News from April 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: In Midland this morning, Senior United States District Judge Robert A. Junell sentenced 47-year-old Kyle Unterbrink to 15 years in federal prison for advertising online to produce, buy, sell or trade child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, El Paso Division.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Vista Window Company LLC.

By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its work to build the Architecture of Abundance with a review of discussion drafts to modernize the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and to improve energy efficiency. The legislative concepts discussed today will be included in the committee’s bipartisan comprehensive energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, woman convicted of Concealing Person from Arrest was sentenced on April 28, 2015, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: A 12-count federal indictment was filed charging a former Youngstown man with fraud related to the purchase of a dozen homes in Mahoning County, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Steven D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: “The FCC must remain as agile as the industries it oversees," said Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ). “The Democratic members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee have come together and put together a smart, commonsense plan to keep the FCC fast, efficient, and transparent. Our plan makes certain that the FCC stays a model of effective government."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Kevin Lamont Loney, age 38, of Sumter County, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for possession with the intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, 500 grams or more...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai‘i - Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park is pleased to announce the availability of its draft general management plan, wilderness study, and environmental impact statement (GMP/WS/EIS).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed the president’s signature on S. 535, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: “The FCC must remain as agile as the industries it oversees," said Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ). “The Democratic members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee have come together and put together a smart, commonsense plan to keep the FCC fast, efficient, and transparent. Our plan makes certain that the FCC stays a model of effective government."

By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Congressman Robert C. “Bobby" Scott (D-VA) introduced the Raise the Wage Act, legislation that would increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2020. The Raise the Wage Act would also index the federal minimum wage to the median wage, and gradually eliminate the subminimum tipped wage. The legislation would raise wages for nearly 38 million American workers.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: “The FCC must remain as agile as the industries it oversees," said Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ). “The Democratic members of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee have come together and put together a smart, commonsense plan to keep the FCC fast, efficient, and transparent. Our plan makes certain that the FCC stays a model of effective government."

By EPA Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed a number of ways to increase transparency at the Federal Communications Commission and make their work more accessible to the American people. Subcommittee members from both sides...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today began consideration of legislation to improve how Americans use energy as part of her work to get the first broad energy bill signed into law in nearly a decade. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee received testimony on 22 energy efficiency proposals that address a wide range of issues, including building retrofits, federal energy management, appliance efficiency, workforce development, and efficiency grants.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WELLINGTON, Ohio - The life of a 23-year-old man working at a metal stamping company was changed forever when three fingers on his right hand were crushed in a power press in January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: Sacramento, Calif. - Vincent J. Doyle, 56, formerly of Elk Grove, California, was sentenced on Wednesday by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 51 months in prison for mail fraud arising out of his embezzlement from his former employer of more than $2.5 million. Doyle was also ordered to pay over $2.5 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury today indicted an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Talladega for assaulting a correctional officer at the prison in May 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that ALBERT PORTUSACH MENDIOLA, JR., age 32, of Tamuning, was sentenced on April 28, 2015, before Senior Judge Alex R. Munson, in the District Court of Guam, to 46 months imprisonment, three years supervised release and 50 hours community service.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding former Greenhill & Company employee Lawrence S. Chu’s ongoing stint as a volunteer at the commission. Greenhill & Company, an investment banking firm, was awarded...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 30, 2015
News Release: 200 Investors Lost $11 Million In The Rockford Group Investment Scheme.