News from June 2015
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: “I am deeply troubled by the contamination incident at NIH. We rely on NIH as our premiere medical research agency to conduct its work safely and effectively, and this episode raises concerns about whether proper protocols are in place to guarantee patient safety. Our number one priority should be the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss bipartisan legislation regarding the health law’s menu-labeling requirements. H.R. 2017, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act, authored by committee member and GOP Conference Chair Rep.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concluding a banner week for the committee’s Architecture of Abundance efforts, the Subcommittee on Energy and Power today concluded a two-day hearing that examined Title IV’s Subtitle A on Energy Efficiency and Subtitle B on Accountability. Both government and non-government witnesses...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney David Adams Commended for Significantly Enhancing Public Safety in Indian Country and Combating Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Paul A. Winfield, 41, and Dante R. McAlister, 36, both of Beloit, Wis., were arrested early this morning on federal drug charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell sentenced Daniel Curran, age 41, of York, Pennsylvania to 70 years of incarceration at a hearing today in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Curran pleaded guilty to producing, receiving and possessing child pornography on December 4, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Jesse Clyde Lee, 68, of Knoxville, Tenn., was sentenced on June 4, 2015, to serve 78 months in prison by the Honorable Thomas Varlan, Chief U.S. District Court Judge. Lee pleaded guilty in November 2014 to an information charging him with arson of a building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The results of the June 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: A Nigerian man who made false claims on employment documents and banking applications was sentenced June 1, 2015 to more than two years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: “I am deeply troubled by the contamination incident at NIH. We rely on NIH as our premiere medical research agency to conduct its work safely and effectively, and this episode raises concerns about whether proper protocols are in place to guarantee patient safety. Our number one priority should be the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SETH WATSON, 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, reiterated the need for qualified and permanent Inspectors General (IGs) in federal agencies, and underscored the shared responsibility between the Administration and Congress...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: “While the current draft indicates that the overall percentage of contamination cases may be small, it acknowledges there have been contamination events. When it comes to the water we drink, every instance of contamination must be considered serious.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Dvir Derhy, 46, of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the owner of the Miami Office Center, which leases office space and manages property at a location known as the Flagler Building Downtown, entered a plea of guilty yesterday to one count of bribery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Paul Allen Miller, 25, of Mills, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on June 4, 2015, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Miller was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received 30 months imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the Natrona County Sheriff’s Office and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: Local high school students will join thousands of volunteers at public lands sites around the country to celebrate National Trails Day, June 6, 2015. Locally, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern States (BLM ES) and the BLM Washington Office (BLM WO) Division of Environmental Quality and Protection...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: In the tenth in the series of videos introducing the Republican members of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., today underscores the importance of West Virginia’s vast energy resources that provide for tens of thousands of jobs and power the state’s economy.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss bipartisan legislation regarding the health law’s menu-labeling requirements. H.R. 2017, the Common Sense Nutrition Disclosure Act, authored by committee member and GOP Conference Chair Rep.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced June 3, 2015, to more than five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Raul Fernando Lora, of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced to fifty-four months in prison and three years of supervised for illegally reentered the United States after having been previously deported, false representation of a social security number, and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith. Lora pled guilty to the charges on Jan. 29, 2015.
