News from September 2015
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced a proposed rule today to update and replace its regulations governing the measurement of oil produced from onshore Federal and Indian leases. The requirements contained in the proposed rule reflect advances in measurement technology and critical updates in...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement on Speaker John Boehner (R-OH).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted Neal Morton on bank fraud and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas McMahon.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service has contracted Sealaska Constructors LLC to remove a several large boulders in the Elwha River channel just downstream of Glines Canyon. Workers have detonated three controlled blasts to date, with at least one additional explosion still to come. This contract is included in the $325 million Elwha River Restoration project cost.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting applications for the 2016 Borlaug Global Research Alliance Fellowships. Fellows will work with a mentor at USDA’s Agricultural Research Service or a U.S. university for up to 12 weeks on climate change mitigation research. The U.S. mentor will later visit the fellow’s home institution to continue collaboration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Jean Sanborn of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to thirty (30) months imprisonment and three years supervised release in United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile, Alabama on Sept. 28, 2015. Sanborn had pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 10th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 42 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Witness: Ms. Cecile Richards, President, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. TAKEAWAYS: * Planned Parenthood does not need federal subsidies. * Planned Parenthood is self-sustaining. ** Reported revenue of $1.3 billion in their most recent annual report. ** Reported $127 million in net...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The plea is the result of an investigation on the part of the United States Postal Inspection Service, under the direction of Acting Inspector in Charge James Buthorn, Boston Division, and Special Agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, under the direction of Special Agent in Charge James C. Spero.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Rai Johnson, 36, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition and violation of supervised release, was sentenced to 26 months in prison by U.S. Senior District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A new system that incorporates a digital camera to detect pathogens that cause foodborne illness has been developed by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA ) scientists.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Lawrence man was sentenced Tuesday to 201 months in federal prison in a marijuana trafficking case. He also was sentenced to a consecutive 30 months on a supervised release violation in a prior case.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles Wooden and Hendrickx H. Toussaint, a now disbarred lawyer, have been sentenced to federal prison for operating a real estate-based Ponzi scheme that took in almost $5 million dollars from out-of-state and foreign investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: On Sept. 14, 2015, and Sept. 24, 2015, James Scott Rankin, 45, and Thomas A. O’Grady, 50, both of Carbondale, IL, were sentenced for their involvement in a methamphetamine conspiracy, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Two Mexican nationals nabbed at grow operation in Boise County, north of Banks.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement announcing his opposition to the so-called Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act (HR 3457)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced to more than six years in prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - The hospitalization of a Hartford worker for acute dehydration and kidney failure due to heat stress should not have happened.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: GLACIER BAY NATIONAL PARK, AK - The National Park Service has selected the businesses which will provide exclusive tour vessel and related services in Glacier Bay starting next spring. A prospectus soliciting contract proposals was issued in December 2014. A panel of technical experts reviewed each proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: EL PASO, Texas - Today, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Texas Department of Public (DPS) conducted a round up, dubbed Operation Tangled Web. A total of 13 defendants were arrested for Texas state drug and other crimes with one additional defendant already in custody. Operation Tangled Web consists of...
