News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Renee Green (619) 546-6775.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Quentin Jones, 42, and Lawrence Peterson, 40, both of Madison, Wis., were sentenced by U.S. District Judge James Peterson for selling heroin. On Aug. 27, Jones was sentenced to 54 months...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Richard Lobato, 51, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Lobato was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 15, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- The Wyoming Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation will implement two short-term temporary closures of a section of Seminoe Road between the Miracle Mile bridge over the North Platte River below Kortes Dam, and the North Red Hills entrance to Seminoe State Park, according to Carlie Ronca, Wyoming Area Manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Six men who were aboard Southwest Airlines flight 1522 yesterday in route from San Diego to Chicago that was diverted to Rick Husband International Airport in Amarillo, Texas, for the safety of the flight crew and passengers, have each been charged in a federal criminal complaint with interference with a flight crew and aiding and abetting. U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement this afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: The leader of a group of men who distributed heroin and cocaine and planned to use firearms to rob what they believed to be a drug stash house was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: The year-long celebration of Rocky Mountain National Park's 100th Anniversary culminates with rededication events this week. A celebration is scheduled for Sept. 3, at Holzwarth Historic Site on the west side of the park. The official rededication ceremony will be held on September 4, at Glacier Basin Campground on the east side of the park.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks members for a new Community Resilience Panel, part of the institute's effort to reduce the heavy toll that natural, technological and human-caused hazards inflict on U.S. communities.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and an honorary Congressional Co-Chair of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Preparedness Month released the following statement to highlight the beginning of September and National Preparedness Month...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Neb. - A Norfolk flooring materials company tried to hide hazardous machines from federal inspectors and threatened to fire employees who complained about unsafe working conditions during an investigation into why a 65-year-old temporary worker suffered the amputation of one finger and severe damage to another when his left hand was caught as he operated a machine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Two missing hikers have been located at Glacier National Park. The two female hikers are employees in the Science and Resource Management Division at Glacier National Park. A friend of one employee and a family member of the other employee both contacted park staff to report the overdue hikers early Monday morning, Aug. 31, after the two had not returned from a personal day hike Sunday night as planned.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Allen Buckner, 22, of Farmington, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a bank robbery charge. The guilty plea was entered without the benefit of a plea agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - The owner of Premier Fastax in Laredo and Rio Bravo has been taken into custody on charges of tax fraud, announced U.S. Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI). Maria Elena Ramirez is charged in a 23-count indictment alleging she assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, filed false tax returns and obstructing the Internal Revenue Code.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) sent a to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, requesting data and documents about the events leading up to the EPA’s Animas spill and the corresponding response effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Five individuals have been convicted and sentenced in federal court for unlawful steroid distribution, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: Lawrence Foster, 50, from Miami Beach, was sentenced today to 152 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Donald L. Graham, for conspiring to commit wire fraud and committing substantive counts of wire fraud, and was ordered to pay over $8 million in restitution. The Court also ordered the forfeiture of over $1 million that was seized by federal law enforcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette woman pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding investors out of more than $1.27 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: If every state in the nation adopted up-to-date residential building energy efficiency codes-only 10 states have done so-the energy savings realized over a decade from all houses built in just one year would total about 2.4 billion kilowatt hours (kWh). That's enough to power all the homes in Tucson, Ariz., for a year.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a workshop on industry best practices in cyber supply chain risk management at its Gaithersburg, Md., campus, October 1-2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced today that SWN Production (Arkansas), LLC f/k/a SEECO, Inc., of Texas (collectively "SEECO") has agreed to pay the United States $950,000 to resolve civil claims against SEECO related to mineral trespass. According to the executed agreement, SEECO must remit full payment within 45 days.
