News from May 2015
By State Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a Committee hearing to examine the persecution of religious minorities in the Middle East at the hands of ISIS. The hearing is entitled “Ancient Communities Under Attack: ISIS’s War on Religious Minorities.".
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - 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 Finance...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, underscored the importance of investing in strategic, flexible, and comprehensive technology investments to meet our nation’s border security needs during today’s committee hearing, “Securing the Southwest Border: Fencing, Infrastructure, and Technology Force Multipliers.".
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of theft of government property and false statements to retain Supplemental Security Income Benefits, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that CVS Health has agreed to pay $22 million to resolve allegations that two of its retail stores in the City of Sanford distributed controlled substances based on prescriptions that had not been issued for legitimate medical purposes...
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Good afternoon and welcome. Today, we continue our border series hearings with an examination of the Department of Homeland Security’s force multipliers in securing our border: fencing, tactical infrastructure and technology. Through our previous hearings, we have learned that each border sector across...
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today continued work on its Architecture of Abundance energy legislation with a review of “Discussion Drafts Addressing Hydropower Regulatory Modernization and FERC Process Coordination under the Natural Gas Act." The drafts are part of the bill’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Monique Christine Martinez, 32, of Nampa, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Martinez was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 13, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I’d like to congratulate Chairman Diaz-Balart and Ranking Member Price in their new roles as chairman and ranking member of the subcommittee, and I thank them and full committee Chairman Rogers for their work. Last night we saw yet another terrible train incident, with an...
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today continued work on its Architecture of Abundance energy legislation with a review of “Discussion Drafts Addressing Hydropower Regulatory Modernization and FERC Process Coordination under the Natural Gas Act." The drafts are part of the bill’s...
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the administration’s work that could remove the United States from its oversight role of critical Internet functions. Members heard from stakeholders to learn where the transition stands and the effects it may have on the future of the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man and woman have been convicted by a federal trial jury of their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and of illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five Essex County, New Jersey, men were arraigned today on charges they ran an illegal drug mill that distributed at least one kilogram of heroin, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today continued work on its Architecture of Abundance energy legislation with a review of “Discussion Drafts Addressing Hydropower Regulatory Modernization and FERC Process Coordination under the Natural Gas Act." The drafts are part of the bill’s...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: A former Controller of a Dubuque company, who embezzled more $360,000, was sentenced on Monday, May 11, 2015, to more than two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On May 11, 2015, Terance Taylor Prigge, 54, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 26.6 years’ imprisonment followed by 10 years’ supervised release. Prigge was convicted by a federal jury on Feb. 12, 2015, of five felony charges that included conspiracy to...
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the administration’s work that could remove the United States from its oversight role of critical Internet functions. Members heard from stakeholders to learn where the transition stands and the effects it may have on the future of the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Ivan Rosario, 20, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin, was sentenced to 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: DENVER - David Nunez-Hernandez, age 21, of Denver, Colorado, has been ordered held without bond following his arrest on the charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and ATF Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Luke Franey announced. Nunez-Hernandez was first arrested ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Pamela Denise Robtoy, 55, Belleville, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty to Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud in a Scheme to Defraud and Embezzle from the U.S. Marshals Survivors Benefit Fund and The BackStoppers, Inc., the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced...
