News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 16, 2016, by U.S. District Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A local resident has been sentenced in federal court to two years’ probation with special conditions on his conviction of transporting poultry without inspection, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Tonight, Dr. Milton Love, a research biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Marine Science Institute, will discuss the wide range of behaviors that mating fish exhibit during the February From Shore to Sea lecture.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire and bank fraud conspiracy and bank fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has made a new funding opportunity available for water entities in the Western United States to conduct water reclamation research under the Title XVI Water Reclamation and Reuse Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Calvin Johnson, 45, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged by Information, filed yesterday, with one count of failing to appear as required by conditions of release, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced the appointment of 15 members and a special agency liaison to the Maritime Advisory Committee for Occupational Safety and Health.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Potomac, Md. - OnSunday, Feb. 21, 2016, from1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m., the day before George Washington’s 284th birthday, the Great Falls Tavern will again ring with happy voices and the swish of waltzing hoop skirts, as the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park hosts Dr. Larry Keener...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced that a Buncombe County man convicted of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon was sentenced today in Asheville by U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger. Jeremy Scott Powell, 31, of Leicester, N.C. was ordered to serve 63 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release upon completion of the prison term.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), who described in detail a year ago changes required in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations to gain his support and broad bipartisan support, today released a statement in opposition to TPP - a trade agreement between the United States and 11 other countries in the Pacific Rim region that accounts for 40 percent of the world’s GDP.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that KEITH HAESSLY, 46, of East Hampton, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to using a computer to persuade minors to engage in unlawful sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: VimpelCom Limited and Unitel LLC Enter into Global Foreign Bribery Resolution of More Than $795 Million; United States Seeks $850 Million Forfeiture in Corrupt Proceeds of Bribery Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work to strengthen Medicaid for the nation’s most vulnerable, Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today pressed Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the conviction of CAMERON BUTLER, age 33, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who pled guilty on Tuesday before U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to three counts of receiving stolen government funds, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s plan to advance America’s leadership in clean energy innovation, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced that an agreement has been reached to support possible siting of an innovative small modular reactor (SMR) project within DOE’s Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its work to strengthen Medicaid for the nation’s most vulnerable, Energy and Commerce Committee Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) today pressed Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Two Former Arkansas Officials Sentenced for Bribery Scheme.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - The circus tent that collapsed in Lancaster during a sudden downdraft of air called a "micro-burst" on Aug. 3, 2015, was not properly erected and the circus operator, Walker International Events, did not follow repeated National Weather Service storm warnings, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Last week, Tom Brokaw joined Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette on the #Path2Cures. Brokaw was honored alongside Upton and DeGette by the Tracy’s Kids organization, which has helped countless young cancer patients and their families. As Upton and DeGette commented, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Jeremy J. Bohlman, 37, who lived on the Coeur d’Alene Indian Reservation, was arrested yesterday on charges of aggravated sexual assault, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Bohlman was indicted by a federal grand jury on Dec. 15, 2015.
