News from December 2015
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) applauded President Obama for signing S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act, into law. This legislation helps to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Orthodox Jewish Rabbi was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for conspiring to kidnap Jewish men in an effort to force them to give their wives religious divorces, referred to as “gets," U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger announced the sentencing of STEVEN RICHARD SMASAL, 48, to 51 months in prison for traveling abroad to engage in illicit sexual conduct. SMASAL pleaded on guilty on July 24, 2015, before U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim. He was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn., before now Senior U.S. District Judge Tunheim.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the funding boost for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) included in the recently released year-end spending package. The measure includes a $2 billion funding boost for NIH and a $133 million increase for FDA...
By Commerce 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 EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirmed that more must be done at the federal level to strengthen our nation’s communications networks to ensure that they are reliable during times of crisis. The report, which specifically reviewed the resiliency of emerging...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-MI, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced that the Committee will hold a business meeting in January 2016 to markup bipartisan legislation reauthorizing child nutrition programs.
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) hailed the funding boost for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) included in the recently released year-end spending package. The measure includes a $2 billion funding boost for NIH and a $133 million increase for FDA...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: A tax return preparer was sentenced to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release for filing a false claim with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The defendant was also ordered to pay $7,500.00 in restitution to the IRS and other victims.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thomas “Tommy" G. Thompson, 63, formerly of Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 24 months in prison for criminal contempt for failing to appear in court after being ordered to do so in connection with civil suits against him. Thompson was a fugitive until earlier this year when he was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Sharnise Carroll, 36, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty yesterday to seven counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of fraudulent tax returns. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 30, 2016. Carroll faces up to three years in prison, up to two years of supervised release, restitution to the IRS, a $700 special assessment and a possible fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dallas McLamore, 30, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine within 1000 feet of the Perry Housing Projects before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life and a fine of $10,000,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that FROILAN IGNACIO MIRANDA-RAMOS, age 30, of Gretna, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to four counts of transferring false Social Security Cards in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1028(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Glenn Sorge, Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (“ICE"), Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), announced today the filing of a civil forfeiture complaint...
By DOE 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: HOUSTON - A 44-year-old ex-banker who resided in Houston made his initial appearance and also entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge Eric Watson and United States Attorney Walt Green announced the unsealing of an indictment returned by a federal grand jury. The indictment is against 11 defendants in a year-long operation and investigation into a drug-trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former tax preparer for television personality Michael “The Situation" Sorrentino and his brother, Marc Sorrentino, today admitted filing fraudulent tax returns on their behalf, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced.
