News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Tennessee couple have been indicted for fraudulently obtaining $86,511 in veterans’ unemployment compensation benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that an investigation into a recent drug overdose death of a man in Monroe and a non-fatal overdose of a man...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today provided an update on the progress made by the bipartisan encryption working group...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Texas. Wednesday, June 22, 2016. HOUSTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jonathan Santana, age 35, of Shippensburg man was sentenced today to 14 years imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary King: We write today to urge you to better protect our military and veteran students and their hard-earned educational benefits by strengthening the 90/10 rule. As we saw with the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, when schools over-rely on taxpayer dollars, efforts to hold those institutions...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Scientists estimate offsite link that Arctic permafrost, a thick layer of frozen soil that encircles the globe, contains two and a half times as much carbon as has been emitted since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. As the region warms, this carbon will be released from the permafrost’s icy grip.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Employer name: K-T Galvanizing Company Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Maurice L. Whyte, II, 23, Kasie A. Morgan, 24, Kionte K. Whatley, 19, Marilyn Whatley, 37, and Jolisha McDonald, 25, all of Columbus, Ohio, with transporting stolen goods, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will today release a report, which was required to be completed by a provision of law authored by U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), that will help fulfill the agency’s duty to identify sites throughout Alaska that were contaminated before they were conveyed to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Monroe man was sentenced Monday to 77 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: THURMONT, MD -After being closed to bouldering for several years, Catoctin Mountain Park will open bouldering access in all areas of the park.As the National Park Service celebrates its 100th anniversary, the park is pleased to allow the local climbing community a chance to discover one of the national parks in their own backyard.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Senior United States District Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr. has sentenced William Reid Penuel (38, Ponte Vedra Beach) to six months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzlement from a bankruptcy estate. While on supervised release, Penuel must serve six months of home detention, and participate in ongoing drug testing and treatment. He was also ordered to pay $151,239 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Culminating investigations by a host of state and federal law enforcement agencies, federal prosecutors have brought 13 criminal cases that charge a total of 22 defendants in health care fraud schemes. Several medical professionals were charged as part of the sweep, including five physicians...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Celebrate Independence Day and the Centennial of the National Park Service at Homestead National Monument of America on July 4, 2016, 7 p.m.at the Education Center. Join National Park Service Park Guide Nick Manes for a campfire program on the connection between the Declaration of Independence, the American...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: House Republicans today unveiled a plan to replace Obamacare. It is our vision for a Confident America in which every American has access to quality, affordable health care. This is the fifth plank of A Better Way, a bold agenda to tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: If you haven’t submitted comments yet to the second installment of the Quadrennial Energy Review, you only have a few days left to do so. The deadline for submitting comments is July 1, 2016 - less than two weeks away. The Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) process, which has involved robust engagement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Vernon Jones, 24, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, on or about April 12, 2016, in Philadelphia, Jones possessed a Beretta, Model BU9 Nano...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The recent heat wave in the Southwest has taken its toll on visitors to the popular Horseshoe Bend Overlook. Since Saturday, June 18, National Park Service dispatch has received nearly a dozen calls for help from heat stressed visitors hiking to the site, a figure which does not include the numerous calls responded to by Page Fire Department.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Beginning at 8 am on Thursday, June 23rd Grand Canyon National Park will implement mandatory Level 2 water conservation measures due to diminished water resources. At Level 2, mandatory measures require that all concessions operations switch to disposable dishes and utensils;alter...
