News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Lakewood woman has been found guilty of five felony charges for lying to banks that funded mortgages for three properties that later went into default, causing about $660,000 in losses to the lenders.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, March 1, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Hearing to Examine Pipeline Safety Reauthorization." The Energy and Commerce Committee has been at the forefront of improving pipeline safety.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Union, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for one count of causing the transmission of computer code and, as a result, damaging computers and causing at least $5,000 in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jason D. Boudreau, 41, of Woonsocket, was arraigned on Monday in U.S. District Court in Providence on a 33-count federal indictment charging him with 33 counts of allegedly accessing with intent to view child pornography. A federal grand jury returned the indictment on Feb. 16, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued the following statement in response to the investigation into defective Takata airbag inflators.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg, Mark Berger has been convicted on federal drug trafficking charges.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) responded following the release of the Health and Human Services Inspector General’s report on HealthCare.gov. The committee has actively conducted aggressive oversight of the failures of HealthCare.gov.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that a local woman has pled guilty to a pair of counterfeiting charges in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon last Friday.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) responded following the release of the Health and Human Services Inspector General’s report on HealthCare.gov. The committee has actively conducted aggressive oversight of the failures of HealthCare.gov.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK -An elk harvested near Pruitt on the Buffalo National River during the October 2015 hunting season tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Diego Rojas, age 42, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 19, 2016 by a federal grand jury in Scranton for conspiracy to make false claims against the government. The case was unsealed on Feb. 19, 2016 following Rojas’ initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy to commit a series of armed robberies against victims who were lured through an advertisement posted on Craigslist.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that WILLIAM LYNN BURROUGH, age 45, of Spiro, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Isaiah Brown, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of bank robbery, was sentenced to 57 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell is set to return to 2123 RHOB Wednesday to testify before the Health Subcommittee on the agency’s 2017 budget request. Her appearance is timely given the committee’s still unanswered questions on Obamacare’s cost-sharing reduction program as well as the recent revelation that the administration has “looted" billions in taxpayer dollars to prop up insurance companies.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, is pleased to announce broad food and agriculture industry support of his Chairman’s Mark on Biotechnology Labeling Solutions, which will be considered at the Committee’s business meeting on Thursday.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joshua T. Robinson, 36, of Colchester, Conn., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, to interstate travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct, admitting to the court that he traveled from his home to Cranston, RI, expecting to meet with and engage in sexual relations with a 14-year old girl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ORVAL FURLONG, 72, of Southport, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday in New Haven federal court to one count of tax evasion.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Led by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and House Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), 34 Senators and 171 House Members filed an amicus brief today in the case of State of West Virginia, et al. v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
