News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that James Robert Underwood, 43, of Dalton, Georgia, and formerly of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to failing to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Hill, New Hampshire, man pleaded guilty today to three counts of tax evasion in the U.S. District Court in the District of New Hampshire, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Donald Feith of the District of New Hampshire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - George N. Sidiropolis, 35, of McMechen, West Virginia, was convicted today of heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
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: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles spoke today at the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police Summer Professional Development Conference held at Boyne Highlands in Harbor Springs, Michigan. On the 21st Century policing panel, which also included local law enforcement police chiefs, U.S. Attorney Miles addressed the need for law enforcement to engage community members to avoid situations that occurred in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore, Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Alleged Mastermind of Global Cybercrime Campaigns Extradited to the United States to Face Charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the administration’s approval of Medicaid demonstration projects. A recent report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office raised concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability in the administration’s spending on Medicaid programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24, 2015 - Today, the Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs heard from witnesses representing all of Puerto Rico’s political parties during a hearing to review the relationship between the current economic crisis gripping the island and the unresolved issue of political status.
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 U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Cybercrime Organization Stole $55 Million From Worldwide Financial System In Three Cyberattacks Committed From 2011 To 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging JEFFREY SCOTT EVANS, 51, with traveling from Tennessee to Bloomington, Minnesota, for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with a 13-year-old female. EVANS made an initial appearance yesterday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn., before Magistrate Judge Jeffrey J. Keyes.
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and a former chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today delivered the following statement at a subcommittee hearing on the peace process in Colombia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Michael Dennis Powers, 47, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy M. Koenig and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced John R. Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1190, the Protecting Seniors’ Access to Medicare Act of 2015, a bill to repeal Obamacare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), which is a board of 15 unelected officials who have the power to cut Medicare’s payments for treatments without Congress’s approval. Upon passage, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: BILLINGS - Scott James Nichols, 42, of Lockwood, Montana, pleaded guilty today in Billings federal court to distribution of child pornography, two counts of coercion and enticement, and two counts of attempted coercion and enticement. Nichols pleaded to the five counts pursuant to a Superseding Information.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Congress charges the FCC with developing designated entity rules for spectrum auctions that help small businesses and encourage competition. These competitive bidding rules were last comprehensively updated in 2006 and have not kept pace with the wireless marketplace. As such, the group of lawmakers called on the FCC to adopt final rules that encourage meaningful participation by actual small businesses.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to discuss the administration’s approval of Medicaid demonstration projects. A recent report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office raised concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability in the administration’s spending on Medicaid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Wilson Antonio Lopez (32, Spring Hill) has pleaded guilty to carjacking and interference with commerce by robbery. He faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison for the carjacking count and up to 20 years in prison for the robbery count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives will vote on an important piece of legislation that would help keep electricity prices affordable for families and businesses today. H.R. 2042, The Ratepayer Protection Act, would protect families and businesses from significant electricity rate increases...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, praised unanimous support for the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act (DRIVE Act) at the Senate EPW markup today...
