News from December 2015
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued examining Obamacare’s state insurance marketplaces. The hearing was Part II of a two-part series - Part I looked at the individual state marketplaces, Part II examined the role being played by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANDY SOSA - the former leader of the “Trinitarios," a violent street and prison gang composed primarily of individuals of Dominican descent - was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a hearing on Opioid Abuse in America: Facing the Epidemic and Examining Solutions. In her remarks, Murray explained that far too many families in Washington...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: LIMA, Peru - An international law enforcement operation culminated Saturday with the arrests of six individuals involved in sex trafficking and the rescue of 36 sex trafficking victims, including 11 minors.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Statement of Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) on the release today of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that examined the effects of past budget uncertainty on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA):
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at the Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Subcommittee hearing on drug resistant tuberculosis, and U.S. efforts to fight this global health crisis...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Johnie Wayne Roth, age 77, of Aurora, was arrested by Special Agents with the Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of the Inspector General on charges of assaulting, impeding or interfering with an employee of the United States in performance of official duties and use of a deadly or dangerous weapon...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man, who previously worked as a Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) clerk, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for conspiring to produce false RMV identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Anthony R. Angelo, 69, of Philadelphia PA was charged today by Information with wire fraud and bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today welcomed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s enhancements to the 5-Star Crash Safety Ratings System.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Neosho, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for illegally possessing several firearms, including a machine gun.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Gary Delima, 26, and Sharif Cargo, 26, both of Brooklyn, New York, with Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance, Resulting in Death. An additional co-conspirator, Tyson Williams, 31, of Brooklyn and Vermont, was charged with conspiring with Delima, Cargo, and others to distribute at least 28 grams of cocaine base.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - U.S. Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today that the District of the Virgin Islands collected $11,466,944.35 in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2015. Of this amount, $11,242,164.77 was collected in criminal cases and $224,779.58 was collected in civil cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, handled the case, stated that the New York State Police and Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an online child pornography investigation in December 2013. During that case, they learned that child pornography had been uploaded to a Google cloud drive...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today continued examining Obamacare’s state insurance marketplaces. The hearing was Part II of a two-part series - Part I looked at the individual state marketplaces, Part II examined the role being played by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Harkers Island, NC -Cape Lookout National Seashore is scheduled to open Great Island and Long Point Cabin Camps on Wednesday, March 16, 2016, and operate them through the night of Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016. Visitors can start making reservations on January 6, 2016 at 10 a.m. (EST). The National Park Service will continue utilizing recreation.gov for reservations this season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Acting U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch announced today that the Northern District of California collected $284,894,493 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2015. Of this amount $255,375,956 was collected in criminal actions and $29,518,537 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: For Further Information, Contact: Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney Blair Perez (619) 546-7963.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - U.S. Attorney David Capp announced today that the United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Indiana collected nearly $11M in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015. This money, U.S. Attorney Capp explained, is returned to the United States Treasury and is substantially...
By State Newswire | Dec 8, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed the Taiwan Naval Support Act (H.R. 4154). This bipartisan bill presses the Obama administration to submit a timeframe for the transfer of decommissioned naval vessels to Taiwan - vessels that were provided by legislation sponsored by Chairman Royce last year.
