News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The owner of a Topeka jewelry store pleaded guilty Wednesday to knowingly buying jewelry that had been stolen in home invasions, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) with important new findings about problems within the...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee recently voted 51-0 approving H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. This nonpartisan legislation is a product of more than a year of working with patients, advocates, researchers, innovators, and health care professionals to bring our nation’s laws...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow - Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry - today attended an event featuring high school students from around the country cooking fresh, healthy meals for U.S. Senators. The recipes for the meals, created by the ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following statement following House passage Tuesday evening of legislation reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved legislation to protect the future of the Internet. Last year, the administration asked the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to convene a multistakeholder...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing its longstanding efforts to improve safety at some of the nation’s most critical nuclear sites, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today released a report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) with important new findings about problems within the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Defendant Owned Johnson Family Mortuary in Fort Worth.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Fern Dowling, 41, of Carmel pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and to distribute 280 grams of a mixture or substance containing cocaine base, commonly referred to as “crack.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester has returned a four count indictment charging Guarionex Rivera, 27, of Clifton Springs, NY, with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: HUNTSVILLE - A federal judge today sentenced a Madison County man to 140 years in prison on multiple charges of producing child pornography, some of it taken with cameras he hid in the bathrooms of three Huntsville-area businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr., Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Sec. Spencer Collier and Etowah County Sheriff Todd Entrekin.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today advanced the process of compiling broad and bipartisan energy legislation by holding the fourth and final legislative hearing to receive testimony on 42 proposals to promote accountability and reform in America’s national energy policies. The ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The 2016 State and Foreign Operations Appropriations bill drastically shortchanges critical components of our national security - diplomacy and development - cutting more than 11% from the President’s budget request. Additionally, it includes new and politically motivated ideological riders designed to feed Republicans’ sham Benghazi investigation and undermine President Obama’s normalization of relations with Cuba.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Stress Need to Reform Broken Wildfire Funding System DENVER, Colo. June 9, 2015 – Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced above average fire activity projections for the upcoming 2015 fire wildfire season. To view the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) forecast, visit this website.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Société Générale Private Banking Will Pay $17.807 Million Penalty and Berner Kantonalbank AG Will Pay $4.619 Million Penalty; Both Continue to Cooperate With Department of Justice The Department of Justice announced today that two banks, Société Générale Private Banking (Suisse) SA (SGPB-Suisse) and Berner Kantonalbank AG (BEKB), have reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: A former specialist with the U.S. Army pleaded guilty to accepting a bribe from an Afghan truck driver at Forward Operating Base Gardez, Afghanistan (FOB Gardez), in exchange for allowing the driver to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base for resale on the black market. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: One member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang pleaded guilty today to an indictment charging him with conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise and conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Operator of Psychiatric Facility Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison, and Owner of Group Home Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison The former president of a Houston hospital, his son and a co-conspirator were sentenced today to 45 years, 20 years and 12 years in prison, respectively, for their roles in a $158 ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Federal agencies today issued a final interagency policy statement establishing joint standards for assessing the diversity policies and practices of the entities they regulate.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: First Utah Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah Written Agreement issued Sept. 23, 2009 Terminated June 2, 2015 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
