News from December 2015
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a year-end spending package that included a number of Energy and Commerce Committee legislative priorities. Among the committee efforts included in the bill are an increase in NIH and FDA funding by $2 billion, lifting the 40-year-old ban on oil exports, permanently reauthorizing the World Trade Center Health Fund for 9/11 first responders, and several public health initiatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: OAKLAND - David Tung and Concord Farms, Inc. pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and wire fraud, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Ryan Spradlin.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce Senate passage of mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) repeal for beef and pork in the year-end funding bill. The bill is headed to the President to be signed into law.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today hailed the passage of legislation that would lift the 40-year-old ban on domestic crude oil exports. Congress’ action is the culmination of Murkowski’s efforts to overturn the ban over the past two years.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a year-end spending package that included a number of Energy and Commerce Committee legislative priorities. Among the committee efforts included in the bill are an increase in NIH and FDA funding by $2 billion, lifting the 40-year-old ban on oil exports, permanently reauthorizing the World Trade Center Health Fund for 9/11 first responders, and several public health initiatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Senate today unanimously approved H.R. 1321, the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced earlier this year by Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017. H.R. 1321 passed the House on December 7. The bill now heads to President Obama for his signature.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: KEYSTONE, SD: "Activity 99" is a list of 2 - 4 activities, places, events or fun things to do or items to find in several locations around the Black Hills, a scavenger hunt within our local parks, communities, museums, and visitor centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Thomas Daniel Williams, 44, of Orange Beach, Alabama was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kristi K. DuBose to 6 months imprisonment followed by 6 months home confinement for conspiring to distribute steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement after the White House announced the commutation of the sentences of 95 individuals, including three in Michigan, and the pardoning of two individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Kinmonte Markell Brown, 28, and Dennis Wells, 24, of Greenville, North Carolina, were sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today for trafficking more than a dozen firearms from North Carolina into Providence between November 2014 and January 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former special agent with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) pleaded guilty this afternoon to accepting thousands of dollars in bribes from a man who had been accused of trafficking a woman into the United States to be a sex slave.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 29-year-old resident of San Juan has been ordered to federal prison for nearly 20 years following his conviction of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Ruben James Rios pleaded guilty Sept. 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DOMINIEL TRINETTE JONES, age 26, of New Orleans, was charged today in a five-count Indictment for Conspiracy to Steal Federal Funds, Theft of Federal Funds, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Randy Bragg, 45, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire on federal weapon possession charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. The Court imposed a term of nine months’ imprisonment, to be served consecutive to Bragg’s current prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: The former president of the Toledo Metro Federal Credit Union was charged in federal court related to using his corporate credit card for personal gain of more than $233,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the indictment of COLIN ALEXANDER CHISHOLM, 64, for stealing more than $2 million from investors by lying to them about an investment in a purported television network startup. CHISHOLM was indicted on seven counts of wire fraud and six counts of mail fraud. The defendant is expected to make an initial appearance today before Magistrate Judge Becky Thorson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to the Comptroller General at the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) asking the office to examine some issues about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) activities in foreign drug inspections and foreign offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Greg Ramsey, age 54, of Baltimore, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, use of a fire to commit a federal felony, malicious destruction of property by fire, attempted witness tampering, and related gun charges. Ramsey and his niece, Tyesha Towanda Roberts, age 37, also of Baltimore, are charged with attempting to obstruct a federal investigation. The indictment was returned late on Dec. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced today that Phillip Binder, 43, of Woodside, New York, was sentenced to twenty years in federal prison after pleading guilty to producing and transporting child pornography. Upon his release from prison he will be supervised by United States Probation for a period of ten years.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 144 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization that distributed heroin in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
