News from July 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: 15 Years in Prison for Distributing Crack Cocaine in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the resignation of the Director of OPM...
By State Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement on Iran’s al-Quds Day rallies on Friday, where crowds chanted “death to Israel" and “down with America.".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined members of Congress, state elected officials, and local business and community leaders in applauding the President’s designation of the Basin and Range National Monument on public lands in southeastern Nevada. This national monument...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Traci Weaver or Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. As part of the Yellowstone Pavement Preservation Project, specific parking areas will have 24-hour closures in the coming days. Yellowstone National Park received $3.2 million in funding from the National Park Service Intermountain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sean Johnson a/k/a “Thomas Butler" a/k/a “Wayne Sunderland," 32, - of South Portland, Maine, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Some projects are already underway-and several are about to begin-at the Mormon Row Historic District in Grand Teton National Park. These projects will launch a 'summer of preserving the past' throughout an important cultural area located near Antelope Flats Road. This series of projects will stabilize...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: HONOLULU - A federal jury found Roman Gabriel Contreras, 44, of Ontario, California, guilty on Monday, July 6, after a three day trial in United States District Court in Honolulu. Contreras was found guilty of attempted possession with intent to distribute of more than 500 grams of a substance containing methamphetamine on Kauai on March 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Jeffrey Leblanc, 28, of North Hampton, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Friday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to possessing child pornography, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Frank T. Pimentel, who is handling the case, stated that according to the complaint, on July 9, 2015, Brown entered the First Niagara Bank at 2853 Delaware Avenue in Kenmore, NY. The defendant approached the teller and asked to exchange a one dollar bill. After receiving four...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - PAUL PARKER was sentenced to 36 months in prison involving a scheme to defraud four clients by using their investment funds to pay his expenses and gamble. He also failed to file tax returns during the scheme, in part to avoid reporting his income from the fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Sues Nevada Housing Provider for Discriminating Against Families with Children.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today responded to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the federal government’s nonpartisan watchdog, on the Commerce Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG). The report outlines a number of fundamental failures in the OIG and makes a number of recommendations.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that John C. Morrison, 70, and Anna F. Novak, 57, both of Ashland, Wis. have agreed to plead guilty to federal drug and tax charges. The guilty plea hearings have been scheduled for Aug. 27, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. before the Honorable James D. Peterson in U.S. District Court in Madison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will host a media availability TODAY following the House vote on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Criminal Information was filed on July 8, 2015 in U.S. District Court in Scranton charging a Newtown woman with allegedly defrauding the Social Security Administration of financial benefits intended for low-income individuals and families.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 344-77. The nonpartisan legislation will help to bring our health care system into the 21st Century, investing in science and medical innovation, incorporating the patient perspective, and modernizing clinical trials, to deliver better, faster cures to more patients and loved ones in need.
