News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Five defendants have pleaded guilty to kidnapping, cocaine and heroin distribution, and/or firearm offenses in a case related to the attempted kidnapping of an individual because of an unpaid drug debt. Today, Melissa Trevino, 23, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today highlighted some of the key environmental accomplishments of the Obama administration over the last eight years in his statement submitted for the record for a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Program Implementation:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Criminal Complaint Filed Against Jarvis Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Lawrence Brinkley, age 51, of Wilmington, was sentenced on Dec. 2, 2016, by U. S. District Court Judge Richard G. Andrews to 48 months of imprisonment and three years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement on the status of efforts to complete reauthorization of child nutrition programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Solon Mills man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ranking Members Bobby Scott (D-VA), Sander Levin (D-MI), and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) of the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce respectively, made the following joint statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order to delay the consideration of House v. Burwell...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Looking for a unique gift idea for the holidays? A Rocky Mountain National Park Annual Pass is a great gift for that person who enjoys visiting the park or would like to visit more often.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: NEW BERN - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court on December 6, 2016, United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced HUBERTO ESPINDOLA-SOTO, 37, from La Grange, N.C., to 146 months in prison and 5 years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The United States announces that it has settled allegations under the False Claims Act with Eyeland Optical Centers, a chain of eye care centers in Pennsylvania. The settlement resolves allegations that Eyeland had billed Medicaid for more than four lenses per year, in violation of Pennsylvania’s Medicaid regulations, and retained those payments even once it became aware that it had done so. Eyeland has agreed to pay $135,328.56 to resolve these claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Ronald Scott Gibson, 46, of West Manchester, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to distributing child pornography after having been convicted of a prior related state sex offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad has announced that on December 5, 2016, Thomas C. Balsiger (63) of El Paso, Texas, was convicted of 12 felony offenses relating to his role in devising and executing a wide-ranging fraud scheme involving retail coupons.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today highlighted some of the key environmental accomplishments of the Obama administration over the last eight years in his statement submitted for the record for a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Program Implementation:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Rainell Peter Freeman, 25, of Wheeling, West Virginia, pled guilty to distributing heroin, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jwane Johnson, age 28, of Harrisburg, was convicted by a federal jury of possession with intent to distribute crack, possession of a handgun by a convicted felon, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The two-day trial was held before United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell in Harrisburg.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.) joined C-SPAN Newsmakers to discuss the bipartisan Policing Strategies Working Group and the Committee’s efforts to reform our nation’s criminal justice system. C-SPAN’s co-CEO Susan Swain moderated the interview and Kimbriell Kelly of the Washington Post and Jesse Holland of the Associated Press interviewed Chairman Goodlatte and Ranking Member Conyers.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: In the midst of a critical two week stretch on the #Path2Cures, the battle to deliver cures and cutting-edge treatments is being fought on all fronts. On last Sunday’s edition of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, called attention to a growing public health threat - superbugs.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ranking Members Bobby Scott (D-VA), Sander Levin (D-MI), and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) of the House Committees on Education and the Workforce, Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce respectively, made the following joint statement after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an order to delay the consideration of House v. Burwell...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: In the midst of a critical two week stretch on the #Path2Cures, the battle to deliver cures and cutting-edge treatments is being fought on all fronts. On last Sunday’s edition of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, called attention to a growing public health threat - superbugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2016
News Release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously and ‘easily’ rejected the Second Circuit’s novel reinterpretation of insider trading law in U.S. v. Newman. In its swiftly decided opinion, the Court stood up for common sense and affirmed what we have been arguing from the outset - that the law absolutely prohibits...
