News from June 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: I thank the Chairman for holding this hearing on the Affordable Care Act. We are always pleased to discuss our landmark health law. Let me begin by saying what I have said at countless other hearings-the law works. It was the right thing to do; it was the just thing to do; and it was long overdue. It is the law of the land.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today praised the passage of trade legislation in the U.S. Senate to allow the President to complete trade agreements, and the expected passage of a bill to expand key worker assistance programs. The Trade Promotion Authority bill passed 60-38, on a bipartisan vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAMES BROWN, 35, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 180 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ana Lopez, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for her conviction on conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney George C. Burgasser, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant was employed as a front desk administrator at a local dental practice. Between March and September 2014, Carr forged approximately 75 prescriptions for hydrocodone. The defendant created, printed, and then...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: McPHERSON, KAN. - A married couple from India who themselves are unlawfully in the United States have been arrested on an indictment charging unlawful employment of aliens, document fraud, bank fraud and making false claims of U.S. citizenship, U. S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Weednesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Today, the U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a federal Clean Air Act settlement with several Arizona and New Mexico-based utility companies to install pollution control technology to reduce harmful air pollution from the Four Corners Power Plant located on the Navajo Nation near Shiprock, N.M.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the House of Representatives passed a series of bipartisan bills introduced by members of the Ways and Means Committee to protect and strengthen the Medicare Advantage (MA) program for seniors by increasing transparency, accessibility, and accountability. Upon passage, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A Montgomery man was convicted on June 19, 2015 for unlicensed firearms trafficking, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CAROLYN TREAUDO, age 54, a of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for the theft of $94,840 in government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyree Dupree Williams, 21, of Detroit, Michigan, was convicted today of prescription painkiller trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) delivered the following floor statement in support of H.R. 2146, the Trade Priorities and Accountability Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Faulkton, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on June 22, 2015, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Julio Medina-Mojica, former President of the Humacao Shooting Range, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for unlawful production of an identification document, specifically, a Puerto Rico Concealed Carry Weapons Permit announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. Medina-Mojica pled guilty on March 10, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 28-year-old federal inmate has been sentenced for receiving contraband in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Virgin Islands. Wednesday, June 24, 2015. St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Richard Antonio Hodge, Jr., 30, of St. Thomas, to over 60 years in prison for Hobbs Act robbery, discharge of a firearm during the commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Thomas Linwood Jones, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 10 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the return of an indictment charging Esthela M. Clark (46, Jacksonville) with alien smuggling, labor trafficking, and sex trafficking offenses. If convicted on all counts, she faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. The indictment also notifies Clark that the United States intends to forfeit two motor vehicles, which are alleged to have been used in the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in Milwaukee returned a 33-count indictment charging Paul Bouraxis and three members of his family with violating federal tax laws.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) advanced 17 bills and three nominations on Wednesday.
