News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A criminal defense attorney in Houston has been ordered to prison for 15 years following his convictions on 18 counts to include conspiracy, obstruction of justice, money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering and failure to file tax returns, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Abraham Moses Fisch, 56, was convicted by a jury May 27, 2015, following a 15-day trial and approximately 14 hours of deliberations.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Inhofe, 48 Senators File CRAs Against Obama's Carbon Mandates
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: A Port St. Lucie resident was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by one year of supervised release for preparing false tax returns for himself and his clients. The defendant was also ordered to pay joint and several restitution in the amount of $558,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after House and Senate leaders reached a budget agreement that prevents substantial Medicare premium increases for approximately 16 million seniors...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) expressed disgust upon the release of a new video. According to Life News, “This latest video catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling the intact heads of aborted babies for research." House Speaker John Boehner appointed Blackburn last week to chair the select panel to investigate the handling of infant lives.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement in response to two higher education regulations the administration finalized earlier today...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Thomas S. Jackson (58, Longwood) guilty of one count of conspiracy and three counts of bribery of an agent of a local government receiving federal funds. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison for the conspiracy count and up to 10 years’ imprisonment for each bribery count. His sentencing hearing has been set for Jan. 11, 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 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 U.S. wildfire budgetary impacts and threats to natural resources.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after House and Senate leaders reached a budget agreement that prevents substantial Medicare premium increases for approximately 16 million seniors...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today after House and Senate leaders reached a budget agreement that prevents substantial Medicare premium increases for approximately 16 million seniors...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A local woman has been ordered to prison for nearly 20 years following her conviction of trafficking liquid methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Brenda Rodriguez-Garcia, 23, of Laredo, following a two-day trial on June 30, 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing on ways to reform the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act and improve career and technical education (CTE) to better serve students and meet the needs of a 21st century economy.
By DOE 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 Commerce 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 DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- On Friday October 23rd, bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy asking the agency to investigate the safety of recycled rubber “crumbs" used in synthetic turf fields. NBC News reported on the Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig R. Gestring, who is handling the case, stated that the defendant posted online threats to kill President Obama in June 2014. Specifically, Correa posted a message on Twitter directed to President Barack Obama in which the defendant wrote “Im coming to watch you die." The defendant was interviewed shortly after posting the threats and told a Secret Service Agent that the President was “evil" and that he had to “die.".
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the impact of the Federal Communications Commission’s implementation of utility style regulation of the Internet on consumers, jobs, and investment. The hearing continued the subcommittee’s work to promote an Internet ecosystem where consumers have strong protections online without harming their access to innovative new products and services.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Costly Failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP Insurance...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the impact of the Federal Communications Commission’s implementation of utility style regulation of the Internet on consumers, jobs, and investment. The hearing continued the subcommittee’s work to promote an Internet ecosystem where consumers have strong protections online without harming their access to innovative new products and services.
