News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Federal Officials to Announce Significant Law Enforcement Action Relating to Indian Arts and Crafts Act Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man was sentenced today to 180 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to sell 22 guns without a license, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) has invited European members of the Transatlantic Legislators’ Dialogue to engage with members of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power next Thursday, November 5, 2015, from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The event will be co-chaired by Chairman Jerzy Buzek of the European Parliament.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stephen Gregory Pettiway, 50, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment with setting a fire on Sept. 15, 2015, that damaged three properties in Philadelphia, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, Pettiway started a fire that caused...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA - October is National Domestic Violence Awareness month as proclaimed by Presidential Proclamation. Domestic violence statistics are alarming. Nearly one in four women and one in seven men have suffered severe physical violence by an intimate partner. Besides the physical violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that, on Oct. 27, 2015, Defendant Mao Peng (age: 26) of Shorewood, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $517,265.72 in restitution by United States District Court Judge J.P. Stadtmueller.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a markup for Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The subcommittee will consider Chairman Whitfield’s two resolutions, H.J. Res 71 and H.J. Res 72, disapproving of the two final rules issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for new and existing power plants.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot (R-Ohio), and House Space, Science and Technology Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) introduced the September 11th VCF Reauthorization and U.S. Victims of State Sponsored...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Moussa Sleiman Bitar, aka Justizego, age 36, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is also a citizen of Lebanon, will serve 84 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and false claims as a part of a scheme to use the personal identifiers of deceased individuals to file fraudulent tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Two brothers who conspired to distribute methamphetamine were convicted by a jury on Oct. 28, 2015, after a three-day jury trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reaffirming their stance against reopening the 2014 Farm Bill to further cuts, U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced their commitment to finding a bipartisan solution that ensures crop insurance remains an effective risk management tool for American farmers and ranchers.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Dorinda Folse (front left), area director in Baton Rouge for the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration, and Michael Demouy (front right), manager, Louisiana Associated General Contractors, renewed a commitment to help keep workers safe.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today released the following statement following the election of Congressman Paul D. Ryan, R-Wisconsin, to the position of Speaker of the House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), Thomas E. Bishop, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of Internal Revenue Service -...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Armando Arnoldo Martinez-Tinoco, 36; his brother, Juan Carlos Martinez-Tinoco, 41; and Luis Enrique Flores, 23, all of Mexico; and Ivan De Jesus Jimenez, 30, of La Puente, California, charging them with a conspiracy...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service, in coordination with the Delta Science Program, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Water Resources, have scheduled an annual science...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Christopher Anthony Burkett, 42, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2015, in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, to using a minor to produce child pornography and to distributing child pornography.
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - During the fourth in a series of hearings on the U.S. role and strategy in the Middle East, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, pressed the U.S. Department of State to pursue unilateral sanctions against Iran if the United Nation’s Security ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that HOWARD GREGOR, age 52, a resident of Attica, Ohio, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a two-count Bill of Information charging him with mail and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Monroe County man was sentenced today to 24 months’ imprisonment by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, for his role in a methamphetamine-trafficking ring.
