News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Andrew Schrock, age 32, formerly of Marion, Iowa, has been charged with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges are contained in an Indictment filed on Jan. 12, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man has pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Shaun L. Graves, age 33, entered a guilty plea today to the charge before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE for the 21st Century: Science, Environment, and National Security Missions."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Monongahela, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to two years of probation on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that HARDELL MACK, age 44, a resident of LaPlace, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF") in the aftermath of the BP oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARK BERTANZA, 34, of Shelton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to three years of probation for his role in a steroid manufacturing and distribution ring. Judge Chatigny also ordered BERTANZA to perform 120 hours of community service and pay a $1000 fine.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with a growing threat of cybersecurity breaches, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) about its ability to protect sensitive information. The committee is “examining the adequacy of FDA’s procedures to protect the trade secrets and confidential commercial information of regulated entities in the food industry."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Feb. 17, 2016, Nicholas J. Perjak, 34, a Monroe County resident, pled guilty to a four-count Superseding Indictment charging him, in Count 1, with Attempt to Access with Intent to View Child...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Schuylkill County employee, Virginia G. Kunigonis, age 54, of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge William W. Caldwell to embezzling $452,186 from the Schuylkill County Conservation District between 2007 and 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Fiscal Year 2017 HHS Budget." The president submitted his fiscal year...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging AARON J. JOHNSON, 35, formerly of Haddam, with defrauding clients of his investment business. The indictment was returned on February 4, 2016, and JOHNSON was arrested today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. ordered Jerry Lee Edwards, 30, of Charlotte, to serve 130 months in prison and three years of supervised release on drug and firearm charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: A former staff mentor at the Florida Keys Children’s Shelter, a residential facility in Tavernier, Florida, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Marcia G. Cooke to 380 months’ imprisonment, following his conviction for child sex trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “DOE for the 21st Century: Science, Environment, and National Security Missions."
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) recently highlighted the “uncommon opportunity" the Vice President Biden’s “moon shot" initiative and H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, provide to deliver new treatments for patients. Rep. Long also provides a personal glimpse of why the Cures...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Clay County man was sentenced today to eight years and four months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Lloyd Ellis Rapp, 44, of Duck, previously pleaded guilty in November 2015 to the federal gun crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Alfredo De Jusus Ramirez, age 21, of Henry County, Georgia was sentenced in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina, for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, a violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846. United States District Judge J. Michelle Childs of Columbia sentenced Ramirez to 292 months in the Bureau of Prisons.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that an East Texas pain management physician has pleaded guilty to illegally dispensing controlled substances.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Democratic leaders on the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), requesting information on the agency’s Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program.
