News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 28-year-old man residing in Victoria has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Sean Patrick Mciver entered a guilty plea Aug. 3, 2015.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WALNUT GROVE, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will close the Delta Cross Channel Gates on Tuesday, Dec. 1, at approximately 12 p.m. The closure is needed to meet the National Marine Fisheries Service Biological Opinion criteria. The gates will remain closed until further notice. Please be advised that the decision to open or close the gates can be made on short notice based on requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago man was arrested today for allegedly threatening to murder students and staff at the University of Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Shane Smith, age 18, of Whitehall, New York, with two counts of illegal possession of a machinegun and one count of possession of an unregistered firearm (silencer), announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Andrew W. Vale, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Albany Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Glen S. Caristinos, 49, of Safety Harbor, Florida, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to five years of probation for failure to pay child support. He was also ordered to pay $117,601.38 in restitution. Caristinos pled guilty on July 3, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) released a 100 + page report on the state of America’s borders last Monday, Nov. 23, while in Phoenix holding a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the increasing threat of heroin and illicit narcotic trafficking across the Arizona border.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Inhofe Statement on EPA's Announced RVO Levels for the RFS
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man was sentenced in federal court in Kansas Monday to a year and a day in prison for operating an Internet fraud scheme that cost more than 200 victims a total of more than $1.6 million, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The defendant was ordered to pay more than $1.6 million in restitution to the victims.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the EPA issuing its final rule setting out the long-delayed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements for the years 2014 through 2016. In the rule, EPA acknowledged some of the challenges with adding ethanol and other renewable fuels to the nation’s transportation fuel supply, and for this reason the agency reduced the required volumes below those originally set out by law in 2007.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology has scheduled a markup on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a legislative package to improve broadband infrastructure and H.R. 1641, the Federal Spectrum Incentive Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Inhofe Statement on President Obama's Speech at International Climate Negotiations
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the EPA issuing its final rule setting out the long-delayed Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements for the years 2014 through 2016. In the rule, EPA acknowledged some of the challenges with adding ethanol and other renewable fuels to the nation’s transportation fuel supply, and for this reason the agency reduced the required volumes below those originally set out by law in 2007.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A previously convicted former stockbroker was charged yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield in connection with an investment scheme which defrauded victims of more than $600,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today commending the Obama administration on the launch of Mission Innovation, which represents a landmark commitment by 20 countries and a group of 28 influential investors to accelerate public and private global clean energy innovation over the next five years...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who was caught with heroin pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Andre Robert Womble, II, 26, pleaded guilty in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives 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 30, 2015
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man who possessed and sold oxycodone was sentenced today to three years and one month in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Booth Goodwin. Tracey Lee Gibson, 36, previously pleaded guilty in August 2015 in federal court in Huntington, West Virginia, to possession with intent to distribute oxycodone.
