News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Marcia J. Weber, age 46, of Loveland, Ohio was sentenced today in federal court in Harrisburg by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III to serve 24 months in prison on the charges of conspiracy to commit extortion and threatening to injure a witness.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a statement in response to a letter from the U.S. Treasury Department that the U.S. government is projected to exhaust its extraordinary measures to continue financing the government on or about November 5, 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A criminal bill of information was filed today in federal court in Charlotte, charging a Chinese businessman, Xiwen Huang, 55, of Charlotte, with one count of theft of trade secrets, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose and Special Agent in Charge John A. Strong, of...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to review three bills that would strengthen the Medicare program for seniors. Subcommittee members discussed, H.R. 556, the Prevent Interruptions in Physical Therapy Act authored...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TOMMY BATTLE, 35, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Approximately 1500 people attended landmark ceremony in Yosemite Valley.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-More than 100 volunteers worked to clean up and restore parks around D.C. to launch a new stewardship program in celebration of Rock Creek Park's 125th anniversary this weekend.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement urging Committee Republicans to prioritize hearings that examine the safety of turf fields. Last year, Pallone requested that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) evaluate the potential health risks that crumb rubber poses to those that come into regular contact with turf fields...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Flat Glass, Also Known as Float Glass, is Used for Office and Residential Windows as Well as for Automobile Windshields.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, October 8, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Legislative Proposals to Combat our Nation’s Drug Abuse Crisis." Subcommittee members...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Former Harrison County supervisor Kim Savant, 65, of Gulfport, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden today to sixty months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis, IRS - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Jerome McDuffie and FBI Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway. Savant was also ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on the federal regulation of agriculture biotechnology with perspectives from producers and consumers.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: BRASILIA, Brazil - A 33-year-old Brazilian man suspected of possessing and distributing child pornography was arrested Tuesday by the Brazilian Federal Police (DPF) following a tip from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ Brasilia Attaché Office.
By State Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, applauded House passage of H.R. 3457, the Justice for Victims of Iranian Terrorism Act. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Patrick Meehan (R-PA), prohibits the President from providing Iran with sanctions relief until he certifies to Congress that Iran has paid compensation to American victims of its terrorism who have successfully obtained judgments in U.S. courts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Marie Angel Michaud, formerly Marie Angel Broad, 43, of Rumford, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to three years of probation with six months of home confinement for Social Security fraud. She was also ordered to pay $19,978 in restitution. Michaud pleaded guilty on April 22, 2015.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, released the statement below regarding the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final rule for an ozone standard. The new rule lowers harmful ozone levels from the current standard of 75 parts per billion to a standard of 70 parts per billion.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement urging Committee Republicans to prioritize hearings that examine the safety of turf fields. Last year, Pallone requested that the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) evaluate the potential health risks that crumb rubber poses to those that come into regular contact with turf fields...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two California men have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute large amounts of methamphetamine in southwest Missouri.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) issued the following statement regarding the regulations announced today by the Environmental Protection Agency revising the current National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ground-level ozone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 1, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - A recent survey conducted by national polling firm Anzalone Liszt Grove Research as part of the consent decree between the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the City of Seattle to measure community attitudes towards the Seattle Police Department (SPD) has found the overall approval of SPD improving...
