News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: “Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 348, the ‘Responsibly and Professionally Invigorating Development Act of 2015’ or so-called RAPID Act.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service and the United States Park Police in cooperation with local, state and federal law enforcement, public safety and transportation agencies, and event organizers have developed security, logistics and access plans for The Trust for the National Mall’s permittedLandmarkMusic Festival. The concert will take place on Saturday and Sunday, September 26-27 from12 p.m. -10 p.m.in West Potomac Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Seven individuals from Ohio and West Virginia have been charged in federal court in connection with a drug trafficking operation that caused large quantities of heroin to be transported from Chicago to the Ohio Valley, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld of the Northern District of West Virginia and United States Attorney Carter M. Stewart of the Southern District of Ohio announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Gregory A. Vaughn (58, Seminole County) has pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor, and production and receipt of child pornography. He faces 10 years, up to life, in prison, for the enticement charge; a minimum mandatory penalty...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit are planning to ignite a 175-acre prescribed fire this fall within the Town of Palisade Watershed on the slopes of the Grand Mesa.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that VIRGINIA BROWN, age 22, of New Orleans, was charged today in a one-count Bill of Information with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva and Democratic members of the House Natural Resources Committee released the following statements today on Pope Francis' message of a cleaner environment and more sustainable use of resources to benefit humanity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that James Phillips, 31, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States, was sentenced to 30 months probation by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Seattle- Jimi Hightower, a 2015 graduate of University of Washington, will help prepare Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - Seattle for the National Park Service's 100th anniversary in 2016. She is one of 70 energetic Centennial Volunteer Ambassador interns recently selected to spend the next year connecting local communities to parks through volunteer service opportunities.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Sterling Technologies Inc., 10047 Keystone Drive, Lake City, PA
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the conviction of SEAN GERALD PENONCELLO, 41, for the production of child pornography involving two minor victims. On June 9, 2015, PENONCELLO was charged by superseding indictment with two counts of producing child pornography and one count of possessing child pornography. Following a three-day trial before Judge Patrick J. Schiltz, a jury found PENONCELLO guilty of all counts. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Law enforcement and community leaders from across the Northern District of West Virginia will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back event scheduled for Saturday, September 26 2015, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury today indicted Lawrence Coleman, age 46, of Reisterstown, Maryland, on charges arising from a scheme to defraud a customer by submitting false invoices, overbilling more than $515,000.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a senior member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, today made the following statement about Pope Francis’s address to a joint meeting of Congress...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: The importance of Cape Cod National Seashore beaches to nesting piping plovers and least terns is well known to most Cape residents and visitors.However, the importance of Outer Cape beaches to common, least, and roseate terns and other shorebirds before and during migration may be less widely appreciated.
By State Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today applauded the unanimous passage by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of their bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) for four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: Nine people were charged in a superseding indictment for their roles in a conspiracy to ship marijuana from California to Ohio, then launder the drug proceeds and send the money back to California, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Three persons were arrested today on felony charges contained in a 42-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Sacramento on Sept. 10, 2015, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal judge Thursday resentenced a former Haysville physician and his wife without changing the amount of time they must spend in prison for illegally distributing prescription pain killers to patients who overdosed on them, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 24, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Thomas Anthony George, 65, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to two counts of using a firearm during the commission of armed bank robberies.
