News from April 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-Wash.) released letters from senior military officials this morning stating clearly that despite Republican claims, conservation activities to protect...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that VLADIMIR TSASTSIN was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to more than seven years in prison for perpetrating a massive internet fraud scheme by infecting more than four million computers in over 100...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An Atlanta man pleaded guilty today to his role in a mail theft and counterfeit check cashing conspiracy, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. DeAndre Smith, 22, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit postal theft and making and uttering counterfeit securities.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) responded today to the alarming findings by the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of the Inspector General. The watchdog’s report revealed that the...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below following the introduction of the bipartisan Water Resources Development Act of 2016. This legislation will provide important flood protection, restore vulnerable ecosystems, and maintain ports and navigation routes across the State of California.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Monday, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee voted to not recommend approval of a potentially promising therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The committee voted to not approve, despite compelling testimony at its meeting from dozens of parents, medical experts and patients’ groups in favor of approving the therapy.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), today sent letters to AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, Sprint, and T-Mobile requesting a briefing on the vulnerabilities of the Signaling System 7 (SS7).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Genfry Martinez, 20, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with one count of possession with intent to distribute the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A lawsuit was filed yesterday against John Longacre, his companies, and the South Philadelphia Tap Room at 1509 Mifflin Street, which he owns, for violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA"), announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The lawsuit is the...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 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 Anthony J. Munchak’s latest appeal regarding his 2011 conviction on multiple public corruption charges.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: FAIRBANKS, AK -- At the Rural Energy Conference in Fairbanks, AK, today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced 13 recipients of Remote Alaska Communities Energy Efficiency (RACEE) technical assistance, and released its “Sustainable Energy Solutions for Rural Alaska" report.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: MCCOOK, Neb. -- The Bureau of Reclamation has announced the availability of the Final Environmental Assessment (EA) for Box Butte Dam Safety of Dams Corrective Action. Reclamation prepared the Final EA to evaluate the environmental consequences of undertaking corrective actions at Box Butte Dam, located in Dawes County, in order to reduce the risk of dam failure to satisfactory levels.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Whether you're using a landline or cell phone, there's a good chance that the signal spends at least some time traveling over fiber-optic cables. To ensure that the information gets where it needs to go, and to help researchers find better ways to ferry this information around, it's necessary to reliably measure radiation power through these fibers.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), today sent letters to AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink, Frontier, Sprint, and T-Mobile requesting a briefing on the vulnerabilities of the Signaling System 7 (SS7).
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at a Full Committee Markup of 22 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Mark Darnell Peeples, age 31, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and to aggravated identity theft. Peeples is the fourth defendant to plead guilty to a scheme in which the defendants deposited counterfeit checks, drawn on the accounts of identity theft victims, into bank accounts opened by the defendants in the name of shell companies. The defendants then withdrew the funds before the fraud could be detected.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - James Richard Reeves, 47, of Tucson, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., for his conviction on drug trafficking charges. Reeves was sentenced to 120 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Aaron Philbert arrested while on federal supervised release on previous drug trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 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 Anthony J. Munchak’s latest appeal regarding his 2011 conviction on multiple public corruption charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: James Bednarcyk, 28, of Claremont, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison by the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire after pleading guilty to one count of possessing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
