News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Also Admits Failure to Collect More Than $100,000 in Payroll Taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ -North Rim operations will begin seasonal shut-down of most visitor services on Friday, October 16. The North Rim will remain open to visitors, closing for winter on Tuesday, December 1or until snow closes State Highway 67 leading into the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kevin Lewis, 40, of Glocester, R.I., pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence today to manufacturing (meth), announced Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Glocester Police Chief Joseph S. Delprete.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Case is One of Many Prosecuted Under United States Attorney Stephen R. Wigginton’s.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement upon passage of S. 139, the Ensuring Access to Clinical Trials Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - One current and three former U.S. Army soldiers were sentenced today in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina for their involvement in a bribery scheme in Afghanistan that resulted in the theft of fuel valued at more than $10 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Washington -In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on the Obama Administration to ensure any agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP meets the bipartisan objectives of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) as laid out by Congress. The speech came as another round of talks between TPP trade ministers is taking place in Atlanta this week.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: PARIS - The Centre Pomidou welcomed the 1911 Picasso painting “La Coiffeuse" home last week after a prolonged absence from the museum’s archives. The painting, valued at $15 million, was recovered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Operation Toile and was returned to French authorities in Washington, D.C. on August 13.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: CÓRDOBA, Argentina - Three hundred police officers, prosecutors and corrections officers from the province of Córdoba, Argentina, participated in training last week to help them combat cross border crime. The training was hosted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Buenos Aires Attaché Office and the Department of State's International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Bureau (INL).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a project to rehabilitate park landscaping at the triangle bounded by Massachusetts Avenue, 24th and S Streets, NW. This area, known as U.S. Reservation 302, contains a sculpture of Irish patriot Robert Emmet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - - Robert Duane Moriarty, 36, and Sara Skan, 35, of Ketchikan, Alaska, were sentenced today in Juneau by U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess. Moriarity received a sentence of 60 months of imprisonment followed by a five year term of supervised release, and Skan received 18...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Brandon Paetzold, 35, of Wheeling, was convicted today of knowingly providing false information in order to purchase firearms, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: One Current and Three Former U.S. Army Soldiers Sentenced for Fuel Theft Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: “This settlement is a great example of a cooperative, company-wide effort to reduce air pollution and will mean cleaner air for communities across the country, where glass manufacturing is currently a significant source of the air pollutants that cause serious lung and heart problems," said Attorney...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement during a markup of tax and health legislation, including the EACH Act and a set of bills to make certain temporary tax provisions permanent.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - The United States announced today that it has settled claims under the False Claims Act with St. Francis Hospital for improperly billing Medicare and Medicaid for patients admitted into its inpatient rehabilitation unit in Wilmington, Delaware between 2007 and 2010, when admission...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today released a new report showing strong progress for the U.S. offshore wind market-including the start of construction of the nation’s first commercial-scale offshore wind farm, one of 21 projects totaling 15,650 megawatts (MW) in the planning and development pipeline. Of these...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today released the following statement after the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law concluded a hearing that examined proposed health insurance mergers and the possible consequential impact on marketplace competition...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Two men have been separately charged with possession of mail that had been stolen from various condominium complexes throughout Broward County, Florida.
By State Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine cyber war and its implications for U.S. foreign policy. The hearing is entitled “Cyber War: Definitions, Deterrence, and Foreign Policy.".
