News from September 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This afternoon, a federal judge ruled that the House of Representatives does have standing in its lawsuit challenging the administration’s disbursement of Obamacare cost-sharing reduction subsidies that were never funded by Congress.The suit can now move forward, and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently awarded $24.5 million in Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) grants to 14 airports around the country to reduce emissions and improve air quality through the FAA’s Voluntary Airport Low Emission (VALE) and Zero Emissions Airport Vehicle (ZEV) programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Faces at least 5 years and up to 20 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Zion National Park will be holding a press conference Sept. 16, 2015 at 10:00 am regarding the Keyhole Canyon fatality incident. The press conference will be at Zion National Park’s Emergency Operations Center. The Emergency Operations Center is adjacent to the park headquarters building, ½ mile north of the Zion Canyon Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Matthew J. Holmes, 31, of Santa Fe, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 130 months in prison for his cocaine base trafficking conviction. Holmes will be on supervised release for four years after completing his term of imprisonment. The court also entered an order requiring Holmes to forfeit $4,146.00 found in Holmes’ possession when he was arrested.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Gunnison Field Office plans to begin a prescribed burn in the Indian Creek fuels treatment project area as early as Tuesday, September 22 or as conditions allow. The prescribed burn will treat about 125 acres of sage and ponderosa pine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Bruce Sanchez Convicted on Charges arising out of Scheme to Embezzle $3,575,000.00 from Indian Pueblo Federal Development Corporation.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Four Orphaned Fisher Kits Released Yesterday North of the Merced River.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Eight Tribes in New Mexico Receive More Than $8 Million in Grant Awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Scott Ponce, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to being an armed career criminal. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Ponce will be sentenced to 15 years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Ponce’s sentence was enhanced to a minimum of 15 years in prison, as opposed to a maximum ten years, based on his status as an armed career criminal.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kayaba Industry Co. Ltd., dba KYB Corporation (KYB) has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $62 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix the price of shock absorbers installed in cars and motorcycles sold to U.S. consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Hackers Targeted Major Payment Processors, Retailers and Financial Institutions Around the World.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Brian Lipscomb is president and CEO of Energy Keepers, Inc., a tribal corporation established in the fall of 2012 to manage the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes’ (CSKT’s) acquisition of Kerr Dam. On Sept. 5, 2015, CKST became the first Tribes in the nation to own a major hydroelectric facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Preston Brown, Sr. -, 51, of Woodland, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute bath salts.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Total Wall Inc., 390 Viking Circle, Rio, Wisconsin
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, was arrested today for allegedly possessing and distributing sexually suggestive images of children, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Karen Liane Miller, 60, of Nashville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty yesterday to filing a false claim with the U.S. government, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) introduced H.R. 3516, the Social Security Beneficiary 2nd Amendment Rights Protection Act. This legislation would stop the Obama administration’s attempt to limit the Second Amendment rights of millions of Social Security beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON--The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 44-year-old Hazleton resident was indicted by a federal grand jury late yesterday in Scranton, on 10 counts of distribution and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark P. Durinski, 63, of Limestone, Maine, pleaded guilty on Monday in U.S. District Court to making false statements and entries in annual reports filed with the U.S. Department of Labor.
