News from February 2016
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Feb. 9, 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Two individuals, both in the U.S. illegally, have been sentenced for their roles in a heroin distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the President’s FY 2017 Budget Request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Defendant had been in touch with a Homeland Security Investigations special agent acting in an undercover capacity regarding his desire to sexually exploit children.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Obama Administration released its budget proposal for the 2017 fiscal year.Chairman Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today applauded the Department of Energy’s decision to renew authorization for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports for Alaska’s Kenai LNG facility.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been authorized to create an Angel Watch Center to expand efforts to alert foreign law enforcement partners about the intended travel by convicted registered child sex offenders from the United States to their countries, following the signature of International Megan's Law by the President on Monday.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against M & M Produce Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Christopher Cook, of Bakersfield, agreed to forfeit to the United States approximately 3,804 polymer AR-15 lower receivers manufactured in violation of federal firearms laws, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. AR-15 lower receivers are classified as firearms under federal law.
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: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Federal indictments were unsealed today charging 14 people with facilitating a Michigan to Morgantown heroin trafficking operation, according to United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The former in-house counsel of an Ocean County, New Jersey-based home health care company was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for using his attorney trust account to steal more than $2.6 million from his employer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) commends Walgreens for their commitment to install secure collection bins for unused prescription drugs in over 500 of their stores in 40 states.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on investments in tackling mental illness and substance abuse that were included in President Barack Obama’s FY17 budget proposal.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Juneau, Alaska - An Alaskan physician was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for receiving and distributing child pornography, a lifetime term of supervised release, and a $25,000 fine, announced U.S. Attorney Karen. L. Loeffler.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today released the following statement in response to the president’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: Since announcing NOAA’s priorities, the agency has made tremendous strides toward providing the information and services communities need to build resilience, evolving the National Weather Service, investing in our network of observational platforms, and, achieving organizational excellence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Michael Alvares Fykes, age 45, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was recently sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 60 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Daniel Lorenz, 45, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to 10 years in prison. In November 2015, Lorenz pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to one count of possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay to block the Obama administration’s rule to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants:
