act (DRIVE Act), on July 30th.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that VERNON SABURO DULEI, was sentenced today, in the District Court of Guam by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood, to sixteen months incarceration, and five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Federico Sandoval Aguilar, 43, of Biggs, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 17 ½ years in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LORENZO CARTER, 20, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -At 1:20 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 9 the United States Park Police and United States Secret Service responded to an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or drone, spotted flying in the vicinity of the Washington Monument. Flying any kind of UAS or drone anywhere in Washington, D.C. or in national parks is illegal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, California - Federico Sandoval Aguilar, 43, y residente de Biggs, fue sentenciado hoy por la Juez del Distrito de los Estados Unidos Kimberly J. Mueller a 17 años y medio de prisión por conspirar a distribuir metanfetamina, anuncio el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), the chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) have asked the Department of Labor (DOL) to provide information on the proposed enforcement of a new “multiemployer citation standard" at the Occupational Safety and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, California - Federico Sandoval Aguilar, 43, y residente de Biggs, fue sentenciado hoy por la Juez del Distrito de los Estados Unidos Kimberly J. Mueller a 17 años y medio de prisión por conspirar a distribuir metanfetamina, anuncio el Procurador de los Estados Unidos Benjamín B. Wagner.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Zebulon Resolve Wendt, 34, of Chesterfield County, pleaded guilty today to producing child pornography of a local juvenile whom he had babysat and sexually abused and exploited on numerous occasions.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Medicare Part D Medication Therapy Management Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: A woman who filed more than 150 fraudulent tax returns over a three year period and stole the identity of a woman to file a fraudulent tax return was sentenced on Oct. 13, 2015, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Caroline Ciraolo, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Tax Division, announced today that MICHAEL J. MITROW, Jr. (“MITROW"), the former CEO and President of a pharmaceutical marketing company...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today released a number of staff drafted proposals as part of the committee’s ongoing work to keep families safe on America’s roads. The subcommittee has...
