News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on the Obama Administration to work with Congress on welfare reform and child support enforcement. Earlier this week, Hatch, along with Finance Committee member Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), House...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: CONCORD -Roberto Gracia, 41, of Manchester, pled guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to conspiracy to distribute heroin and conspiracy to unlawfully possess cocaine with the intent to distribute, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Senate Finance Committee member Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced legislation to prevent the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Mark Anthony Reyna, 26, from Skagit County, WA was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garr M. King to six years in federal prison, following his pleas of guilty to the theft of firearms from a federally-licensed firearms dealer and felon in possession of firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Nomination of Peter V. Neffenger to be Assistant Secretary (Transportation Security Administration), U.S. Department of Homeland Security and David S. Shapira to be a Governor, United States Postal Service Board of Governors " Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams and Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggleof the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the results of a joint task force that led to the arrest of three suspects and the confiscation of $3.3 million of heroin - the biggest heroin bust in 20 years.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Excerpts of Chairman Ryan’s appearance follow...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Georgia sisters-in-law were sentenced today in the U.S. District Court in Macon, Georgia, for their involvement in a conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson recognized Montana’s U.S. Attorney, Mike Cotter, with the agency’s prestigious Inspector General's Award for Excellence for his efforts and the efforts of his office in combating corruption in federal grants...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing more than $6.7 million in 544 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE - A federal grand jury returned an indictment, unsealed today, charging that correctional officers William J. Ray, 40, of Carrabelle, Florida, and Corry B. Fletcher, 43, of Bristol, Florida, conspired to violate the civil rights of a state inmate and deprived the inmate of constitutional...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Last night, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) went On the Record with Fox News Channel’s Greta Van Susteren to layout the conservative case for why Congress needs to enact trade promotion authority (TPA). Excerpts from the interview follow.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Join the National Park Service and the Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial to honor the 320 men who lost their lives in the largest WWII military disaster on the home front. Visitors are invited to attend the ceremony at 10 AM on Saturday July 18, 2015 at the site of the catastrophe, which occurred...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced Fabio Hirochi Inoue, - 40, of Anaheim, California, to 51 months in prison and five years of supervised release for conspiracy to distribute and possess five kilograms or more of cocaine and conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. Inoue - previously pleaded guilty to these charges on May 13, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: How does a young man from Orlando, Florida, a short drive from Disney World, grow up to become “a brutal, drug crazed torturer," is the question Johnny Dwyer, author of the recently published book American Warlord, attempts to answer. Dwyer chronicles the life of Chucky Taylor who traveled to Liberia and became “the most feared man in Liberia."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to the May Jobs report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - A Harrisburg man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg on multiple charges involving the unlawful distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Richelle D. Blair, 37, of Glen Dale, West Virginia, was convicted today of embezzling money from a local non-profit organization, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 10 - Senate health committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-Wash.) announced today’s hearing would mark the start of a series of bipartisan hearings on possible solutions to achieve the promise of health IT. The senators announced that Sen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: Levi Burns pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography on eve of trial.
