News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Wheatland, Mo., father and son were charged in separate cases today with illegally possessing firearms.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, today released a statement following the Senate passage of H.R. 3819, an extension to authorize federal highway, highway safety, and transit programs through Nov. 20...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining issues related to the implementation of the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act and the disposal of low-level radioactive waste.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, Chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today approved S. 611, The Grassroots Rural and Small Community Water Systems Assistance Act - companion legislation to H.R. 2853, a bill introduced by Subcommittee Vice Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS). S. 611 would help alleviate the financial burden EPA’s drinking water regulations have placed on small and rural drinking water supply systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Charles Sanford, 31, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Chief State’s Attorney Kevin T. Kane today announced that ARTHUR STANLEY, also known as “Wiggs," 26, has been indicted for the July 15, 2011 murder of Keith Washington, 23, of Windsor.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today reviewed six bipartisan proposals aimed at improving broadband deployment for consumers across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Kelvin Fabricio Lemus-Villatoro, of Honduras, pleaded guilty to an Indictment charging him with illegally reentering the United States after having been previously deported, announced Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a markup beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 3 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building for opening statements only. The subcommittee will reconvene on Wednesday, November 4, at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn to consider the following legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Stephen K. Howard, 64 of Auburn, Alabama, pleaded guilty today to three counts of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance (1-4 butanediol) and one count of possession of methamphetamine, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent in Charge Clay Morris and George L. Beck, ...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: Oct. 28, 2015 BOS 2015-202. Employer name: Perry's Maintenance Inc., headquartered in Lockport, New York. Inspection site: 4306 Shimerville Rd., Clarence, N.Y. 14031. Date inspection initiated: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began its inspection on June 11, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES A. BENNETT pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to an Indictment charging him with securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud over 30 investors of more than $5 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Lake County woman pleaded guilty today in federal court to two counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery. TERESA M. KNOWLES, 39, of Volo, Ill., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Frederick J. Kapala to robbing the Chase Bank, in Crystal Lake, Ill. on March 21, 2015, and the Chase Bank, in Grayslake, Ill. on March 24, 2015, as well as attempting to rob the Chase Bank in Johnsburg, Ill., on March 24, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces today that Kyle Adam Kirby (35, Live Oak) has been arrested and charged with possession of child pornography. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. Kirby was arrested today, without incident, at the Live Oak Police Department. His detention hearing is scheduled for Oct. 30, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a markup beginning on Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 3 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building for opening statements only. The subcommittee will reconvene on Wednesday, November 4, at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn to consider the following legislation...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: As a safety enhancement project, the State of Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) plans to replace the existing bridge at Mile 231 with a newly designed bridge with deceleration lanes. In addition, the project includes building walkways adjacent to and below the highway to help minimize pedestrian traffic on the highway.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Miguel Colon, 55, of Woonsocket, pleaded guilty in federal court in Providence to charges of trafficking heroin and cocaine, and to carrying a firearm in furtherance of his drug trafficking activities. Colon was arrested in April 2015 by federal, state and local law enforcement upon...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today reviewed six bipartisan proposals aimed at improving broadband deployment for consumers across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOHN MICHAEL FOWLER, age 51, from Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place, distribution and receipt of images depicting the sexual victimization of children, transmitting interstate communications with the intent to extort, and coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2015
News Release: Eric V. Bartoli, who was indicted in 2003 and was a fugitive for more than a decade, is in custody in the United States, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Cleveland Division of the FBI, and IRS Special Agent in Charge Kathy Enstrom.
