News from December 2015
By DOL Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - RCL Wiring LP, which operates as Idaho & Sedalia Transportation Company, harassed and terminated a signal shop technician in retaliation for reporting a work-related injury in violation of the Federal Railroad Safety Act, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: James Burke Charged With Assaulting Smithtown Man in Custody in 2012 and Conspiring to Cover-up the Assault and Obstruct a Federal Civil Rights Investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), introduced the Federal Asset Sale and Transfer Act Tuesday to reduce the federal government’s inventory of unneeded real properties and the cost of maintaining them. Johnson said this following committee passage on Wednesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today, that Terry L. Stinnett, 68, of Marion, Illinois, pled guilty in federal court on December 8, 2015, to charges that he engaged in a scheme to steal from a health care program. Sentencing has been set for March 15, 2016. Stinnett will face up to 10 years in prison, a fine of up to $250,000, and up to 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Drove women from Indiana to Louisville to perform commercial sex acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - William G. Green, 49, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution to the IRS for assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Andrew Slavitt.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: No Additional Charges to Be Filed in Probe Involving 2010 Mayoral Election and Other Local and Federal Elections.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - During the Committee’s oversight hearing on the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) Role in the EPA’s Animas Spill, Committee members raised concerns about the DOI’s response to the spill, the lack of transparency and objectivity and the narrow scope of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) report. Secretary Sally Jewell’s testimony four months after the spill raised several concerns, including.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: ABILENE, Texas - Paul Joseph Koestle, 33, of Abilene, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Chief U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to serve a total of 50 years in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2015 to two felony child pornography offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: All 34 individuals charged and convicted in this investigation have now been sentenced to federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings and Senator Ben Cardin (both D-MD) introduced the Witness Security and Protection Grant Program Act of 2015, legislation that directs the U.S. Attorney General to award competitive grants to state and local governments to establish and maintain short-term witness protection programs in cases involving homicides, violent felonies, serious drug offenses, gang related crimes or organized crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Federal sentence will run consecutive to 306-month state sentence for second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JACOBI BOYD, age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the “Young Melph Mafia" or “YMM."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: Former U.S. State Department Employee Pleads Guilty to Extensive Computer Hacking, Cyberstalking and "Sextortion" Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - An Aurora man pleaded guilty today to a federal charge that he conspired to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization in the Middle East.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced that U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and the President of the World Bank Group Dr. Jim Yong Kim will serve as keynote speakers for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a legislative hearing entitled, “Examining Legislation to Improve Health Care and Treatment." The subcommittee considered six bipartisan bills to address shortcomings in current law and work to reauthorize an important nursing training program.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Andrew Slavitt.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) sent a letter to the Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Andrew Slavitt.
