News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: EUGENE, Ore - Calling the defendant’s conduct “huge criminal thinking," a Bandon man was sentenced on Wednesday to eight months’ confinement at the Residential Reentry Center in Medford and ordered to pay more than $169,000 in restitution for disability and medical benefits he fraudulently received.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its focus on improving auto safety by examining the status of vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Members of the subcommittee heard testimony from the National Highway...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its focus on improving auto safety by examining the status of vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Members of the subcommittee heard testimony from the National Highway...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that David Benton, age 49, of Elberton, Georgia was sentenced today to serve 227 months in Federal prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Mr. Benton was sentenced by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, Untied States District Judge, in Athens, Georgia.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the administration in the case of King v. Burwell.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent two letters relating to pipeline safety oversight. The first letter requests updates from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the status...
By State Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement following the Committee’s markup and approval of the Global Anti-Poaching Act (HR 2494)...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the administration in the case of King v. Burwell.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine bipartisan legislation to improve health care for newborns, infants, and children.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: “This proposal is welcome news for our country’s small businesses that deserve a fair shot at competing in today’s wireless marketplace. Small businesses drive our economy, employ millions of Americans, and are often women- and minority-owned, but outdated rules make it even harder for them to thrive.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Dwayne Fahie, 26, made his initial appearance in District Court today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after his arrest for Possession of a Firearm by a Convicted Felon and Possession of an Unlicensed Firearm, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Fahie was released after posting a $50,000 property bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: FARGO - Acting U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on June 24, 2015, Alan Douglas Eslinger, 44, Grand Forks, North Dakota, pleaded guilty before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to one count of Receipt of Child Pornography and three counts of Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the announcement that Alaska municipalities will receive $26.2 million from the Department of the Interior as compensation for federal lands within their jurisdictions. Approximately 1,900 local jurisdictions received a total of $404.6 million in PILT payments this year.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The head of the federal government’s personnel management declined to tell the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee the total number of people affected by repeated data breaches at her agency or who perpetrated the attacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: 25 Years in Prison for Distributing in excess of 1,000 grams of heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its focus on improving auto safety by examining the status of vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Members of the subcommittee heard testimony from the National Highway...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Education Affiliates (EA), a for-profit education company based in White Marsh, Maryland, has agreed to pay $13 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to the Department of Education for federal student aid for...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the administration in the case of King v. Burwell.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2015
News Release: “This proposal is welcome news for our country’s small businesses that deserve a fair shot at competing in today’s wireless marketplace. Small businesses drive our economy, employ millions of Americans, and are often women- and minority-owned, but outdated rules make it even harder for them to thrive.
