News from January 2016
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: The Southern Ute Indian Tribe has achieved a major milestone toward developing a roughly 1-megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) system that will generate energy equivalent to a 15% offset of the total energy usage at about 10 tribally owned buildings on the Southern Ute Indian Reservation in Ignacio, Colorado.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Resource Advisory Council will meet Feb. 3-5, in Rock Springs, Wyoming.The meeting is open to the public and will take place at the Rock Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, beginning at 1 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 3, and concluding by noon, Friday...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: Washington - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) today applauded the House’s passage of their bill to improve the criminal justice system in the District of Columbia.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of the Interior today released a proposed framework for adaptively managing Glen Canyon Dam over the next 20 years with the goal of creating certainty and predictability for power and water users while protecting environmental and cultural resources in Grand Canyon National Park and the Colorado River ecosystem. The draft environmental impact statement (EIS) is available to the public for review and comment for 90 days.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following testimony in opposition to the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act (H.R. 3662 ) before the House Committee on Rules...
By State Newswire | Jan 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the announcement by the Mexican government of plans to extradite Chapo Guzman to the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2016
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction of KEVIN LOWE, the owner of “Astramed," a purported medical clinic with multiple locations in the Bronx, New York, and from which more than five million tablets of the prescription...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 9, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Today, on National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, I would like to thank all law enforcement officers serving our communities. From the frontline officers across the Department of Homeland Security, to the federal, state and local officers we work with every day, your important efforts go unnoticed far too often.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2016
News Release: The El Portal Road (continuation of Highway 140) in Yosemite National Park will re-open at 6:00 p.m. today to all vehicular traffic. The road has been closed since Thursday morning due to a rockfall that blocked access to Yosemite Valley via this popular route.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: After 12 weeks of testing, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) unveiled lessons learned from its Chicago Long-Term Evolution (LTE) pilot that was conducted with first responders. In conjunction with the Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communication ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Today I announce the schedule for the final phase of implementation of the REAL ID Act. Bottom line up front: Effective Jan. 22, 2018, air travelers with a driver’s license or identification card issued by a state that does not meet the ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 As I said publicly when asked in Mexico last year, I was confident that the Government of Mexico would apprehend the fugitive drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera. I commend President Peña Nieto, Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, the Mexican ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: New Economic Opportunities to be Created for Businesses and Residents BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 8, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded $46 million in assistance to the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation (VEIC) to support energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements in rural areas across the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: A former U.S. Department of Defense contracting official was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in a bribery scheme involving U.S. government contracts in Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: Joseph Furando, 50, of Montvale, New Jersey, was sentenced yesterday in Indianapolis, Indiana, to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release and to pay more than $56 million in restitution for his role in an elaborate scheme to defraud biodiesel buyers and United States taxpayers by fraudulently ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: The president of a Miami-based transportation company was convicted today for his role in a health care fraud scheme involving three mental health centers based in Miami that resulted in the submission of approximately $70 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: Since the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) last February, the U.S. government has focused on strengthening our effort to prevent extremists from radicalizing and mobilizing recruits, especially here at home. Advancing this effort means working as effectively as possible across ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: The former director of Baseball Development for the St. Louis Cardinals made an initial appearance in Houston federal court today on charges of accessing the Houston Astros’ computers without authorization, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas and Special Agent in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: Dr. David G. Bostwick has agreed to pay the United States up to $3.75 million to resolve alleged violations of the False Claims Act for billing Medicare and Medicaid for medically unnecessary cancer detection tests and offering incentives to physicians to obtain Medicare and Medicaid business, the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2016
News Release: Minh Quang Pham, aka Amin, 33, pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of New York to terrorism charges based on Pham’s efforts in support of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Pham was arrested in the United Kingdom on June 29, 2012, and was ...
