News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven has sentenced Eyad Farah (42, Barrington, TX) to three years and one month in federal prison for conspiring to export firearms without a license, exporting firearms without a license, and smuggling firearms from the United States. The Court also ordered him to forfeit seven firearms that are traceable to the offenses. Farah pleaded guilty on Sept. 22, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Former Deputy at Bullitt County, Kentucky, Sheriff’s Office Indicted for Civil Rights Violations.
By Commerce 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 Commerce 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 DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today highlighted her efforts to ensure that the omnibus appropriations bill included language to fully fund wildfire suppression efforts for the rest of Fiscal Year 2016. As part of her remarks, delivered this afternoon on the Senate floor, Murkowski reiterated that a long-term wildfire and forestry management bill is one of her top priorities as chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting in January 2016 to markup bipartisan legislation reauthorizing child nutrition programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the filing of an Information against OWEN LI, charging him with securities fraud...
By Commerce 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 DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Edward White, age 46, of Waldorf, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to theft of firearms and use of fire during the commission of a felony, in connection with the robbery and arson of a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: CINCINNATI - Bryan Barbarawi, 35, of West Chester, Ohio, pleaded guilty to committing money laundering relative to the sale of a vehicle. Barbarawi faces a maximum prison term of 20 years and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - David Nathaniel Peebles, age 31, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to carjacking and to being a felon in possession of a gun.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2015
News Release: Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Rep. Mike Bishop (R-MI) issued the following statements today after the Senate passed legislation extending for two years the Federal Perkins Loan Program, which expired this fall...
By EPA 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 15, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Las Vegas, Nevada pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of transferring counterfeit currency, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan A. Tokash, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, the defendant is accused of selling heroin and fentanyl at his place of employment in the Bewley Building in Lockport and in a residential neighborhood in Lockport. As part of the federal investigation, Cheatham was identified by a victim who overdosed on fentanyl which was purchased from Cheatham.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: The United States announced today that it has joined with the state of Ohio in seeking the termination of a consent decree with the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS), recognizing Ohio’s successful elimination of its use of disciplinary solitary confinement on children in its custody and its improvement of individualized mental health treatment for children formerly at risk of such confinement.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Today, the White House Office of Management and Budget and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management announced the 2015 Presidential Rank Award recipients, recognizing and celebrating some of the federal government’s top career executives ...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today finalized a rule to ensure that farm safety-net payments are issued only to active managers of farms that operate as joint ventures or general partnerships, consistent with the direction and authority provide by Congress in the 2014 Farm Bill. The action, which exempts family farm operations, closes a loophole where individuals who were not actively part of farm management still received payments.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2015
News Release: An Alabama resident was arrested today after being indicted on Dec. 9 by a federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama, on 15 counts of wire fraud, 15 counts of aggravated identity theft and two counts of passing U.S. Treasury checks with a false endorsement, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck, Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama.
