News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ALEX YÜCEL, the owner of an organization known as “Blackshades" that since 2010 sold and distributed to thousands of people in more than 100 countries a sophisticated and pernicious form of malicious software...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives voted today in favor of H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, with an overwhelming bipartisan vote of 398 to 1. The TSCA Modernization Act was authored by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY), Full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act continues to enjoy growing support from individuals and groups all across the country.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: On June 4, 2015, the newly selected Captain of the USS SHILOH visited Shiloh National Military Park.Commander Adam Aycock was joined by his family in a visit to the park prior to his deployment to Japan to assume command of the ship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Andrew Paul Dinsmore, 19, of Springfield...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM) issued a letter to Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenburg requesting details concerning the use of “cold consent" searches, particularly at transportation facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A 31-year old man from Weirton, West Virginia pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. Joshua Mark Taylor, a former teacher at Collins Middle School, in Oak Hill, West Virginia entered a guilty plea before United States District Court Judge John T. Copenhaver, Jr. in Charleston.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and the Economy Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) kicked off today’s floor debate on the bipartisan H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A member of the Imperial Gangsters street gang was sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder and conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern District of Indiana.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
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By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Africa Subcommittee, introduced bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Raymond Slaton, 43, of Merced; Sidney Allen, 48, of Merced; Donnell Mays, 39, of Turlock; and Omar Lopez, 22, of Turlock, charging them with federal drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brandon William Wood, 36, of Portales, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to ten years in prison for his methamphetamine trafficking and firearms conviction. Wood will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 805, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters (DOTCOM) Act, bipartisan legislation authored by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL). The DOTCOM Act aims to protect the future of the Internet by ensuring that Congressional oversight of the administration’s transition of the Domain Name System to the global Internet community.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Victim's Friends Detained Defendant Until Police Arrived.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The 21st Century Cures Act continues to enjoy growing support from individuals and groups all across the country.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and the Economy Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) kicked off today’s floor debate on the bipartisan H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: In this universe, anything that can vibrate will vibrate, and no oscillator is ever truly at rest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Bradley E. Tyler stated that Jarnot worked as a forklift mechanic for Xerox Corporation at the company's Webster, NY facilities. The defendant placed false orders for new and repaired forklift parts which were not needed with Clarkson Auto Electric, Inc. This allowed Clarkson Auto Electric to issue payment invoices to Xerox for the new forklift parts that Xerox never received.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2015
News Release: The Challenges of Protecting Cultural Heritage in Libya.
