News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Yashica Tucker also ordered to pay $196,784 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, United States District Judge Louise Flanagan sentenced KIMBERLY NICOLE TORRES, 40, of Wendell, North Carolina to 52 months imprisonment; 3 years supervised release, and $104,624 restitution. On April 16, 2015, TORRES...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Leonard Nathaniel Peragine, Jr., has been arraigned on federal charges of using the internet to entice a child for sexual activity, and distributing and possessing child pornography. Peragine was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 27, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Following three days of debate, during which over 100 amendments were considered, the U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan, multi-year surface transportation bill to reauthorize and reform federal highway, transit, and highway safety programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the owners of a head shop and liquor store in Queen City, Mo., were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a mail fraud conspiracy related to the distribution of synthetic marijuana, commonly referred to as K2.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released a scorecard assigning letter grades to federal agencies on their implementation of the bipartisan Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), enacted in December 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Four Columbus men pleaded guilty to murder in connection to a racketeering case involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) announced that the Committee’s Democratic Members in the coming weeks will host “Trading Views: Real Debates on Key Issues in TPP" - a series of in-depth hearings on the key issues in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Democrats attempted to improve a controversial mental health bill, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act, introduced by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) that further stigmatizes mental illness and threatens the rights and protections guaranteed to patients.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Alonzo Outten, 35, of Portsmouth, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for his leadership and involvement in a heroin trafficking operation that was responsible for the distribution of between 30 and 90 kilograms of heroin with an estimated street value between $1.5 and $4.5 million dollars.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led by full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), offered legislation that would address mental health reform in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today advanced seven bills to be next considered by full committee. Six of the bills were approved by voice vote. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act passed by a vote of 18 to 12.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Members of the newly formed Affordable Drug Pricing Task Force will hold a press conference announcing meaningful action to combat the skyrocketing costs of pharmaceuticals.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A federal jury sitting in Laredo convicted two Laredoans guilty of being involved in a conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of 1,000 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The verdicts against Rafael Ortega aka Tio, 57, and Baltazar Ibarra Cardona aka Balta, 55, were returned last night following a three-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Gustavo Collado Rodriguez, 20, and David Angel Prieto, 22, both of Caldwell, Idaho, were sentenced today for unlawful possession of a pistol and a sawed-off shotgun, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge sentenced Rodriguez to 60 months in prison, and sentenced Prieto to 36 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Both defendants pleaded guilty on Aug. 11, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, led by full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX), offered legislation that would address mental health reform in a comprehensive and meaningful way.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Inhofe Holds 11 Democrats Accountable for Blocking Debate on WOTUS, Urges Support for CRA on WOTUS Rule
By EPA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today advanced seven bills to be next considered by full committee. Six of the bills were approved by voice vote. H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act passed by a vote of 18 to 12.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. And I’d like to welcome today’s witnesses to the Agriculture Committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 4, 2015
News Release: Good Morning. Thank you for yielding, Mr. Chairman.
