News from December 2015
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of ongoing bicameral collaboration to protect Medicaid services for the most vulnerable, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of ongoing bicameral collaboration to protect Medicaid services for the most vulnerable, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today sent a letter to Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of the Centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - Two leaders of a lucrative methamphetamine distribution ring in West Tennessee have been collectively sentenced to more than 270 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentencings today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Natchez Trace Parkway staff members recently partnered with three Tupelo High School (THS) students on a senior culmination project designed to raise awareness of the consequences of distracted driving. Senior culmination project group members, Dilan Patel, Ricardo Ungo, and Caroline Harris, mentored by Park Ranger Melanie Sander, created a public service announcement (PSA) which encourages motorists to avoid texting while driving.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A commercial firefighter who resides in Huntington Beach has been sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for attempting to produce child pornography by sending money to the Philippines to purchase a camera to take sexually explicit photos of a 13-year-old girl and her friend.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report that found under President Obama’s health law, the labor force is projected to be without about two million full-time-equivalent workers in 2025 than it would be otherwise...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CONCORD - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Rafael Humberto Celaya Valenzuela, 40 of Hermosillo, Mexico was sentenced today to 17 years in federal prison after being convicted by a jury of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Riverhead, N.Y. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight field hearing in Riverhead, NY on public access to Atlantic fisheries and the impact and implementation of federal decision-making on the commercial and recreational fishing industry and local economies. The panel received testimony from fisheries stakeholders and a representative from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Protecting schools and their associated high-occupancy buildings from the most violent tornadoes is the goal of the first approved building code changes based on recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) technical investigation into the impacts of the deadly tornado that struck Joplin, Mo., on May 22, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced today that Milwaukee resident Grover Ferguson (age:18) was sentenced to 50 years of imprisonment, to be followed by 5 years of supervised release, for committing a carjacking on April 21, 2015, during which he shot the vehicle’s owner.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: (FORT WORTH, - Texas - Two defendants who pleaded guilty in August to felony offenses stemming from their respective roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy were sentenced this morning, by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor, to lengthy federal prison sentences, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh today announced that the District of Colorado, working on its own and with other U.S. Attorney’s Offices and components of the Department of Justice collected $539,446,849.97. These collections come from key cases such as those against DaVita, Inc., MetLife, First RF Corporation and others. Of this amount, $15,844.38 was collected in criminal actions and $539,431,005.59 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that his office has collected $11,117,355.04 in the last year, which represents more than twice the office’s annual direct budget. Of this amount, $3,223,758.54 was collected in criminal actions, $1,917,340.47 was collected in civil actions, and $5,976,236.03 was collected in asset forfeiture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Elkhart man pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: SAIPAN, CNMI - ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that on Friday, December 4, 2015, the NMI U.S. District Court Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona sentenced Randy A. Igisomar, age 23, to 46 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for perjury. Igisomar pleaded guilty on Nov. 26, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Lake Worth, Florida, woman was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for her role in a $3 million conspiracy to scam customers by offering phony consulting services to owners of timeshares through the New Jersey-based Vacation Ownership Group LLC, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 7, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A mother and son who sold heroin from their home in Culloden, West Virginia, in 2014 and 2015 entered guilty pleas today in federal court in Huntington to separate drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Toni Lynn Cremeans, 41, pleaded guilty to distributing heroin, and her son, Shawn Paul Cremeans, 24, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin.
