News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: I want to thank the jury for their service during this long trial, and the prosecutors from my office for their hard work in trying this case. My office will thoroughly review the counts that the jury deadlocked on before making a decision about our next steps in this case.
By DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) today introduced H.R. ____, the HHS Data Protection Act. The bipartisan legislation is the result of the committee’s investigation on how to improve cybersecurity at HHS. The legislation will...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK, Twentynine Palms, California -.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Malian National Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Conspiracy to Murder U.S. Diplomat.
By Commerce 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 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: 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 DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Building on the President’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy today awarded more than $5 million to undergraduate and graduate students in pursuit of nuclear engineering degrees and other nuclear science and engineering programs relevant to nuclear energy. The awards include 57 undergraduate scholarships and 33 graduate-level fellowships for students at American colleges and universities.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representatives Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ), and Rick Larsen (D-WA) sent a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation (DOT) urging him to deny Norwegian Air International (NAI) a permit to operate in the United States in violation of our Open Skies Agreement with Norway and the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - As part of events sponsored by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas during National Reentry Week, staff members from the U.S. Attorney’s Office joined Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staff at Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) Fort Worth today to participate in...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 1,216,772 visitors to Haleakalā National Park in 2015 spent over $76 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 905 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of over $91 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Smith, 35, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with eight counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to distribute the Schedule I controlled substance heroin...
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: 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: ALBUQUERQUE - Fidel Naranjo, 27, of Santa Fe, N.M., pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a bank robbery charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Naranjo will be sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - Each year, more than 600,000 citizens return to our communities after serving time in federal and state prisons. Another 11.4 million individuals cycle through local jails. And nearly one in three Americans of working age have had some sort of encounter with the criminal justice system...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: KREMMLING, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public comments on an application for a special recreation permit for a stand-up paddle board race on June 5 on the Colorado River at Rancho Del Rio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of Southwestern Energy Co. has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $450,000 from the company, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court before United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, JOEL DE LA TORRE, 34, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to serve 35 months in federal prison on charges of Making False Statements Concerning Highway Projects, and Aggravated Identity Theft. The defendant was also ordered to serve a 3 year term of supervised release and to make restitution.