News from February 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam delivered the following opening statement at a Ways and Means Committee markup of his bill, the SAVERS Act of 2015 (H.R.4294)...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee markup of several bipartisan bills regarding the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), including...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant, who had prior felony convictions, was caught in a car with other occupants when law enforcement found his backback which contained a revolver.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) responded to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that confirmed that a Republican proposal to privatize air traffic control operations would be a high-risk gamble. The report was released on the same day as a hearing on the controversial ATC privatization proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that Paul Younes, age 63 of Kearney, Nebraska, and Kearney Hospitality, Inc. were arraigned on charges related to the unlawful hiring of aliens. Younes was charged with unlawful employment of aliens in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement in response to the release of President Obama’s proposed fiscal year 2017 budget...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Tiffany H. Lee, who is handling the case, stated that in November 2013, a law enforcement officer acting in an undercover capacity downloaded images of child pornography using a peer-to-peer file sharing software from an Internet Protocol address registered to a computer in Henrietta. A search warrant was executed and images of child pornography were recovered from the defendant’s computer. The images included prepubescent minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Cherry Creek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to burn piles in the Wofford Heights and Wagy Flat areas near Lake Isabella starting this week. Operations are scheduled to begin on a project next to Sawmill and Wagy Flat roads above Wofford Heights.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in response to the Department of Labor’s January 2016 jobs report...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) applauded unanimous HELP Committee passage of her bill to provide additional tools to review and ensure the safety of medical devices known as duodenoscopes. The Preventing Superbugs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Southbridge man was sentenced today in U.S. District court in Worcester for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Gregory Hatt, 28, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin, distribution of heroin resulting in death, distribution of heroin, possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, and the possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the release of the President’s Fiscal Year 2017 international affairs budget...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt requesting information on why the agency failed to fully implement...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement in reaction to President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 budget request...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration New York Division ("DEA"), and Delano A. Reid, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Minas Litos, 50; Adrian Tartareanu, 45; and Daniela Tartareanu, 44; all of Saint John, Indiana were sentenced in federal court by Chief Judge Philip Simon today for conspiracy and wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Joaquin Broncho, 19, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to voluntary manslaughter, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Broncho was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Sept. 23, 2014, on a charge of second-degree murder. Broncho was previously charged as a juvenile in this case, but his case was later transferred to adult court.
