News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: SOUTH BEND- United States Attorney David Capp announced today that DeAngelo Sconiers, 43, South Bend, Indiana was charged by Criminal Complaint for distribution of cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today Maryland Congressman Chris Van Hollen, Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee, introduced the GROW AMERICA Act with Congressman Steve Israel (D-NY), Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Peter DeFazio...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and Ways and Means Committees this week demanded responses from Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew regarding payments the administration has made to insurance companies to subsidize cost-sharing under the health care law after the administration requested-but did not receive from Congress-an appropriation of funding.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Two separate indictments were returned today by the federal grand jury related to homicides occurring in the City of Saint Louis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Ronald John Griffin, age 47, of Huntsville, Arkansas, and Harry Robinson, age 51, of Springdale, Arkansas, were sentenced today to a combined total of 60 years in federal prison for unrelated...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - María Del Carmen Rivera-Negrón and Julio Colón-Santiago, owners of Lawman Gun Shop, were sentenced to 24 months and 36 months in prison, respectively, for unlawful production of an identification document, specifically, a Puerto Rico Concealed Carry Weapons Permit announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The defendants pled guilty on Aug. 11, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that Mike Bloomquist has been named Deputy Staff Director for the committee. Bloomquist succeeds Alexa Marrero, a longtime Capitol Hill veteran who is leaving the committee, and the nation’s capital, as she and her husband relocate to Chicago. Bloomquist, who previously served as the committee’s General Counsel, returns from the private sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Defendant Ordered to Pay $77,934.00 in Restitution to Cover NMSU’s Costs in Responding to Threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Dominique A. Burwell, 21, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced on July 13, 2015, to 70 months in federal prison on charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin from September 2012 through October 2014...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today began an investigation following the release of a video revealing the Planned Parenthood Senior Director of Medical Services discussing the sale of fetal body parts. The sale of fetal body parts for profit is illegal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: Attorney who Bribed Former State Court Judge also Sentenced to Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Republican leaders of three congressional committees today wrote to the Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council to call for the withdrawal of the administration’s proposed blacklisting guidance and regulation. Expressing concern over the anticipated harmful consequences of the proposal, leaders on the Education and the Workforce Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Small Business Committee explain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Fort Buchanan Army Reserve Staff Sergeant pleaded guilty today to bulk cash smuggling of $113,050 and theft of government property worth $6,302 while serving in Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an additional charge was brought today against a Columbia, Mo., man who previously was indicted by a federal grand jury for distributing heroin to a 16-year-old minor who died of a suspected heroin overdose.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., July 15, 2015 - Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) today requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement’s (“OSM") compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in the development and drafting of the Obama Administration’s Stream Buffer Zone Rule (SBZR). The Department of the Interior is expected to issue the proposed rule tomorrow.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Royal Gorge Field Office, in coordination with the Pike’s Peak Climbers Alliance, is seeking public input on a proposal to add campsites, restrooms and day-use parking at the popular Shelf Road Climbing Area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed against charging a Sandusky man with conspiracy and wire fraud for allegedly submitting fraudulent invoices, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By State Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the expected nomination of Susan Coppedge to the position of Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons with the rank of Ambassador at Large. The U.S. Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal jury in Harrisburg today found Nicholas I. Stanishia, age 45, an Ohio prison inmate, guilty of conspiracy to transmit a threat to injure a central Pennsylvania witness who had testified against him. The case was tried before U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III. Sentencing is deferred pending the preparation of a presentence report.
