News from October 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Shuster and Graves Opening Statements. Full Committee Markup of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2015. Oct. 22, 2015. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Today we are considering H.R. 3763, the Surface Transportation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident, wanted on charges out of the Southern District of Florida for his alleged participation in a drug trafficking conspiracy, was arrested yesterday in Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: DENVER - John Michael Askins, age 61, of Evergreen, Colorado, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Christine M. Arguello to filing a false income tax return, United States Attorney John Walsh, IRS Criminal Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne announced. Judge Arguello is scheduled to sentence Askins on Jan. 21, 2016. Askins was indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on July 7, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Author Tom Robertson will be speaking about his newly released book, Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon’s Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865 as the inaugural event of our author series at Fort Moultrie.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - DR. DONALD HAVEY and SUSAN RENO pled guilty to charges involving a scheme to bill Medicare for expensive ankle-foot orthotics that were never provided to the patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - David A. Parker, 49, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to evading income tax assessment and payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that the Regional Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF) coordinators from the Pacific Region made their annual visit to Guam and the NMI and provided OCDETF training to law enforcement...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- The Homestead National Parks Trolley received the prestigious 2015 National Park Service (NPS) Director’s Partnership Award. It recognizes the most significant accomplishments achieved by parks and outside groups working together on projects that provide lasting benefits for parks...
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the investigation of the Benghazi attacks...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CALEB TRENT HODGINS, age 20, of Holdenville, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for USE OF TELEPHONE TO COMMUNICATE BOMB THREAT, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 844(e) and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: On Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, a federal grand jury in East St. Louis, IL, returned a 17 count indictment charging 15 individuals, including a Madison, IL, business owner, with numerous charges arising from a stolen property fraud ring, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined concerns regarding the nation’s more than $18 trillion debt and called on the Obama Administration to work with Congress to find a responsible path forward to ensure the nation does not default.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Washington -Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced a recommended decision and asked for public comment on a proposed federal marketing order over the handling of pecans grown in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, North...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: A synthetic drug wholesaler from Oklahoma pled guilty on Oct. 20, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that JONATHAN MIRANDA, age 19, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 87 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for Drug Conspiracy, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former executive director of the Jersey City Child Development Centers Inc. (JCCDC) in Jersey City, New Jersey, was charged today with stealing more than $200,000 from the organization, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: A Pepper Pike woman was sentenced to seven years in prison for an identity-theft scheme in which she attempted to claim nearly $550,000 in fraudulent tax refunds, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Kathy A. Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Under the Navajo-Hopi Land Settlement Act of 1974, the Paragon-Bisti Ranch was set aside for the benefit of Navajo families (relocatees) living on Hopi Partitioned Lands. Now, more than 40 years later, the Navajo Nation is pursuing plans to use those resource-rich lands to cultivate clean, renewable energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) along with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) issued the following joint statement regarding the International Trade Commission’s (ITC) investigation into India’s policies that discriminate against U.S. trade and investment...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: A man who possessed six firearms after having been convicted of a felony offense was sentenced Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2015, to two years in federal prison.
