News from August 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s adoption of procedures for the upcoming incentive auction...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. Senate last evening approved by voice vote H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act. Committee member Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) authored the bipartisan bill in response to a water emergency last summer caused by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Robert J. Palermo, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to murder a witness, was sentenced to 135 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the bipartisan report issued by the Senate Finance Committee on its investigation of the IRS...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s adoption of procedures for the upcoming incentive auction...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has indicted RANDY ANNY (ANNY), age 51, and BARBARA FALGOUST ANNY (FALGOUST), age 51, both of Sorrento, Louisiana, with conspiracy and wire fraud in connection with a claim made to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. If convicted, each defendant faces incarceration, fines, restitution, and supervised release following imprisonment.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement today in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s adoption of procedures for the upcoming incentive auction...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park is hosting a brown-bag luncheon presentation by graduate student, Wesley Sarmento. The free presentation, “Mass Visitation and Mountain Goats: Ecology and Management of an Alpine Icon," is Wednesday, Aug. 12, from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. at the park’s community building in West Glacier.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England ;United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz; William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation in Boston; and John Smith, Director of the U.S. Treasury...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Richard Palmisano, 41, formerly of Central Falls, a career offender with a criminal history dating back more than twenty years, including convictions on drug trafficking, firearms and assault charges, was sentenced today to 150 months in federal prison for trafficking more than 90...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: The quality of care in nursing homes remains an issue of concern for the millions of people who reside in them, as well as their families. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has a long history of identifying concerns with the quality of care in the nursing home industry and...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: “Tropical storms and hurricanes can and do strike the United States, even in below-normal seasons and during El Niño events," said Gerry Bell, Ph.D., lead seasonal hurricane forecaster with NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. “Regardless of our call for below-normal storm activity, people along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts should remain prepared and vigilant, especially now that the peak months of the hurricane season have started."
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Plato, Mo., man who initially confessed during a pre-employment polygraph examination when he applied for employment at the Missouri State Highway Patrol was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Sessions Follow Recent Overdoses. WASHINGTON - Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent H. Cohen, Jr., the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and the District of Columbia Prevention Center for Wards 5 & 6 have scheduled a series of presentations at homeless shelters, starting tonight, that will...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Adding to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. Senate last evening approved by voice vote H.R. 212, the Drinking Water Protection Act. Committee member Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) authored the bipartisan bill in response to a water emergency last summer caused by...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment that charges Ralph David Hathaway, 46, of New Canton, Ill., with transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in illegal sexual activity and two counts of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct. Hathaway was previously charged in a criminal complaint filed in the Central District of Illinois. The complaint remained under seal pending Hathaway’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Bossier City man was sentenced to 10 months in prison for concealing his business assets during bankruptcy proceedings.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976. SAN DIEGO - Salt Lake City resident Beth Campbell pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that she fraudulently sold a prescription medical device to an undercover agent who she knew did not have a...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Criminal Group Distributed Heroin and Methamphetamine throughout Puget Sound Region.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (Lakeshore) continues to recover from the Sunday, August 2 windstorm. National Park Service crews from the Lakeshore, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and North Country National Scenic Trail are making progress clearing closed areas of hazardous trees. Power has...
