News published on Federal Newswire in April 2016

News from April 2016


News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted her efforts to expand and enhance sportsmen’s access by making public lands throughout Alaska and the nation “open unless closed" for fishing, hunting, recreational shooting, and other outdoor activities. Murkowski successfully included her Sportsmen’s Act and several other sportsmen’s provisions in the broad, bipartisan energy bill that passed the Senate on Wednesday by a vote of 85 to 12.


News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida -A new National Park Service report shows that nearly 3 million visitors to the National Park Service areas in south Florida spent $227 million last year in surrounding communities. That spending supported over 3,248 jobs in south Florida.


BLM Oil and Gas Lease Sale Nets $51,521 from Parcels in Oklahoma and Kansas

News Release: A Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted $51,521 in revenues including rental and administrative fees from the sale of 11 Federal leases in the States of Oklahoma and Kansas.BLM oil and gas leases are awarded for a period of 10 years and for as long thereafter as there...


Former Capital Blue Cross Employee And Four Others Charged With Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted five persons for health care fraud on April 20, 2016. The defendants named in the Indictment are Chireta E. Dantzler, age 34, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;...


News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will hold a public hearing on proposed amendments to the federal marketing order for raisins grown in California.


Ros-Lehtinen & Engel Introduce Bipartisan Resolution Honoring Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov & Calling for Investigation Into His Murder

News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, and Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, introduced H. Res. 697, which recognizes the legacy of murdered Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, encourages...


News Release: WASHINGTON - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2015 shows that the spending by more than 56 million visitors to national parks in the National Capital Region resulted in 16,917jobs and contributed almost $1.6 billion to the region’s economy.


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today spoke with Dr. Riyad Hijab, a senior representative of the Syrian opposition, as the peace talks in Geneva appear to collapse.


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man was sentenced today to three years and ten months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Derrick Lamb, 24, previously pleaded guilty in January 2016 to the federal gun crime.


News Release: HOUSTON - Two former owners of medical clinics in Houston have entered pleas of guilty to defrauding Medicare of $5.4 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.


Smash And Grab Robbers Sentenced To 20 Years In Prison

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Darrell Williams, 45, and David Story, 47, both of Philadelphia, were each sentenced today to 240 months in prison for their roles in a robbery conspiracy that targeted jewelry stores. In addition to the prison terms, U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence F. Stengel ordered five years of...


News Release: Filed False Claims for Reimbursement for Times when No Children were Present.


Private Exporters Report Sales Activity for Japan

Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 240,000 metric tons of corn for delivery to Japan. Of the total 180,000 metric tons for delivery during the 2015/2016 marketing year and 60,000 metric tons for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year.


Fugitive Remains in Federal Custody on Federal Charge Following Arrest by DSS and USMS

News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A fugitive wanted for various offenses, including most recently, making a false statement on a passport application, remains in federal custody following a detention hearing held yesterday in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.



News Release: Washington, D.C. - The bipartisan encryption working group - announced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) - today released a roadmap after meeting to discuss the path forward for the group.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today lauded the success of the Brownfields Program and stressed the importance of reauthorizing the law, which he authored with the late Congressman Paul Gillmor (R-OH) in 2001. President Bush signed the bill into law in January 2002. Pallone...


News Release: Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) recently highlighted the importance of the Cures effort. In a column in the Long Island Exchange, Zeldin underscores that H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, will “boost the field of personalized medicine, tailoring treatment to patients’ needs." This is a critical...


News Release: Third arrest on firearm charges as defendant served federal supervised release and state probation.


News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Stacy Miranda Phillips, 29, of Montague, pleaded guilty today to aggravated ID theft related to her participation in a bank fraud and identity theft scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.