News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: In accordance with Federal law, which requires excess wild horses and burros in the West to be placed with caring private owners, the Bureau of Land Management today announced its 2016 adoption schedule for these special animals that evoke the history of the American West. The new adoption schedule can...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - David DiPaolo, age 33, of Bristow, Virginia, pleaded guilty today to voluntary manslaughter in connection with the death of a person in Carderock, a popular rock climbing area within the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Throughout 2016, the National Park Service (NPS) will be celebrating its 100th anniversary. The NPS was created in August of 1916 to care for our most precious public lands. Tumacácori will be celebrating with a variety of special programs throughout the year, including a Centennial Concert Series. The third of these concerts will take place inside the historic mission church on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 3:00 p.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 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 8, 2016
News Release: A Bahamian man was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra in West Palm Beach, following his second conviction for alien smuggling.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting more information about CMS’ recent focus on Medicaid coverage of housing-related services.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 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 8, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jennifer Vensel, 38, of Wheeling, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for cocaine trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: Chairman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today released the following statement on the status of their jointly authored energy bill:
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a markup this week to consider three bills that will protect consumers and small businesses. The subcommittee will convene on Wednesday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will travel to Phoenix in the coming months as part of her national Community Policing Tour. In this phase, the Attorney General will visit six jurisdictions around the country that have excelled in each of the six pillars discussed in the : (1) Building Trust...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The former CEO of USA Dry Van Logistics (USADV), a cross-border trucking company that services the maquiladora industry, has been ordered to federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Sergio Lagos, 46, pleaded guilty Jan. 20, 2015, to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six counts...
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded President Obama’s signing of the Electrify Africa Act of 2015 (S.2152) into law. The bipartisan legislation, which ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Abram Kyle O’Bannon, 31, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 14 years’ incarceration, to be followed by a 20 year term of supervised release. O’Bannon previously pleaded guilty to attempted sex trafficking of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston man caught smuggling oxycodone through the mail pleaded guilty today, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Kenneth Edward Campbell, 48, entered his guilty plea in federal court to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Earlier today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. handed down a lengthy prison term to a Charlotte man involved in a 2014 armed robbery and carjacking, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Cogburn ordered Davonte Antonio Smith, 24, of Charlotte to serve 121 months in prison and two years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - John Cal Howe II, 42, of Lakehead, pleaded guilty today to 23 misdemeanor counts in a scheme to obtain thousands of dollars in veterans’ benefits to which he was not entitled, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on a proposal to offer 18,349 acres in Garfield and Mesa counties in the Nov. 10, 2016 competitive oil and gas lease sale.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Charlotte-area tax return preparer was handed down a 27-month prison sentenced today for aiding or assisting in the filing of a false claim for tax refund, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Fitzroy E. Lawrence, 48, of Charlotte, was also ordered by U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn to serve 2 years under court supervision and to pay $2,635,641.00 as restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2016
News Release: HOT SPRINGS, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Matthew Barden and Kenneth Elser, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Susan Marie Sheets, age 42, of Hot Springs, was sentenced this week to 87 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Methamphetamine.
