News from April 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore. and Finance Democrats today sent a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch calling for leadership in bringing the Committee together to explore long-term funding solutions before time runs out. As part of this, Finance...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Demetrius Duncan, aka Whirley, 34, of Clarksville, Tennessee, was sentenced today to life in prison for his role in a large cocaine distribution conspiracy, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. There is no parole from federal sentences.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Alberto Garza-Gaona, 27, of Laredo, has been ordered to federal prison for receiving and sharing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. He pleaded guilty Sept. 5, 2014.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the committee’s ranking member, yesterday introduced a bipartisan resolution (S.Res.152) on the significance of the United States’ relationship with Japan as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington this week for a state visit where he will address a joint meeting of Congress on Wednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A civilian employee from the Department of Defense pleaded guilty today to one count of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a minor in a foreign place, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Twilla Marie St. Pierre, 37, of Worley, Idaho, was sentenced today to five years of probation for theft from a tribal organization, the Benawah Market, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge William Fremming Nielsen, from the Eastern District of Washington, also ordered...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: A new class of tiny chip-based thermometers being developed by PML's Sensor Science Division has the potential to revolutionize the way temperature is gauged.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement following President Obama’s intent to nominate U.S. Coast Guard Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger to be Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) under the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office entered into an agreement today with the Ware Police Department resolving a complaint that the Department lacked effective means to communicate with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Guest blog post by Willie May, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and Acting NIST Director.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted Anthony Lamont Payne, age 27, of District Heights, Maryland, today on charges of second degree murder arising from a fatal car crash. The indictment was returned yesterday and unsealed today upon his arrest.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: The Energy Department today announced $10.5 million in available funding to support the design and operation of innovative marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems through survivability and reliability-related testing of these systems. Such advances will help these devices harness even more sustainable energy from the enormous potential of the nation's oceans and rivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today as the result of a child pornography investigation that began in Australia. Joshua Ryan Clark, 27, of Springfield...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on reviewing the U.S. Grain Standards Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: A Sheffield Lake woman was sentenced to 12 ½ years in prison for producing and possessing images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston area attorney, who was disbarred in 2007 after practicing law for more than three decades, was sentenced to federal prison today for tax and bank fraud violations. His crimes arose in connection with recording fraudulent tax and bank releases on his seaside Marblehead home and his vacation home in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard. Both properties were later foreclosed on.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Michael Alan Carver, 29, of Collinsville, Illinois, entered a plea of guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in a scheme to obtain money and property through the use of unauthorized access devices and through the commission of identity theft, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee delivered remarks on the Senate floor on Workers’ Memorial Day to remember those who have lost their lives on the job, and called on Congress to improve safety protections...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Who: Bureau of Reclamation, and Washington State Department of Ecology, Office of Columbia River
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2015
News Release: Statement of Ranking Member Barbara Boxer
