News from April 2016
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD/KEY WEST, Fla.: Americans are encouraged to get out and #FindYourPark during National Park Week, which runs April 16 through April 24. All National Park Service entrance fees will be waived for the week.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Earlier this week, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) pressed EPA administrator Gina McCarthy to provide legal justification for the agency’s proposed regulation outlawing the modification of vehicles to be used for racing. Today, EPA announced that they have dropped their proposed regulations on racing vehicle modifications.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s (R-IL) H.R. 2666, the No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act by a vote of 241-173. The legislation would prohibit the FCC...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Earlier this week, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) pressed EPA administrator Gina McCarthy to provide legal justification for the agency’s proposed regulation outlawing the modification of vehicles to be used for racing. Today, EPA announced that they have dropped their proposed regulations on racing vehicle modifications.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Pay Nearly $1.7 Million in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston to pay $125 million to resolve criminal and civil liability arising from the illegal promotion of various drugs.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today voiced his opposition during House floor debate to H.R. 2666, the deceptively named “No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Steven F. Pagliarini, 57, Executive Vice-President and Treasurer of Central Landscaping Construction Company, located in Johnston, R.I., and Executive Vice-President of Central Nurseries, Inc., located in Chepachet and Johnston, R.I., was sentenced today to 3 years probation for orchestrating...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Terry James Morris, age 79, of West Rancho Dominguez, California, today to eight years in prison followed by four years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute cocaine and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - John W. Caltabiano, Jr., age 49, of Catskill, New York, was sentenced today to serve 57 months in prison after a jury found him guilty in October of fraudulently obtaining federal and state disability benefits. He was immediately taken into custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Father and daughter, who filed fraudulent claims against the Gulf Coast Claims Facility for lost income purportedly suffered as a result of the oil spill, pled guilty to mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1341and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Mitchell Narada Kelly, a/k/a "Duncey", age 36, of Lancaster County, South Carolina was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for possession with the intent to distribute and distribution of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A married couple has been sentenced to federal prison for crimes they committed in connection to the fatal shooting of an off-duty Memphis Police officer. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Three individuals who conspired to fraudulently obtain controlled substances and distribute hydrocodone and carisoprodol were recently sentenced in federal court by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today voiced his opposition during House floor debate to H.R. 2666, the deceptively named “No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: MIAMI - Donavan Antwan Daniels, 36, of Lakeland, Florida, has pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of five years, up to 40 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Howard Hoffman, 53, formerly of Richmond, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISONBURG - A former regional chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Harrisonburg for charges involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - After a four-day trial, a federal jury found Alexandro Gerandino-Aracena, 39, of the Dominican Republic, and Ricardo Cardona, 35, of Puerto Rico, guilty of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and various firearms possession charges, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 15, 2016
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Pipestone National Monument announces the second presentation of a "Find Your Park" film series, on April 23, 2016, from 3:00pm to 4:00pm. April's film will highlight Gulf Islands National Seashore. Gulf Islands is a place of myriad riches - blue-green, sparkling waters, magnificent white...
