News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that ELLIOT PEREZ, 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 210 months of imprisonment...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Vernal, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Vernal Field Office is hosting a public learning session to provide information about the final greater sage-grouse conservation plan for Utah public lands.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: On Monday, October 26 rangers responded to a report of a fatality at Olympic Hot Springs in the Elwha Valley of Olympic National Park. Rangers found the individual, Bruce Gunderson, deceased in a hot spring pool.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A Natick man pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with selling heroin and white heroin - heroin laced with fentanyl and/or straight fentanyl - to addicts, one of whom ultimately died after overdosing.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that civil judgment has been entered against Aurelio Munoz-Escalante, d/b/a Black Hills Thinning, of Rapid City, South Dakota, and Sergio Munoz-Escalante, d/b/a SM Logging & Services, of Hermosa, South Dakota, in the amounts of $759,999.12 and $458,374.02, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Stacey Pomrenke Charged in 15-Count Federal Indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Stephanie Lamarque and Kathleen A. Lynch, who are handling the case, stated that on August 6, 2012, law enforcement officers executed a search warrant at the 2502 Falls Street residence of the defendant. Officers recovered a computer being used by Scouten. A subsequent forensic...
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding recent U.S. Navy exercises near disputed areas in the South China Sea...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, by a vote of 74 to 21, the Senate approved the bipartisan Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 (S. 754), which encourages the sharing of cyber threat information among and between the private sector and federal government. Two of the bill’s major provisions were based...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a father and son from Wrangell, Alaska were arraigned and pled guilty in Juneau federal court to charges related to violations of the Lacey Act while fishing for halibut in the Gulf of Alaska.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt on the costs of newly-eligible adults in Medicaid. The CMS Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JASON SCOTT, 37, of Montville, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 13 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for possessing several firearms as a convicted felon.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittees on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), have scheduled a joint hearing for Tuesday, Nov. 3, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the EU Safe Harbor Decision and Impacts for Transatlantic Data Flows."
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on the Judiciary reported H.R. 2834, a bill to ostensibly codify existing environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, as a single title in the U.S. Code. While the bill is supposed to be purely technical in nature, H.R. 2834 goes beyond that and makes serious changes to the Clean Air Act, which falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on the Judiciary reported H.R. 2834, a bill to ostensibly codify existing environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, as a single title in the U.S. Code. While the bill is supposed to be purely technical in nature, H.R. 2834 goes beyond that and makes serious changes to the Clean Air Act, which falls squarely within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Energy and Commerce.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Republican oversight leaders in the Senate and House sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt asking for information on the agency’s plans to update its Fraud Prevention System (FPS), a program that uses predictive analytics...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: DEA, Utah Attorney General’s Office Investigation Results in Guilty Plea
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: POCATELLO - Matthew G. Burgett, 24, of Blackfoot, Idaho, was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Pocatello for the unlawful possession of firearms in violation of 18 U.S.C. Sections 922(g)(4) and 924(a)(2), U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt on the costs of newly-eligible adults in Medicaid. The CMS Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Bank Robbery was sentenced on Oct. 26, 2015 by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
