News from September 2015
By DOE Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) today released the fifth edition of the Carbon Storage Atlas (Atlas V), which shows prospective carbon dioxide (CO2) storage resources of at least 2,600 billion metric tons - an increase over the findings of the 2012 Atlas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Caleb J. Petzoldt, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on Sept. 11, 2015, two U.S. Probation officers went to the defendant’s home on Sweet Avenue in Buffalo to conduct an unscheduled home visit. While attempting to make contact with Hunt, one...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lancaster man was sentenced today to 80 months in federal prison on fraud charges related to a scheme to defraud the state’s unemployment insurance program and a related scheme to obtain fraudulent federal tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Special Assistant U. S. Attorney Emily Reuter (619) 546-9706.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Colorado man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally trafficking in paddlefish caviar after being caught in an undercover operation in the Warsaw, Mo., area.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Patchogue, NY - Fire Island National Seashore Superintendent Chris Soller announced today that a mosquito sample collected September 16 tested positive for West Nile virus (WNV). The mosquitoes were collected as part of the Seashore's weekly Mosquito Monitoring Program, which will be extended into October in response to this detection. The program is a collaborative effort between the Seashore and Suffolk County Department of Health Services.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Acadia National Park and Schoodic Institute are jointly sponsoring a free public presentation by Professor Federico Niccolini at Moore Auditorium on the Schoodic Education and Research Center campus on October 6, 2015, at 7 pm. Professor Niccolini will speak on "Management and Challenges of Protected...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Billings, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. James Hayden McClelland, 22, of Billings...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: The following are remarks by Zachary T. Fardon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, delivered at the City Club of Chicago on Sept. 28, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who is handling the case, stated that the New York State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an online child pornography investigation in December 2013. During that case, they learned that child pornography had been uploaded to a Google cloud...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Bakersfield, California, Man Indicted for Racial Intimidation and Firearm Charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) offering support for their proposed rule on paying for biosimilar biological products (biosimilars)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Philip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General, today announced that AMERICAN ACCESS CARE HOLDINGS, LLC has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the Government in which it will pay $3,594,791 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel, sentenced Steven Patrick Bruce, age 32, of Oxon Hill, Maryland, today to seven years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin, being a felon in possession of a firearm and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: Musket Balls Tell the Tale of a Heroic Stand Concord, MA -Sept. 28, 2015 -On April 19, 1775, despite heavy casualties just hours before, Lexington's Captain John Parker made the courageous decision to rally his troops and pursue the British on their march back from Concord to Boston. More than 240...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, defendant Tania Maldonado-Suárez pled guilty before United States Magistrate Judge Marcos E. López to a one-count Information that charged, from on or about Oct. 26, 2005, continuing through on or about May 31, 2007, in the District of Puerto Rico, the defendant being an employee...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: “I thank the gentleman. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. -- Tony Huy Havens, 42, of Modesto, pleaded guilty today to mail fraud and wire fraud in two mortgage fraud schemes, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: On Sept. 15, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) signed agreements with two international regulatory partners, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and Transport Canada (TCCA) that allow the authorities to rely on each other’s regulatory systems. The agreements will eliminate duplicate processes, get safety enhancing equipment installed on aircraft more quickly, and save time and money for both industry and the regulatory authorities involved.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - In the largest settlement of its kind involving allegations of drug diversion at a hospital, Massachusetts General (MGH) has agreed to pay the United States $2.3 million to resolve allegations that lax controls enabled MGH employees to divert controlled substances for personal use. In conjunction with this record monetary settlement, MGH has agreed to implement a comprehensive corrective action plan to prevent, identify, and address future diversions.
