News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Money Shipped to Sacramento; Methamphetamine and Crack Shipped to Island in Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Robert W. McCandless, 38, of Bristol, Florida, was sentenced to 151 months in prison today for interstate domestic violence and interstate violation of a protection order. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama -Cathy Ann Francesca Badal (23) of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015 by United States District Judge Callie V.S. Granade. Badal’s sentence was for possessing and passing counterfeit traveler’s checks, in violation of federal law.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LYNWOOD PATRICK, JR., 40, of East Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to three years of probation, the first six months of which PATRICK must serve in home confinement, for submitting a fraudulent application for a personal mortgage modification.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service, in coordination with the National Park Foundation and Humana Inc., has established October 8th as "Senior Skip Day." On this day, set aside to celebrate the health benefits of national parks, all U.S. citizens 62 years of age or older can download a voucher from the Humana website to exchange for an Interagency Senior pass. These vouchers can be downloaded from: www.HumanaSeniorSkipDay.com.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Select Committee on Benghazi, penned the following op-ed in Politico.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and committee member Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) introduced the Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick Whistleblower Protection Act. The bill is named after Dr. Chris Kirkpatrick, a psychologist at the...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: A Riviera Beach man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in prison for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Enterprise Masonry Corp., 3010 Bellevue Ave., Wilmington, Delaware. The inspection site was The Flats, 4th and Union Street in Wilmington.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: The FAA and general aviation (GA) group’s #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on how to prevent Loss of Control (LOC) accidents this flying season.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, October 7, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine U.S. international food aid programs and ways to make those programs more efficient and effective. The hearing, entitled “Reforming Food Aid: Desperate Need to do Better," will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department announced several new and exciting innovations and programs during Industry Day held at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee Sept. 23-24. This included unveiling a 3-D printed building with integrated energy storage via bidirectional wireless power transfer to and from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Paul G. Byron has sentenced Radbourne Mark Anthony Saleem (40, Palm Coast) to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing a machinegun and silencer and assaulting a federal officer. He pleaded guilty on November 5, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a Committee hearing examining how improper payments, including overpayments and underpayments, plague the federal bureaucracy and divert scarce resources away from vital programs.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -Based on the projected track of Hurricane Joaquin, Cape Lookout National Seashore has implemented its emergency weather evacuation plan. Cape Lookout National Seashore will evacuate all visitors from the National Seashore beginning on Thursday morning, October 1.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted National Cyber Security Awareness Month, which begins October 1. During the month of October, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the National Cyber Security Alliance,...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz hosted a roundtable discussion yesterday with local disability rights activists to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Crews finished repairing a break in the Transcanyon Pipeline that occurred north of Phantom Ranch earlier this week. Drinking water is again available at Cottonwood Campground and Manzanita Rest Area (formerly Pumphouse Residence) on the North Kaibab Trail.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme that claimed $433,365 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Stevie Coates, 41, of New York, N.Y., who was convicted of smuggling goods into the United States, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
