News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Two former Boston-area hedge fund managers were sentenced on Dec. 14, 2015, for conspiring to mislead investors into investing more than $500 million in their fraudulent hedge fund business.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives is poised to pass legislation for the third time this year to lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. The measure is included in this year’s budget deal that will be considered by the House and Senate later this week. Lifting the ban has been a priority...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Press Conference Dec. 17, 2015 - 4 PM - Syracuse U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: PRINCETON, W.Va. - Standing outside the Princeton Detachment of the West Virginia State Police today, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, joined by West Virginia State Police Major Tim Bradley, and Mercer County Commissioner and Community Connections Executive Director Greg Puckett, announced a new partnership to expand access to naloxone.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce and Small Business Committee leaders today expressed disappointment following the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to forgo permanent protection of small businesses from heightened disclosure requirements included in the commission’s open Internet order.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the inclusion of permanent reauthorization of the World Trade Center Health Fund in the year-end budget deal. The House of Representatives will vote later this week on the bill to fund government operations. Upton and the Energy and Commerce Committee worked toward the deal to permanently extend the important program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Dec. 11, 2015, Jared L. Seats, 25, Belleville, IL, was sentenced for Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Previously Convicted Felon. Seats received 92 months in federal prison, to be followed...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: The FAA will be modifying the Washington Special Flight Rules Area (SFRA) and Washington Metropolitan Flight Restriction Zone (FRZ) with additional flight restrictions during the State of the Union Address in Washington, DC, on Jan. 12, 2016.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at a full Committee hearing on the future of U.S.-Pakistan relations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U. S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has affirmed the conviction and sentence of Dawn Nguyen. The defendant was convicted of knowingly making a false statement in connection with the purchase of firearms; selling and disposing of firearms to William Spengler, a known felon; and possession of firearms while being an unlawful user of marijuana, was sentenced to 96 months in prison.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce and Small Business Committee leaders today expressed disappointment following the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to forgo permanent protection of small businesses from heightened disclosure requirements included in the commission’s open Internet order.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management recently recognized Nikki Grant-Hoffman, McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area Science and Education Coordinator, at the National Association for Interpretations National Workshop.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: After years of facing uncertainty with their tax bill, the bipartisan PATH Act ends the guessing game for American job creators and provides permanent tax relief aimed to grow our economy here at home.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Scott J. Lampert, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Regional Office for the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OIG"), and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, law enforcement was notified by a cooperating witness who saw the contents of the defendant’s electronic tablet. The contents observed by the witness consisted of young females engaging in sexually...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Alvin Houston, Jr., 28, of Auburn, Maine was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to nine years in prison and five years of supervised release for transporting a minor in interstate commerce with the intent that she engage in prostitution. He pleaded guilty on July 29, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Dujuan Harris, 35, of Providence, R.I., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on Tuesday to trafficking a 17-year-old girl from Texas to Rhode Island for the purpose of offering her for commercial sexual activity, and to being in possession of photographs of the minor victim in various stages of undress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Oakland, CA - Dec. 16, 2015…Critically endangered tadpoles emergency evacuated from the high Sierra and transported to Oakland Zoo and San Francisco Zoo have successfully morphed into healthy mountain yellow-legged frogs. The precious cargo, carefully collected by National Park Service biologists...
