News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that David Brooks (44, Ohio) has pleaded guilty to mail fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office regarding the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s work to transition oversight of the Domain Name system to the global internet community.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Paleontology. The partial jaw of a fossil fish not known to exist in the Late Triassic era. (about 220 million years ago) in North America was found by a citizen scientist. at Petrified Forest this summer. It's a long-snouted fish closely related to. the genus Saurichthys. Other jaw parts had been found...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Diego Alejandro Alcantar-Armenta, 29, and Daniel Valdenegro-Zafiro, 24, of Elko, Nevada, and Jose Antonio Diaz-Juarez, 44, of Grandview, Idaho, were indicted on September 9, 2015, by a federal grand jury in Boise for one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and two counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. An initial appearance was held on Sept. 18, 2015, for all of the defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake, sentenced Nishon Rainner, age 31, of Woodlawn, Maryland, today to 100 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of guns and ammunition. Chief Judge Blake also sentenced Rainner to 18 months in prison, consecutive to the sentence on his gun conviction, for violation of his supervised release on a previous federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NISIKA WEST, age 36, of Kenner, was charged today in a six-count Indictment with theft of public money and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Philadelphia - Michael Katzin, was charged today by superseding indictment with one count of conspiracy to commit pharmacy burglary, one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute controlled substances, one count of pharmacy burglary, and one count of possession with the intent to distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Marie P. Grisanti, who is handling the case, stated that Hassan owned and operated the Broadway Mart & Deli located at 1358 Broadway Street in Buffalo. From April 2011 to Aug. 30, 2012, the defendant knowingly purchased food stamp benefits for less than their full value for cash.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: Three individuals were convicted in federal court for committing armed robberies in Miami, Florida.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., this week sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting more information regarding USDA’s preparedness efforts during the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreak.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announces that fifteen individuals were sentenced for their involvement in an international cocaine trafficking organization. All 16 were part of the same drug trafficking organization operating in the Elizabethtown and Bladen County area. The organization was importing the cocaine from Jamaica for distribution.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT.-Glacier National Park Rangers removed a food-conditioned black bear from the population on Thursday, September 17 near Lake McDonald Lodge. This action was necessary to ensure public safety.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, by a vote of 241 - 187. This bill would invest $235 million in Federally Qualified Health Centers in support of women’s health care, a policy championed by committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 21.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Earlier this week, Elijah Loren Arthur, Sr., 34, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was found guilty by a federal jury of first-degree murder and using a firearm in a crime of violence resulting in death. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan from Sept. 1-16, 2015. The defendant is being held after trial. Sentencing is set before Judge Logan on Nov. 30, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3134, the Defund Planned Parenthood Act, by a vote of 241 - 187. This bill would invest $235 million in Federally Qualified Health Centers in support of women’s health care, a policy championed by committee member Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC).
By EPA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today commented on a report from the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office regarding the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s work to transition oversight of the Domain Name system to the global internet community.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing to consider four more commonsense bills to strengthen the Medicaid program. The subcommittee last week discussed six additional bills in its ongoing commitment to strengthen Medicaid.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 25,000 metric tons of soybean oil for delivery to Egypt during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, Energy and Commerce Democrats fought back against yet another Republican attempt to deprive women across the country of life-saving preventative services by slashing Planned Parenthood funding and, this time, recklessly threatening to shut down the federal government in the process.
