News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (PSI) Chairman Rob Portman (R-Ohio), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and Ways and Means Oversight...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has again ordered Oak Harbor Freight Lines Inc. to stop retaliating against truck drivers who refuse to drive when they feel too ill or fatigued.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: James Frei charged in Ramsey County for robbing a Wal-Mart and pointing gun at St. Paul Police Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Daynna Gregory, the last of three defendants charged with stealing state restitution funds, has pleaded guilty. Earlier this year, Tammi Stephens and Richard Cantrell also entered guilty pleas to theft of public funds and conspiracy stemming from a check fraud scheme to steal from a victims’...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Five defendants were indicted on charges stemming from their participation in an extensive tax refund and identity theft fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, members of the House Ways and Means Committee introduced several bills to strengthen the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and better help its beneficiaries move from welfare to work. The eight bills are...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -BRYAN ANDREW POWELL, 45, of Edmond, Oklahoma, was sentenced by United States District Judge Robin Cauthron to serve 36 months in prison for possession of child pornography, followed by five years of supervised release, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Powell was indicted on March 3, 2015, and pleaded guilty on April 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ORONDE GABRIEL, age 30, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to falsify ATF records related to the purchase of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Smuggled Alien Across Border from Canada.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability held a peer review of the Transmission Reliability Program on June 10-11, 2015, in Washington, DC. Twenty-five presentations were held during eight sessions. Materials including the agenda and presentations are now available for download.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) this week announces completion of a new online anthology of essays by five accomplished local authors about the effects of a changing climate on the lives and landscape they treasure in Interior Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALLEN REICHMAN, a former Executive Director of Investments at a New York investment bank and financial services company, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and $10 million in restitution for defrauding...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: A man who possessed child pornography pled guilty on July 13, 2015, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Former Fort Campbell soldier alleged to have transported a 13 year old across state lines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Obtains $251,500 Settlement in Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Against Effingham, Illinois, Landlord.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: In Waco today, Charles D. Jones, 61-year-old owner of Charles D. Jones Capital Management, Inc. (CDJCM), was sentenced to six years in federal prison and ordered to pay $9,329,850.36 restitution for his role in a Ponzi scheme announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Kathleen Hickman, Dallas Field Office, and Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of today’s expected House debate on H.R. 2898, the Republican attack on the Endangered Species Act (ESA) disguised as a California drought bill, Natural Resources Committee Democrats highlighted this year’s many GOP attempts to weaken the law by singling out individual species that Republicans have decided are no longer worth saving.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Must pay $2.1 Million in Penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on promoting work opportunities for Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - A hydraulic press crushed a 62-year-old machine operator's left hand at a seal and gasket manufacturer, resulting in multiple broken bones. The injured worker, a 15-year employee, has been unable to return to work and has endured three surgeries as a result.
