News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that late yesterday a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted five federal inmates at the United States Penitentiary Canaan (“USP Canaan"), in Waymart, Pennsylvania, in separate cases involving alleged assaults with a dangerous weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Springdale, UT- Search efforts continued all day Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015 to locate individuals who have been missing since a flash flood occurred Monday in Zion National Park's Keyhole Canyon. The bodies of two additional individuals were located Wednesday, bringing the total number of confirmed fatalities in this incident to six. One individual is still missing.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The park invites visitors to enjoy a car-free morning on Park Loop Road in Acadia from midnight to noon on Saturday, September 26. In celebration of National Public Lands Day, visitors will have free entry all day to the entire park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Walter Boutwell, age 56, of Stephentown, New York, was indicted on Sept. 11, 2015 for failing to register as a sex offender after he moved to New York from Pittsfield, Massachusetts without updating his sex offender registration, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Steven Staltare to three years and one month in federal prison for tax evasion. The Court also ordered restitution to the Internal Revenue Service in the amount of $1,689,248. Staltare pleaded guilty on Dec. 16, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 32-year-old Longview, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for robbing a bank in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A citizen of Mexico has been sentenced in federal court to 57 months of imprisonment with credit for time served, subject to deportation along with three years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, and five kilograms or more of cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the former Director of Marketing and Merchandising for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PA-LCB) pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to a scheme to defraud the state, its citizens and the PA-LCB of their right to his honest services as a public official through bribes, kick-backs and concealing information.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Springfield, Ill., man who led police on a chase through fields in southeastern Springfield on Sept. 1, 2015, has been charged by criminal complaint with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and illegal possession of firearms. Terell Adetunji, (a-de-TUHN-jee) 33, of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Leaked Information Concerned A Year-Long Federal Gang Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Landlords collected thousands of dollars in illegal “side payments" from low-income tenants.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The White House has launched a Climate Action Champions Initiative to recognize local heroes who are devoted to carbon reduction and the resulting weather extremes resulting from climate change - from droughts and wildfires to fierce storms and rising sea levels. 16 models of proactive change were selected...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: The August 4-5, 2015 Reliability and Markets peer review included 16 presentations over six sessions. The Reliability and Markets activity of the Transmission Reliability Program researches, develops, and implements infrastructure to ensure electric reliability while improving the efficiency and economics of market operations. Materials including the agenda and presentations are now available for download.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) introduced the Workplace Action for a Growing Economy (WAGE) Act, legislation to strengthen protections for workers who want to raise wages and improve workplace conditions. The WAGE Act would...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, the IRS announced that additional taxpayers had their personal information compromised in a data breach, far above previous estimates released in May. In response, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) released the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Kevin Lamar Smith, 28, of O’Fallon, Illinois, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Following his prison sentence, Smith...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: VAN BUREN, MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways is proud to help launch the Every Kid in a Park program as part of President Obama's commitment to protect our nation's unique outdoor spaces and ensure that every American has the opportunity to visit and enjoy them.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Benjamin Lloyd Fisher, 42, of Chesapeake, was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges of smuggling goods into the United States and being a prohibited person based on a prior domestic violence conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, a federal judge ruled that the House of Representatives has legal standing in its lawsuit against the Obama administration for spending taxpayer dollars on Obamacare without congressional approval. Now the suit will move forward. In response, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) released the following statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Washington DC. - The Department of Justice today announced 206 awards, totaling more than $97 million, to American Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, tribal consortia and tribal designees. The announcement was made at the 2015 Tribal Leader Briefing, sponsored by the National Congress of American Indians, and included Tribal leaders, Members of Congress and Administration officials.
