News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raymore, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the armed robbery of United Missouri Bank in Raymore earlier this month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Romeo Joseph Hillman, age 29, of Rockville, Maryland, today to 114 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for distribution of child pornography. Judge Hazel also ordered that upon his release from prison Hillman must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DON FRANCIS, JR., age 45, of Metairie, pled guilty today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today commended the U.S. Senate for passing S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, a bipartisan energy bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner has announced his resignation effective midnight on April 30, 2016. Wagner has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California for six and a half years, and he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Supervisory AUSA for over 17 years before that.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after Senate passage of S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Fiscal Year 2017 budget request. All four NRC commissioners testified on behalf of the budget request.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - During a hearing held today by the Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives to examine The Pricing of Fetal Tissue, Fay Clayton, a lead Democrat witness, told the panel that StemExpress should be asked to turn over their banking records and documents to determine if they have or haven’t profited from the sale of baby body parts.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered remarks at an event hosted by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) on the critical issues home care workers face. In her remarks, Senator...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, invites the public to participate in a free, 45 minute program at the Bessie Smith Cultural Center, 200 East Martin Luther King Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37403, on Saturday, April 30 at 11 am.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing focusing on the need for stronger oversight of high-containment laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged Jory Leedy, 46, of Franklin, Ohio with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse involving a minor in an indictment returned in Cincinnati.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today approved 12 bills, nearly all of which help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation. Today’s votes advance the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to address the opioid epidemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing work to address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation, the Health Subcommittee will vote this afternoon on a number of bipartisan solutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Colleen J. McCarten, age 43, of Coxsackie, New York, was sentenced today to serve 3 years of probation after a jury found her guilty in October of fraudulently obtaining federal and state disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a former Shreveport chiropractor and his son pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling money through an unlawful bitcoin financial scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Conspirators Trafficked High-Quality Methamphetamine Fromthe Southwestern United States to Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto announced that a federal jury sitting in Huntington returned a guilty verdict yesterday in the trial of a Kentucky veteran for defrauding the Veterans Health Administration. Phillip M. Henderson, 50, of Olive Hill, Kentucky, was convicted following a five-day jury trial. The jury required only an hour of deliberations before finding Henderson guilty.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: Centennial Celebration of the National Park Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad, of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that the grand jury has today indicted Ronald Van Den Heuvel (age: 62) of De Pere, his spouse Kelly Van Den Heuvel (age: 52) of De Pere and Paul Piikkila (age: 53), of Appleton on a series of criminal charges based...
