News from October 2015
By DOE Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration's efforts to cut energy waste in the nation's buildings, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today recognized Placer County for its leadership in improving energy efficiency across its 5-million-square-foot portfolio of county-owned buildings and schools by 20 percent...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced nearly $2.3 billion in loans to build and improve rural electric infrastructure in 31 states.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Death Valley, CA - A series of unusual storms in October caused large amounts of damage throughout Death Valley National Park. Flash floods destroyed significant portions of multiple roads and heavily damaged several historic structures at Scotty's Castle and deposited debris in Devils Hole.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: A Plantation resident was sentenced today to 111 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for his participation in a scheme utilizing stolen identities to commit income tax, unemployment, and credit card fraud. A restitution hearing is scheduled for January 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that the former Executive Director of the Alaska Inter-Tribal Council (“AITC"), a non-profit organization that advocates in support of tribal governments throughout Alaska, was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage to 21 months in...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s grazing staff invites the public to tour the Flodine Park Allotment within Canyons of the Ancients National Monument on Thursday, Oct, 29. This closed allotment is under consideration for reopening, and the tour provides the public an opportunity to learn about the environmental analysis while providing input into the process.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - On Wednesday Oct. 21, 2015, after a three day jury trial, Christopher Raynard Kidd, 27, of San Bernardino, California, was found guilty of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams of more of actual methamphetamine and distribution of 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Qais Hussein, 43, and Majdi Odeh, 45, both of Swansea, Illinois, were sentenced on related charges in the United States District Court in East St. Louis, Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in (SAC) Gary Tuggle of the DEA Philadelphia Field Division was invited to speak with undergraduate students enrolled in a Comparative Politics course at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These students have elected to spend their semester learning about the war...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), held a hearing to review mine safety policies with stakeholders representing industry and labor, as well as safety experts. The latest in a series of hearings focused on worker health and safety, the hearing examined current enforcement policies, as well ways to further improve safety in the mining industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned separate indictments charging John Wilkerson, age 51, of Moultrie, Georgia, and James T. Shank, age 68, of Perry, Georgia, with a wire fraud conspiracy and offering and accepting illegal gratuities, in connection with the award of more than $53 million in federal government contracts. The indictment was returned on October 8, 2015, and unsealed on Oct. 21, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Was a Pastor at Southeast Washington Church.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Indian nationals will appear in federal court today to face charges that they conspired to use commercial airline flights to smuggle foreign nationals into the United States, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Earlier this week, House Speaker John Boehner signed the National Defense Authorization Act, legislation that provides critical resources to help ensure a strong national defense. Despite bipartisan support for the plan, the administration has promised an unprecedented veto that would put America’s troops and national security in jeopardy. Why?
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: “Today, this Office will move to dismiss charges against Michael Steinberg, who was previously convicted at trial, and six cooperating witnesses who pled guilty, all in connection with the same insider trading scheme charged in United States v. Newman and Chiasson. The decision to dismiss these charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Smithville, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving child pornography over the Internet. Jacob A. Arnold, 19, of Smithville, pleaded guilty before...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, spoke on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 10, the Scholarships and Results Act. This legislation would reauthorize the District of Columbia private school voucher program, which is the first and only federally created or funded private school voucher program in the country.
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 delivered the following statement at the full Committee hearing on the Palestinian Authority (PA)’s incitement to violence and the most recent wave of terror in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Twenty-five individuals have been charged in fourteen separate indictments for their alleged participation in a conspiracy to defraud the United States and the National Guard Bureau of money and property, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2015
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 45-year-old Alexandro Silva of El Paso was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison for receipt and distribution of more than 93,000 images of child pornography announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.
