News from February 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s upgraded Environmental Studies Program Information System, hosted by NOAA’s Digital Coast, users can access data that can provide critical information for ocean plans and decisions that can help support a data-driven economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Russellville man for a string of bank robberies and attempted bank robberies in north Alabama this past fall, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: I’d like to thank the Chairman and Ranking Member for holding this hearing. To our distinguished FBI Director Comey, who has served this country through multiple Presidents and parties, I welcome you and thank you for your service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Jonathan E. Rosenberg, age 47, of West Orange, New Jersey, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit wire fraud in connection with a complex scheme to defraud investors and lenders by selling fraudulent investment portfolios of debts purportedly owed by hospital patients. Rosenberg has agreed to the entry of an order to pay restitution of $148,251,859, the amount of the investors’ losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Patrick Dort, 44, of Odessa, New York, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Feb. 25, 2016, for failure to register as a sex offender. Dort was arrested in Ithaca, New York. He received 22 months imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $200.00 fine and a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Thomas Hegarty, 21, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was sentenced in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire for bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice. The Court imposed a term of 39 months imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and full restitution to the victim bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a former employee of the Iberia Parish Sheriff’s Office pleaded guilty to his role in an inmate beating at the Iberia Parish Jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Logan County man was sentenced to three years and seven months in federal prison for distribution of oxymorphone, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. William Toler, Jr., 29, of Chapmanville, previously pleaded guilty to the federal drug crime in August 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, announced today Stephen K. Howard, 64, of Auburn, Alabama, was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months in prison for possessing with the intent to distribute a date rape drug, possessing methamphetamine, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Machinery Maintenance Rebuilders Inc., Houston, Texas
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: In advance of their first idea forum today, the chairs of the Task Force on Health Care Reform released their mission statement. This mission statement, laying out the goals of the task force, marks the next step in the development of a bold, pro-growth agenda that Republicans will present to the country in the coming months.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Employers name: S&S Roofing Inc., 2 Self Blvd., Carteret, New Jersey
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 3, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Wearable Devices."
By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting on March 1 to consider the Chairman’s Mark on Biotechnology Labeling Solutions. The previously scheduled business meeting was postponed due to changes in the Senate floor schedule.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: In Midland today, 55-year-old former federal fugitive Judy Kay Fryar was sentenced to five years in federal prison for her role in a wire fraud scheme that caused an estimated $140,000 loss to her employer and for obstructing justice announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., FBI Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division, United States Marshal Robert Almonte and Midland Police Chief Price Robinson.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016 by hiking the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail between Tumacácori National Historical Park and the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. On Saturday, April 9, from 9:30 to noon, hikers will be able to catch a free return shuttle back to their starting point after walking the 4 mile stretch of trail between the two parks.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its ongoing efforts to protect jobs and small businesses, the House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 4596, the Small Business Broadband Deployment Act. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Feb. 25, 2016, at 12:30 pm, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) will hold a press conference to introduce the Whistleblower Augmented Reward and Non-Retaliation Act of 2016 (WARN Act) to expand protections for those who put their careers at risk to blow the whistle on financial crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lufkin, Texas, man pleaded guilty to possessing cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Ohio woman was sentenced to four years in federal prison for three counts of passing counterfeit money, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Paula K. Green, 42, of Columbus, previously pleaded guilty to the federal counterfeiting crimes in October 2015.
