News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: CHAIRMAN CHAFFETZ OPENING STATEMENT DURING FCC HEARING
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, March 16, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Joel Daniel Dixon, 49, of Medford, Oregon, to 188 months in federal prison, after he previously pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Dixon will be on supervised release for five years after he completes his prison sentence.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is extending the comment period on a Request for Information on Chemical Management and Permissible Exposure Limits to Oct. 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: SAIPAN, CNMI - ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, U.S. District Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona sentenced Wei Lin, age 32, of the People’s Republic of China, to 235 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit sex trafficking. Judge Manglona also ordered Lin to pay $7,172.39 in restitution to each of the three victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Clinton, Pa., had his term of supervised release revoked and was sentenced in federal court to three years imprisonment to be followed by a 15-year term of supervised release, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to review the President’s budget request for foreign assistance. The hearing, entitled “The FY 2016 Budget Request: Assessing U.S. Foreign Assistance Effectiveness, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Subcommittee Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA) will lead a Subcommittee roundtable this week on the rising toll of disasters in the United States, both in terms of human lives and the loss of property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 61-year-old Newton, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a criminal information was filed today charging a Kingston man with distributing Oxycontin and unlawfully possessing a firearm as an illegal drug user.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Donald Hargrave, 62, of Douglasville, GA, pleaded guilty to unlawfully receiving Title II Child Insurance Benefits before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Lopez Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Oscar Herrera III, 42, of Laredo, has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Janice Ayala, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio and Webb County Sherriff Martin Cuellar.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - On Monday, March 16, 2015, Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner sentenced Joel Daniel Dixon, 49, of Medford, Oregon, to 188 months in federal prison, after he previously pled guilty to being a felon in possession of ammunition. Dixon will be on supervised release for five years after he completes his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Commissioner J. Christopher Giancarlo of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Dude Galloway, 34, of Blackfoot, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to assaulting a federal officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on May 28, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released a draft bill to reauthorize the Federal Communications Commission. The legislation, released ahead of the subcommittee’s Thursday hearing with all five FCC commissioners, would reauthorize the agency for the first time in nearly 25 years.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has rescheduled the hearing on “Examining the 340B Drug Pricing Program" for Tuesday, March 24, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: In Pecos today, a federal judge sentenced 56-year-old Jose Luis Corrales to 365 months and 28-year-old Angelica Corrales to 210 months in federal prison, announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez and Pecos Chief of Police Clay D. McKinney.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today the unsealing of a 10-count indictment following the arrest of Raul Oropeza Lopez, 47, and Ana Maria Oropeza, 41, both of Delano. The Oropezas are charged in the indictment with mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a scheme to submit fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Agrees to Removal from the United States and Forfeiture of $66,000.
