News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Admits Failing to Pay $125,000 in Income Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Defendant was One of Twenty-Nine Charged in February 2014 with Trafficking Methamphetamine in San Juan County.
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on House passage of legislation that would severely restrict a woman’s constitutionally protected access to reproductive care.
By US DOT Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Chairman Jeff Denham (R-CA) released the following joint statement on last night’s Amtrak derailment near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that a mother and son pled guilty before United States District Judge Irene C. Berger in Beckley. Tricia Diane Arbaugh, 43, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, pled guilty to traveling in interstate commerce to facilitate unlawful activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - David Fili, Jr., 45 of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, was charged today by information with 10 counts of wire fraud and two counts of bank fraud in a $9.7 million scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: In Midland this afternoon, 28-year-old Fabian Barrios of El Paso, TX, faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to robbing a bank in Midland announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, El Paso Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lebanon, Mo., woman who was originally convicted of her role in a sex trafficking conspiracy was indicted by a federal grand jury today for failing to register as a sex offender.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) continued their series of border security hearings on Wednesday. The hearing, titled “Securing the Border: Fencing, Infrastructure and Technology Force Multipliers," provided committee members with information on what further steps and resources are needed to help better secure our borders.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Best known for its active volcanoes and stunning landscapes, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park will this weekend welcome hundreds of scientists, students and Hawaiian cultural practitioners to the BioBlitz and Biodiversity & Cultural Festival.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Law enforcement training, body camera grants available.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former Buffalo, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for tax evasion and for failing to file tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.), Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), and House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Ranking Member...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 338-88 the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048 ). This bipartisan bill - introduced by Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Appropriations Democrats, led by Philadelphia Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Rep. David Price (D-NC), Ranking Democrat of the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development (T-HUD) Subcommittee, and Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat of the Appropriations Committee, today offered an amendment during full Committee markup of the 2016 T-HUD bill to provide Amtrak the full $2.45 billion in funding requested in President Obama’s budget.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 45-year-old Tobyhanna man pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, to producing child pornography.
By State Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine U.S. economic engagement in Asia. The hearing is entitled “Advancing U.S. Economic Interests in Asia.".
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A report released today from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office raises concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability in the administration’s spending on Medicaid demonstration programs. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization today admitted conspiring to distribute heroin in Ocean and Monmouth counties and elsewhere in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A report released today from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office raises concerns about the lack of transparency and accountability in the administration’s spending on Medicaid demonstration programs. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate...
