News from September 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter yesterday to President Obama outlining concerns over the direction of the U.S.-China economic relationship and how China conducts its economic and trade policies. The letter was sent in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Dwayne Carter, 38, of Norfolk, was sentenced yesterday to 29 months in prison for conspiracy to engage in food stamp benefits fraud. Carter was ordered to pay $1,928,633.10 in restitution to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: In an effort to improve the reservation process for the Fruita Group Campsite, we will no longer be handling the reservation system at the park. Beginning with the 2016 camping season, please use the website www.recreation.gov to make your reservations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Former U.S. Army Specialist Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Taking Bribes While Deployed in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - A federal grand jury indicted Larry Dwayne Diggs, also known as "Montana," of Muskegon, Michigan for three drug and firearm related offenses. Specifically, the grand jury indicted Diggs for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition, Possessing a Controlled Substance...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO -A former employee of the Social Security Administration has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for cashing her deceased mother’s Social Security checks for nearly 30 years after her death.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - This Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time, come to one of the almost 5,000 collection sites around the nation to return all unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe and anonymous disposal. This is the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) 10th National Prescription...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Fritch, TX -Are you looking for a family fun-filled activity to be involved in with the children during the weekend? Lake Meredith National Recreation Area is the place to be and will again be hosting the annual Small-Fry Fishing Tournament, to be held this Saturday, Sept. 26, at the Stilling Basin...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: "Come join us as we celebrate Harvest Homecoming," says Shirley Torgerson, Executive Director of the Capitol Reef Natural History Association. Events October 3rd will be held at the Gifford House beginning at 9:00 a.m. and running through 6:00 p.m. There will be live music and cultural demonstrations...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Thanks to a newly updated standard for ambulance design based on research and development by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and two federal partners, emergency runs should soon be much safer for paramedics and other first responders.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge John E. Steele today sentenced George Borroto (23, Lehigh Acres) to four years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. He pleaded guilty on Feb. 25, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Installation Artist and Photographer selected as First Fort Union Monument Artists-in-Residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Heidi Wagler, age 50, from Wayland, Iowa, has been charged with one count of embezzlement by a bank officer. The charge is contained in an Information filed on Sept. 21, 2015, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lawrence A. Stewart, 48, of Wayne, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to two years of probation and fined $8,000 for theft of public money. He was also ordered to pay $53,852.72 in restitution to the Veterans Administration ("VA"), which he paid prior to sentencing. The defendant pled guilty on April 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of Edgewater Medical Center on Chicago’s North Side pleaded guilty today to a federal perjury charge stemming from his efforts to thwart attempts by the U.S. and a creditor to collect more than $188 million in civil judgments.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - “Why is retaliation so rampant within the federal government?" Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) asked in his opening remarks at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on improving accountability within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Chapel Hill and Durham, North Carolina, millionaire businessman was sentenced to prison yesterday for his involvement in a decades-long scheme to evade paying his federal income taxes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ripley Rand of the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Sen. Ron Wyden, ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, welcomed the U.S. Trade Representative’s (USTR) release of new summaries of negotiating objectives in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. These summaries were required under the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill Wyden co-authored, which became law earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Timothy S. Klimas, 27, of Bangor, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to using children to produce child pornography and to distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Defendants Targeted Victims for Their Newly Released Shoes.
