News from January 2017
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate health committee, and Senate Democrats took to the Senate floor tonight to speak out against Republican’s “harmful and reckless" attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act with no clear plan to replace it. In her speech, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Abington Memorial Hospital (AMH) has agreed to pay the United States $510,000 to resolve allegations that failures in AMH’s controls and practices enabled its employee to divert controlled substances for illegal, non-medical uses. In addition to this monetary settlement, AMH has implemented a program to prevent, identify, and address future diversions. The resolution was announced by Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Cedar City Field Office will soon be gathering and removing excess wild horses from within and outside the Sulphur Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) in western Utah.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -Grand Canyon National Park will join national park sites around the country in celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with free entrance to the park. Entrance fees will be waived for all visitors arriving to Grand Canyon National Park on Monday Jan. 16, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy today announced a of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR).
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Tonopah, Nev. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to begin gathering up to 135 wild horses from the Reveille Herd Management Area (HMA) and surrounding Reveille Allotment, located about 50 miles east of Tonopah in Nye County, Nevada. 80 wild horses will be removed from the HMA and transported...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Gerardo Solis-Rojas, of Mexico, was sentenced to ten months in federal prison after pleading guilty, on Nov. 21, 2016, to illegally re-entering the United States after having been previously deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on January 9, 2017, Christopher Calderon-Melendez, 31, of Essex Junction, Vermont, was sentenced to a prison sentence of time served. Calderon-Melendez had served approximately 7 months in jail awaiting disposition of his case. U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Calderon-Melendez serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Elvis Barban Chavez, 45, and Dairon Julio Jimenez Roja, 26, both of Texas, pleaded guilty to identity theft and conspiracy to commit credit card fraud. A third individual, Franciso Tamayo Noguera, is scheduled for trial in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - FBI agents in Texas today arrested the former controller for a Birmingham-based fitness center franchise on charges she defrauded that company and a subsequent retail store out of more than $100,000, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, visit a national park and see his childhood home, trace his footsteps at a civil rights site, or stand where he gave his most famous speech.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: St. Helens Lieutenant Graduates from the FBI National Academy.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: VERONA, N.J. - Acting on a complaint in June 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found employees of one of the area's largest general contractors working in an unprotected 10-foot deep excavation at a suburban New Jersey high school, in violation of federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Rockwall, Texas, man, Richard Deon Murrell, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 190 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2016 to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Please join Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta for an important general aviation announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Michael Andrew Davila, age 27, of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, today to 175 months in prison, followed by 25 years of supervised release, for transportation of a minor for prostitution. Judge Hazel also ordered that upon his release from...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, DANE THOMAS WILSON, 61, of Oklahoma City, was ordered by United States District Judge Timothy D. DeGuisti to pay a combined total of $525,006.71 in restitution to former clients of his law practice, to the Oklahoma Bar Association, and to the Internal Revenue Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Investigation leads to seizure of large quantities of drugs, over $120,000 in cash, and over 40 firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the fifth and final conviction in a series of federal prosecutions aimed at a drug trafficking ring which operated in the Gulf Coast states. On Friday, January 6, 2017, KENDALL LEWIS, age 27, of Lecanto, Florida, appeared before Chief U.S.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), announced the following staff hires for the committee's majority side for the 115th Congress.
