News from May 2015
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning unveiled an updated draft of the 21st Century Cures Act, to be considered by the Health Subcommittee tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Five Individuals Charged in Nationwide Identity Theft Scheme.
By EPA 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 DOL Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and U.S. Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) introduced the Freedom from Discrimination in Credit Act (FDCA) of 2015, which would amend the Equal Credit Opportunity Act to prohibit credit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. There is currently no federal law that protects LGBT individuals from credit discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that an indictment was returned yesterday afternoon by a federal grand jury in Scranton charging a New York man with armed bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: A man who illegally bought and transported black rhino horns from Oregon to Iowa pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KIM CASSELL, age 52, of Ruston, pled guilty today to stealing money from Open World Family Services, Inc. (“Open World"). Open World was a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable corporation organized for the purpose of helping students in the greater New Orleans area grow academically.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2015 - Today, the Committee on Natural Resources held an oversight hearing titled "The Obama Administration’s CEQ Recently Revised Draft Guidance for GHG Emissions and the Effects of Climate Change." Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) released the following statement following the hearing.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning unveiled an updated draft of the 21st Century Cures Act, to be considered by the Health Subcommittee tomorrow.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: The Republican bill to fund transportation and housing priorities drastically short-changes job-creating investments critical to hardworking American families, like roads, bridges, and rail systems and access to safe and affordable housing. At the same time, it includes special interest giveaways for the trucking industry and other policy riders that make our roads less safe and our rail system less competitive and meddles foolishly in foreign policy.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee this morning unveiled an updated draft of the 21st Century Cures Act, to be considered by the Health Subcommittee tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Today, during debate on the House Floor of H.R. 36, the “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Act," House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. urged his colleagues to vote in opposition to the measure. Rep. Conyers delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Beckley, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that United States District Judge Irene C. Berger sentenced a former Federal Bureau of Prisons employee to 14 months in federal prison for abusive sexual contact involving a ward. Richard Canterbury, 50, of Lewisburg, West Virginia...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHARLES HUGGINS was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for perpetrating an $8 million investment fraud against dozens of victims across the United States. HUGGINS was convicted on Oct. 10, 2014, following a two-week jury trial before U.S. District Court Judge Sidney H. Stein, who also imposed today’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A North Carolina man was sentenced to 243 months in federal prison, followed by a term of three years supervised release, for attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and possession of firearm by a felon, announced Assistant Attorney General for ...
By Commerce 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 12, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Jeffrey Wojcik, 36, of Cheektowaga, NY, pleaded guilty to obstruction of the mails before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in prison and a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Daniel T. Eckstrom, 32, of Lake Station, Indiana, was sentenced today to 240 years (2,880 months) of imprisonment followed by lifetime supervised release for his nine criminal convictions for Production, Distribution and Possession of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Egyptian national was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for refusing to leave the country twice after being ordered to depart.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
