News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Roman I. Trujillo, 28, a non-Indian man residing in Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court to burglarizing two homes in Isleta Pueblo, N.M., under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote bipartisan legislation to reform federal sentencing laws. The Sentencing Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 3713) - authored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), Crime, Terrorism, Homeland ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Fourth Defendant to Be Sentenced in Bribery Scheme Involving Tinker Air Force Base and Corpus Christi Army Depot.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pled guilty and has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day imprisonment, followed by 10 years supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: “H.R. 3713, the ‘Sentencing Reform Act,’ responds to the growing recognition, in our states and now in Congress, that we must make meaningful reforms to various aspects of our criminal justice system - particularly mandatory minimum sentencing.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: INTERNATIONAL FALLS, MN: Dr. Steve Windels, Wildlife Biologist at Voyageurs National Park, is the recipient of the 2014 National Park Service's Director's Award for Natural Resource Research.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Anchorage - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today generated $788,680 at an oil and gas lease sale from the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A). The State of Alaska will receive 50 percent of the bid receipts, or $394,340.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today a renewed strategy for reducing and preventing violent crime in the Middle District of Pennsylvania focusing on the Harrisburg, York, Wilkes-Barre and Williamsport areas. Federal, state and local...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Randy Metcalf, age 40, from Dubuque, Iowa, has been charged with committing a hate crime by causing bodily injury to a person because of that person’s race. The charges are contained in a Complaint unsealed yesterday in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Voyeurism suspect who fled to Grand Canyon will serve four years and register as a sex offender.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with a practice in Rockville Centre, New York, was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approved the Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015, which was introduced by Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) earlier this year. The bipartisan legislation would begin the phase out of plastic microbeads from personal care products on July 1, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today unanimously passed S. 611, the Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS) and Ranking Minority...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Hearing Establishes No Reason for Changes to Popular, Successful Program.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), on Tuesday continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members heard from all five FCC commissioners and raised questions on many of the issues before the commission, focusing on process and the effect the FCC’s actions have on innovation, job creation, and consumer access to information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Yesterday afternoon a federal grand jury filed a four-count indictment charging Albuquerque resident Davon Lymon, 34, with violating the federal firearms laws, announced U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez, Special Agent in Charge Thomas G. Atteberry of the Phoenix Field Division of ATF and Chief Gorden Eden, Jr., of the Albuquerque Police Department (APD).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, Gregory Haanstad, announced today that the United States has filed a criminal information charging Deaconess Home Health, Inc. and its owner, Lazarus Bonilla, with committing health care fraud against the Wisconsin Medicaid Program.
