News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - A Plea and Sentencing Hearing has been set for Duke Energy Business Services, LLC, Duke Energy Progress, Inc., and Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC for April 16, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. in the federal courthouse in Greenville, North Carolina. The companies were charged with multiple violations of the Clean Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Rick Grimmett admits to more than $366,000 in structured cash transactions.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today announced draft legislation to tackle the nation’s growing data security challenges. The “Data Security and Breach Notification Act" is a comprehensive plan to help safeguard sensitive consumer information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: 15-042. WASHINGTON - Commerzbank AG, a global financial institution headquartered in Frankfurt, and its U.S. branch, Commerzbank AG New York Branch (Commerz New York), have agreed to forfeit $563 million, pay a $79 million fine and enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Gregory Owens, 58, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Portland and charged with interstate domestic violence and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence in connection with a home invasion shooting in Saco, Maine on Dec. 18, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan members of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade today announced draft legislation to tackle the nation’s growing data security challenges. The “Data Security and Breach Notification Act" is a comprehensive plan to help safeguard sensitive consumer information...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 49-year-old Scranton woman pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, for making false representations in connection with the purchase of firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida. - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Orange Park residents Paul Reynolds Friel, Jr. (47) and Marisol Del Carmen Rodriguez Chavarria (39) with conspiracy to commit visa fraud. Additionally, Friel has been charged with four...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today commented on the Federal Communications Commission’s release of its Depression-era rules to regulate the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Spack previously convicted of eight felonies in Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brandon H. Schnetzka, age 41, of York, Pennsylvania was sentenced today to 18 months incarceration in a federal prison by Senior United States District Court Judge Sylvia Rambo. Schnetzka pleaded guilty to one count of impersonating an officer or employee of the United States on July 30, 2014.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C-- Today, Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Edward Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Management, and Regulatory Oversight, are introducing the Alan Reinstein and Trevor Schaefer Toxic Chemical Protection Act, which provides critical safeguards to protect children and communities from the dangers of toxic chemicals.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: Thank you all for being here this afternoon. I want to address the heinous attacks that occurred against two brave law enforcement officers in Ferguson, Missouri, last night.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: A juried show of twenty-six art quilts created by 22 Florida artists will be on display in Point Reyes National Seashore's Bear Valley Visitor Center on March 11, 2015. The show, titled Piecing Together a Changing Planet, highlights a few of the many ways that America's 407 National Parks are being impacted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced the unsealing of a 77-count superseding indictment charging multiple defendants in central Arkansas with numerous...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In support of the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to diversify our nation’s power supplies, the Energy Department today released a new report looking at the future of wind power through 2050 and the economic benefits that come with a robust wind industry. The report, Wind Vision:...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Frank J. Picone, 49, and Toni A. Picone, 44, both of Falling Waters, West Virginia, were convicted in federal court today after they admitted to tax evasion, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of House Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation today commented on the Federal Communications Commission’s release of its Depression-era rules to regulate the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that DARRELL MORRIS, age 55, of Slidell, was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF") in the aftermath of the BP oil spill.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 12, 2015
News Release: “We are disappointed with the draft of the Data Security and Breach Notification Act released by Reps. Burgess, Blackburn, and Welch. Data breaches can create serious harm to consumers and businesses alike, and this bill does not provide solutions. We have numerous concerns about the weakening of consumer...
