News published on Federal Newswire in July 2015

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement during a committee hearing considering nominations for the Office of the United States Trade Representative and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation...

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement welcoming a complaint by the International Labor Relations Forum (ILRF) and Peruvian unions that alleges that the Peruvian government violated the labor chapter of the U.S-Peru free trade agreement (FTA)...

By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: Today, U.S. Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Barbara A. Mikulski (D-MD), Vice Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee issued the following joint statement on the House and Senate Appropriations Committees completing markups of all 12 Appropriations bills.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Justin Ryan Serna, 28, of Corpus Christi, has been arrested following the return of an indictment alleging he produced child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months (10 years) imprisonment followed by five years of supervised after entering a plea of guilty to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

By Homeland Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, highlighted a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that surveyed green building efforts across the federal government. Agencies surveyed reported that programs like...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 23, 2015

News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that LORI S. FRY, age 47, of Baton Rouge was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to 38 months in federal prison, following her convictions of nine counts of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: 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 using a firearm to commit a robbery, which led to a high-speed police chase that ended in a crash that sent him to the hospital.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owner of several Springfield, Mo., area restaurants and his son pleaded guilty in federal court today, in two separate but related cases, to their roles in a more than $5.5 million bank fraud scheme.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: Extreme fire behavior continues on the Reynolds Creek Wildland Fire on the east side of Glacier National Park. Additional resources are arriving, including fire crews, helicopters, engines and an interagency incident command team. Due to windy conditions and extreme fire behavior, today’s suppression actions were limited to aerial water drops and some on-the-ground crew work.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Denver man has pleaded guilty to flying a plane loaded with marijuana into an airport in Iola, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.

By Homeland Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: New space will offer increased capabilities for ICE to combat cybercrime cases involving underground online marketplaces, child exploitation, intellectual property theft, more * Photos and b-roll available at http://www.dvidshub.net/unit/ICE For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: A nine count federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging 105 defendants with racketeering, drug trafficking, drive-by shooting murders and related firearm offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico. The Bureau of Alcohol, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Lynch released the following statement after the federal grand jury released its indictment against Dylann Storm Roof: “Good afternoon and thank you for coming.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: A leader of a coupon counterfeiting ring pleaded guilty today to participating in a conspiracy to sell counterfeit coupons using the “Silk Road” online marketplace, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging a Louisiana woman with offenses related to her sex trafficking of a minor, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney J. Walter Green of the Middle District of Louisiana and Special Agent in Charge Michael J. Anderson of the FBI New Orleans Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department, along with the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Michigan, announced today that it has reached an agreement with the University of Michigan under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The agreement, filed as a consent decree along with a complaint in the U.S. ...

By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: HOUSTON — One minute he was working in the 8-foot trench below ground. The next, he was being buried in it. His co-workers came to his rescue, digging him out with their bare hands. Moments after they pulled the injured man to safety, the unprotected trench collapsed again. His injuries were serious and led to his hospitalization.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 22, 2015

News Release: HOUSTON — Despite his request for a safety harness, a temporary worker without fall protection on a roof later fell 12 feet through the roof. His fall resulted in his hospitalization with fractured arms and severe contusions.