News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama today requested a Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 budget for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that further strengthens the Administration’s commitment to restoring and conserving the Nation’s sage-steppe ecosystem, supports the safe and effective management of the agency’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Abigail Lee Kemp, age 24, of Smyrna, Georgia, was charged in a 2-count indictment. Abigail Lee Kemp was charged with robbing the Jared Vault jewelry store in Bluffton, SC, a violation of Title 18, U. S. C. §1951 as...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be hosting the 16th annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 30, 2016. The festival celebrates the Appalachian way of life that has been such a huge part of the history of the Big South Fork area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: A Miami physician pleaded guilty today for his role in a Medicare fraud scheme that caused more than $20 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that a New Hampshire drywall contractor was sentenced today to federal prison for an under-the-table payroll scheme that cost the U.S. Treasury more than $750,000. Senior United States District Judge Steven A. McAuliffe sentenced Cruz E. Galvan, age 39, of Manchester, New Hampshire, to eighteen months in federal prison and ordered him to pay restitution to the U.S. Treasury.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement at a Committee markup of Views and Estimates on the Fiscal Year 2017 Federal Budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Haltom City, Texas, man, Nathan Bryant Cooper, 36, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 120 months in federal prison terms for his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Yesterday, Miguel Bonilla, 36, of Dallas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 360 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2015 to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Quantal Blake, age 29, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced to life in prison yesterday by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp. Blake was convicted by a federal jury on May 28, 2015, of two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former resident of Colorado was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for her involvement in a conspiracy to illegally transfer firearms from Colorado to a felon in New Jersey, United States Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Travis Sentall Robinson, a/k/a “Triggaplay," a/k/a “Trigga," of Lawrenceville, Georgia, was convicted last week following a three-week jury trial of multiple sex-trafficking charges, including conspiracy to commit and commission of sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on President Obama’s budget proposals for the Department of Treasury for fiscal year 2017 on Thursday, February 11th at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing TOMORROW at 10 a.m. entitled, “From Iraq and Syria to Libya and Beyond: The Evolving ISIL Threat.".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Richard Allen Buckner, 23, of Farmington, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 24 months in federal prison for his bank robbery conviction. Buckner will be on supervised release for three years following his incarceration.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today requested the Health and Human Services Inspector General review the degree to which Medicaid is currently paying for deceased beneficiaries or paying deceased providers/suppliers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 25-year-old Shenandoah resident connected to a large-scale heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County during 2012 through September 2015, pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, in May, 2014, a 15 year old female (victim 1) reported to Lancaster Police that three or four years earlier when she was 12 or 13 years old, she was contacted on the social media site “Kik" by an...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth, Texas, woman, Robie Lynn Sims, 41, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 18 months in federal prison for harboring a fugitive, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice and New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph Foster announced today that both the United States Attorney's Office and the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office will staff voting inquiry and complaint lines at their respective offices throughout the day and evening on Primary Day, February 9, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Hatch, Upton & Pitts Request Explanation for CMS’ Medicaid Coverage of Housing-Related Services - Given Current Challenges with Medicaid Program, Services Could be Especially Vulnerable to Abuse WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman...
