News from February 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: “Welcome, Secretary Lew. And thank you for appearing today to discuss the Administration’s 2017 Budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment unsealed today charges a Chicago woman with giving a loaded.38 Special revolver to a minor, knowing that the minor would use it to commit a violent crime.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a major step as part of its Planning 2.0 initiative to modernize the agency’s planning process and increase public involvement in the management of 245 million acres of public lands the agency directs. The new approach will make future...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A bipartisan bill introduced by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Senators Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) aimed at combating the use of social media by terrorists was approved by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - Investigators with the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Seattle Police (SPD) arrested the owner and operator of a number of ‘clean and sober’ residential facilities on February 9, 2016, following an investigation that revealed the man was dealing illegal drugs. Timothy Rehberg, 50, of Everett...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: KING OF PRUSSIA, PA -Due to anticipated cold weather and high winds on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 the Second Pennsylvania Regiment living history portion of George Washington's Birthday Celebration at Valley Forge National Historical Park will be moved to March 5, 2016. This will not impact the events on Monday Feb. 15, which will still take place on that date.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on February 9, 2016, a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted a 55-year-old Dominican national who resides in Hazleton for distributing heroin on two occasions between December 2015 and January 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of Illegal Reentry after Deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today announced a major step as part of its Planning 2.0 initiative to modernize the agency's planning process and increase public involvement in the management of 245 million acres of public lands the agency directs. The new approach will make future land-use planning...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following opening statement during a hearing examining the Obama Administration’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget request for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Mark Caron, 52, of Burlington, with possessing a firearm after having been convicted of a felony offense, in this case six felony offenses. The indictment charges that three of the defendant’s six prior felony offenses were violations of state abuse prevention orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced the alleged long-time leader of the Grape Street Crips will appear in court today on charges linking him to four murders, three attempted murders, and numerous other crimes as part of a racketeering conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Pawankumar Jain, 63, a physician whose license has been revoked, entered a guilty plea this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to unlawfully dispensing controlled substances and health care fraud. The guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division, and Special Agent in Charge Terry Wade of the FBI’s Albuquerque Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: “I commend the Chairman for bringing H.R. 759 before the Committee today. It is critical, as part of the Committee’s efforts to reform our criminal justice system, that we take action to improve our federal prisons, and I am pleased that today we will consider a bipartisan, substitute amendment to this bill which will establish a better way of operating our prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Gunsmoke Gun Shop Owner and Former Discovery Channel Star Indicted and Arrested for Conspiracy, Dealing in Firearms without a License and Tax Related Charges.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management announces new appointments or reappointments of members to Nevada's three citizen-based Resource Advisory Councils (RACs), which advise the agency on public land management issues. The RACs are composed of members with diverse interests and backgrounds."I want to welcome...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia -The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking information in the investigation of a recent break in and robbery of the historic Baptist "black church" in Quinnimont, a small riverside community along State Route 41 inside New River Gorge National River. On Sunday, February 7, NPS...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Cortese has been convicted of enticement of a minor and is awaiting sentencing. Cortese used the internet and a smart phone to persuade a 12 year old minor to engage in sexually explicit activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: “Our efforts to root out public corruption continue with this second conviction of a postal employee in as many weeks," said U.S. Attorney Hochul. “We are not going to allow postal routes to become narcotics delivery services.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today announced that Morgan Stanley will pay a $2.6 billion penalty to resolve claims related to Morgan Stanley’s marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). This settlement constitutes the largest component of the set of resolutions...
