News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office announced today the results of the April 2016 Federal Grand Jury.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Information: Headquartered in Richmond, Virginia - with facilities in Illinois, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Texas - Alfa Laval has 35 employees working in Houston and approximately 2,000 employees nationwide. The company has 15 business days from receipt of its citations to comply, request an informal conference with OSHA's area director, or contest the citations and penalties before the independent Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: A Richfield Township man pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally dealing firearms after he sold approximately 300 firearms over a three-year period, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Donald J. Soranno, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF’s Columbus Field Division.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This morning, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined Bill Hemmer on Fox News Channel’s America’s Newsroom to discuss the fight against ISIS after his recent trip to the Middle East. Video and key excerpts below.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: An illegal alien who possessed a firearm was sentenced yesterday to one year in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Today, senior Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee and the chairs of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, and the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) issued a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking the Department of Justice to review the impact of recently implanted voting restrictions across the country on primary elections.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: HOLDREGE, Neb. - After two workers suffered partial amputations of their index fingers in separate incidents in October 2015, federal investigators found numerous machines lacked safety guards at the Holdrege facility of Becton, Dickinson and Company, a global medical technology company.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -In celebration of National Park Week, Grand Teton National Park will have free entrance April 16-April 24, and will host various interpretive and educational activities including a Junior Ranger Day on Saturday, April 23.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s efforts to combat the Zika virus, the House of Representatives today passed S. 2512, the Adding Zika Virus to the FDA Priority Review Voucher Program Act. The legislation will add the virus to the list of tropical diseases under the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - United States District Judge Dale A. Drozd sentenced Shane Paul Young, 45, of Fresno, on Monday to 30 years in federal prison for receipt and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Following a one-day trial yesterday before U.S. District Judge John McBryde, a federal jury convicted Cleto Tarin, 52, most recently of the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and Hector Saldivar, 33, of Wichita Falls, Texas, each on one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: A twice convicted felon who possessed three stolen weapons was sentenced today to more than four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law (RRCAL) Henry C. “Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA) introduced H.R. 4899, the Restoring Statutory Rights Act of 2016 , legislation to ensure that state, federal, and constitutional rights of all Americans are enforceable.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2016
News Release: An oil and gas lease sale set for early May is being moved to a different location in Billings than originally scheduled. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold the sale at the Northern Hotel in downtown Billings, instead of at the Montana/Dakotas State Office on Southgate Drive as previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2016
News Release: Keith Harris, 60, of St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced on April 8, 2016, in federal court, for his role as being courier for a drug distribution organization that funneled cocaine from Houston, Texas, to the Metro-East area, between April 2011 and February 2013, the Acting United States Attorney for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2016
News Release: ALPINE, Texas - In Pecos yesterday afternoon, 45-year-old Claudio Marques Martinez, Jr., was sentenced to 262 months in federal prison followed by eight years of supervised release for conspiring to transport marijuana from the Big Bend area to Hobbs, NM, for further distribution announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and DEA Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, El Paso Division.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., today announced that the hearing scheduled to examine options for addressing the continuing lack of reliable emergency medical transportation for the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska will start at 9:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 11, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denied former Lackawanna County Commissioner Robert C. Cordaro’s latest appeal regarding his 2011 conviction on multiple public corruption charges.
