News from December 2016
By DOE Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Although the 114th Congress is winding down, the Energy and Commerce Committee continues to build on its bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess as President Obama recently signed three #SubCMT bills into law. The bipartisan bills signed into law were S. 3183, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, H.R. 5111, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, and H.R. 4665, the Outdoor REC Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Gregory Harriman, 52, formerly of Bennington, Vermont, was sentenced on Dec. 19, 2016 to thirty months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for his role in defrauding and embezzling...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Pinedale Field Office is notifying the public that BLM-administered big game winter ranges in the Ryegrass, Bench Corral, Deer Hills, Calpet, Miller Mountain and Mesa areas will be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Delexsia Harris (24, Bradenton) to 10 years in federal prison for witness tampering and obstruction of justice. A federal jury found her guilty on Sept. 22, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Davis Kiryakoz pleaded guilty to conspiracy to transport stolen goods announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea agreement, accepted today by the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman, U.S. District Judge, identifies the stolen goods as wines valued at over $870,000, more than $370,000 of which defendant arranged to have shipped in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Robbery of Wells Fargo Bank Branch in Santa Fe.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Mike Lozano, 29, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced this morning by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 135 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2016 to one count of attempted enticement of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released a statement on the appointment of Senator-Elect Chris Van Hollen to serve on the Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: DEC 20 - HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Timothy Paprocki, 33, of Ledyard, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of distribution of heroin.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Although the 114th Congress is winding down, the Energy and Commerce Committee continues to build on its bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess as President Obama recently signed three #SubCMT bills into law. The bipartisan bills signed into law were S. 3183, the Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act, H.R. 5111, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, and H.R. 4665, the Outdoor REC Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), George P. Beach II, the Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP"), and Peter...
By State Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on the political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS - What started out as an idea by local county commissioners to reopen a popular farm to market road nineteen years ago continues to be a success not just for humans, but also for wintering wildlife. The absence of human disturbance created by the closure allows herds of deer, elk, and moose...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Members of the bipartisan encryption working group - established in March 2016 by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) - today released a year-end report laying out key observations and next steps.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 20, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Vanilson Da Silva, doing business as Real Contractors LLC. Vanilson Da Silva, doing business as Real Contractors LLC. 600 West Germantown Pike, Suite 400. 600 West Germantown Pike, Suite 400. Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Inspection site: 12-330 Fairmount...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Quentin Cephus (30, Tampa) today pleaded guilty to forcibly assaulting and inflicting bodily injury on a federal employee, while that employee was carrying out his official duties. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Mrugesh G. Patel (38, Edgewater) today pleaded guilty to bank fraud. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pennsylvania man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: Chinese National Admits to Stealing Sensitive Military Program Documents From United Technologies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Chenhsin Chan, a/k/a Paul Chan, 44, of Elmhurst, N.Y., was sentenced to a prison term of 11 years, 3 months late Friday in connection with his online marketing and sale of dietary supplements containing ephedrine notwithstanding a federal ban. Chan was found guilty of 30 felony counts following a three-day jury trial in May 2016.
