News from February 2015
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) will deliver remarks at the American Enterprise Institute on Monday, March 2, focused on the future of U.S. communications policy. Chairman Walden is expected to address the FCC’s recent vote to impose Depression-era monopoly telephone regulation on the Internet as well as the Energy and Commerce Committee’s work toward a #CommActUpdate. The event will be livestreamed here.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: “Recent recalls demonstrate that more needs to be done to keep our roads safe. This bill takes a first step by getting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the information, resources, and authorities needed to protect consumers from vehicle safety defects," said Pallone. “The bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Indictment Alleges Woman Threatened to Assault and Murder a Federal Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Thursday, Feb. 26, District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez sentenced Kuaumi Jn-Baptiste, 28, of St Thomas, to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Aaron Hicks, a/k/a Boog, a/k/a Boogy, 30, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the murder of Bangladeshi-American writer Avijit Roy...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation was sentenced on Feb. 23, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - This evening, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the following statement in response to the House passage of a stop-gap funding measure that will keep the Department of Homeland Security funded at fiscal year 2014 levels for the next seven days and avoid a shutdown of the agency at midnight tonight.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Naples residents Sydney Jackson Williams, Jr. (66) and his wife, Lorie Ann Williams (48), with conspiracy to evade transaction reporting requirements and structuring cash withdrawals. Additionally...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of next week’s hearing on “21st Century Energy Markets: How the Changing Dynamics of World Energy Markets Impact our Economy and Energy Security," the majority and minority staff of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are seeking feedback from stakeholders, releasing a series of questions for discussion.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Kasmiel Samuel Sumrall, 28, of East Saint Louis, was arraigned today, after being indicted last week by a federal grand jury, on charge of Unlawful Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced former correctional officer Derrick Jones, age 41, of Aberdeen, Maryland, today to 20 months in prison, followed by 18 months of supervised release, for racketeering conspiracy arising from their participation in the smuggling of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Used Stolen Identity to Gain Employment at a Pediatrician’s Office; Treated 137 Patients, Including Infants, and Wrote Over 400 Prescriptions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: Defendant Returned To Reservation Where Crime Occurred, Refused To Register As Required.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will host a cooperative program with the American Eagle Foundation about the majestic bald eagle, Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Meet on Saturday, March 14, at 1:00 p.m. (CT) at the Gateway to the Big South Fork Visitor Center in Crossville, Tennessee...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner demanding answers as to why the organization sent 800,000 people incorrect information about their 2014 Obamacare subsidies.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the following activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Wesley Running Shield, age 28, and Michael Alford, age 33, both of Pine Ridge, South Dakota, were found guilty of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, at the conclusion of a four-day federal jury trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
