News published on Federal Newswire in July 2015

News from July 2015


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 6.


News Release: Investigation Began After Defendant’s Memory Card Found at a Deer Lease in Marion County.


Old Fall River Road Opens For The Season Significant Milestone For Flood Recovery In Rocky Mountain National Park

News Release: This morning at 11:00 a.m., Senator Cory Gardner, Congressman Jared Polis and Federal Highways Administration Division Director Ric Suarez joined park superintendent Vaughn Baker to open Old Fall River Road for the season.


Look Ahead: Committee Announces Hearing Schedule for the Week of July 6

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 6.


News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of a 58 page federal indictment charging 39 defendants in Operation Third World, an extensive investigation aimed at dismantling a violent drug trafficking network primarily operating out of Baton Rouge and Ascension Parish.


News Release: Amy Bartlett. (307)344-2015. e-mail us. As Yellowstone National Park enters the busiest month of the year, visitors are reminded that they are responsible for their safety, which includes viewing wildlife from safe distances of at least 25 yards. In recent separate incidents, two people were injured after...


Members to Review Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Jobs and Promote American Concrete

News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a hearing for Friday, July 10 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R. 985, Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015."


Catherine McKinney Pleads Not Guilty To Large Law Firm Embezzlement

News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Catherine McKinney, 61, of Hartland, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to federal fraud charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy released McKinney on conditions pending trial, which has not...


East St. Louis Man Sentenced To 77 Months In Prison For Possession Of A Firearm By A Convicted Felon

News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Reginald L. Beck, 39, of East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal district court in East St. Louis for the crime of Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon.


News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Little Rock District Office today announced the filing of a federal Complaint and subsequent arrest of two...


A Look Ahead – July 6-10

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of July 6.


Reichert Opening Statement: Repatriation of Foreign Earnings as a Source of Funding for the Highway Trust Fund

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the taxation of the repatriation of foreign earnings as a funding mechanism for a multi-year highway bill.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Central Coast real estate developer was sentenced this morning to 168 months in federal prison for his conviction on fraud and money laundering charges after bilking investors who put millions of dollars into Central Coast real estate projects.


Members to Review Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Jobs and Promote American Concrete

News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade has scheduled a hearing for Friday, July 10 at 9:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “H.R. 985, Concrete Masonry Products Research, Education, and Promotion Act of 2015."


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following floor statement in support of H.R. 1295, the Trade Preferences Extension Act.


Two Schuele Boys Gang Associates Plead Guilty To Drug Charges

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that two Schuele Boys Gang associates pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. Benjamin Peoples, aka Beans, 26, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine which carries a penalty up to 20...


Senator Boxer’s Statement on BP Oil Spill Settlement

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the announcement that BP has agreed to pay $18.7 billion to settle civil claims from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. The agreement includes $5.5 ...


KC Man Sentenced for Possessing Thousands of Images of Child Porn

News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for having thousands of images of child pornography on his computer. Duane E. Elliott, 57, of Kansas City...


News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Evelyn Jean Vickers, 39, of Kingsport, Tenn., was sentenced on June 30, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to a federal prison term of 110 months for her role in an extensive a-PVP (alpha-pyrrolidinopentiophenone) distribution conspiracy centered in...