News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Defendant charged with being a Member of Major Drug Trafficking Organization that Imported Large Quantities of Cocaine, Marijuana and Heroin from Mexico for Distribution in New Mexico and Elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced Douglas Scheels (43, Sanford) to 50 years in federal prison for producing and receiving child pornography. He pleaded guilty on June 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Eastern District of Michigan. Monday, Nov. 16, 2015. A physician who practiced in Warren, Michigan, was sentenced to 84 months in prison today for writing prescriptions for oxycodone and other controlled medications without medical justification, and for...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved three more public health bills. The bills collectively seek to boost mental health care, combat the rise in prenatal opioid abuse, and bring consistency to pharmaceutical reviews while protecting manufacturing jobs.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent another letter to Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) regarding a major encroachment on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s jurisdiction. For a second time, he called attention to the Judiciary Committee Republicans’ attempt to use a typically non-controversial bill to make serious changes to the Clean Air Act under the guise of “streamlining environmental statutes."
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved three more public health bills. The bills collectively seek to boost mental health care, combat the rise in prenatal opioid abuse, and bring consistency to pharmaceutical reviews while protecting manufacturing jobs.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved legislation to increase transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission. H.R. 2583, the FCC Process Reform Act of 2015, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), passed the House by a voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has reached a landmark global settlement with Education Management Corp. (EDMC), the second-largest for-profit education company in the country, the Department of Justice announced today. The $95.5 million settlement resolves allegations that EDMC violated federal and state False Claims Act (FCA) provisions by falsely certifying that it was in compliance with Title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) and parallel state statutes.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved legislation to increase transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission. H.R. 2583, the FCC Process Reform Act of 2015, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), passed the House by a voice vote.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the refugee crisis in Syria...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved legislation to increase transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission. H.R. 2583, the FCC Process Reform Act of 2015, authored by Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), passed the House by a voice vote.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Everyone is invited to experience a bold new perspective on the beauty of Hawai‘i through innovative digital artist Dr. Jean-René Leblanc, the artist in residence at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National for December 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Emily Allen (619) 546-9738 or Mark Conover (619) 546-6763.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said this Monday regarding the United States accepting Syrian refugees...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent another letter to Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) regarding a major encroachment on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s jurisdiction. For a second time, he called attention to the Judiciary Committee Republicans’ attempt to use a typically non-controversial bill to make serious changes to the Clean Air Act under the guise of “streamlining environmental statutes."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Filip Caruso, 50, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Edwin Hamel, 59, of Milford, Maine pleaded guilty today U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute bath salts and to being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent another letter to Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) regarding a major encroachment on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s jurisdiction. For a second time, he called attention to the Judiciary Committee Republicans’ attempt to use a typically non-controversial bill to make serious changes to the Clean Air Act under the guise of “streamlining environmental statutes."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: Event dates: Saturday and Sunday December 5 and 6, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals were sentenced in federal court today for heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
