News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Ronald Rup Jr., 53, of Fairfax, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to a charge of wire fraud. Chief District Judge Christina Reiss released Rup on conditions pending sentencing, which is set for May 10, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Republican and Democratic lawmakers today outlined a series of legislative principles that will help strengthen the retirement security of working families and ensure retirement advisors protect their clients' best interests. The congressional effort is taking place as bipartisan concerns grow over a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Umatilla Tribe to Receive Access to Federal Criminal Databases and Technical Assistance from Department of Justice.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Subcommittees: * Energy and Power (114th Congress) . Background Memo . Participants . Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI). Chairman Jerzy Buzek of the European Parliament. Members of the Energy and Power Subcommittee. Members of the European Parliament. Opening Statement of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JERROD HALL, also known as “Slime," 22, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 12 months and one day of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for his role in a crack cocaine trafficking ring.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held an investigative hearing examining the failed Obamacare CO-OPs and the $2.4 billion in insurance loans paid out. To date, 12 of the original 23 CO-OPs have closed, bringing the total cost to taxpayers at more than $1.23 billion.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Physicists at JILA have made their "quantum crystal" of ultracold molecules more valuable than ever by packing about five times more molecules into it. The denser crystal will help scientists unlock the secrets of magnets and other, more exotic materials.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on U.S. wildfire budgetary impacts and threats to natural resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Racketeering Included Massive No Fault Automobile Insurance Fraud Scheme, Multiple Securities Fraud Schemes, Money Laundering, and Operating Illegal Gambling Businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Yesterday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida hosted a symposium to combat cyber crimes with participation from high ranking officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. Secret Service, as well as approximately eighty representatives from some of the district’s largest companies, hospitals and academic institutions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Urban fourth graders from Lonsdale Elementary School recently completed their visits to the Obed Wild and Scenic River in late October. "Urban Kids Rock the Obed" was the title of the Ticket to Ride proposal that was awarded to the park this spring. The Obed reached out to a new audience of urban youth, and introduced this wild and scenic park through healthy outdoor recreation and curriculum-based park education programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: ***Media Advisory***. CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin, joined by Charleston Police Chief Brent Webster, Charleston Fire Department Captain Mark Strickland, Kanawha-Charleston Health Department Executive Director/Health Officer Dr. Michael Brumage, and other local officials will...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A nurse pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing pain medication from patients in a nursing care facility in Worcester. Joanna Dacri, 34, of Auburn, Mass., pleaded guilty to one count of acquiring and obtaining Oxycodone by deception. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman scheduled sentencing Jan. 29, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Naeem Mahmood Kohli, 61, a medical doctor from Effingham, Illinois, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $10,500 in fines as well as $700 in special assessments, to be followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Woman Who Held Disabled Adults Captive in Subhuman Conditions Sentenced to Life Plus 80 Years in Prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) resigned as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The Republican Steering Committee will meet to determine the next chairman of the full committee. In the interim, Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, JAIME LEONARD SMITH, 35, of Morehead City, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to Perjury.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced the creation of a Medicaid Task Force to strengthen and sustain the critical program for the nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Upton announced that Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY) will chair the Republican task force. Upton’s announcement builds upon the Health Subcommittee’s substantial legislative efforts over the last several months.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-On Tuesday, a federal jury found Phillip Lamont Morgan, 40, guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. United States District Court Judge James H. Payne will sentence Morgan on Jan. 17, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today voted to include a number of important auto safety provisions as part of the House’s consideration of the DRIVE Act. The amendment, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), is the result of the committee’s extensive work to reform the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and keep families safe on American roads.
