News from July 2016
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Chief Executive Officer Chris Henderson. The letter builds upon the committee’s ongoing investigation into the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Laquitta S. Brackins has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud by defrauding a cell phone insurance provider. Brackins, along with a co-conspirator, filed thousands of false insurance claims on cell phones that did not belong to them and received over $1.6 million worth of cell phones from those claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Gernain Jackson (33, Duval County) has pleaded guilty to enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity. He faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison. The sentencing hearing is scheduled for Sept. 28, 2016, before United States District Judge Paul G. Byron.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Crescent City, CA - More than 305 million people visited national parks in 2015, eclipsing the all-time visitation record that the National Park Service saw in the previous year. Redwood National Park alone recorded 527,143 visitors in 2015, up 98,000 from 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai requesting a briefing from Commissioner Pai’s staff regarding his current investigation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Trade and Labor Affairs accepted a petition from worker rights groups, which alleges that Colombia is not satisfying its labor obligations under the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) and Representative Bruce Westerman (R-AR) participated in a press call to discuss pending wildfire and forest management legislation (H.R. 2647 / S. 3085).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Three men from Northeast Ohio pleaded guilty this week for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud about 70 investors out of approximately $17 million, law enforcement officials said.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) Chief Executive Officer Chris Henderson. The letter builds upon the committee’s ongoing investigation into the waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Robbery of BBVA Compass Bank Branch in Albuquerque.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - In a letter sent today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), along with Senators Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Richard Blumenthal...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: This week, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Brownfields Authorization Increase Act (H.R. 5782) to boost funding to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 29, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today to 102 months in prison for attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Farrokh was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commissioner Ajit Pai requesting a briefing from Commissioner Pai’s staff regarding his current investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: These past few weeks have been difficult for our country. The deaths in Baton Rouge, Minnesota and Dallas are nothing short of tragic, and they raise fundamental questions about who we are as a society. We must have trust between communities and law enforcement if we are to be a safe society. How can this trust be rebuilt? How can every person in this country be guaranteed equal justice under the law?
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: This week, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Paul Tonko (D-NY) introduced the Brownfields Authorization Increase Act (H.R. 5782) to boost funding to clean up and redevelop brownfield sites across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: Hovary Muniz, 39, of Miami, was sentenced today in Fort Lauderdale, for his involvement in an attempt to import undeclared wildlife from Cuba, in violation of the federal anti-smuggling statute, Title 18, United States Code, Section 545.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Wayne Shelby Simmons, 62, of Annapolis, Maryland, a former Fox News commentator who has falsely claimed he spent 27 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for major fraud against the government, wire fraud, and a firearms offense. Simmons was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release, to forfeit two firearms and $175,612 in criminal proceeds, and to pay restitution to his victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Dana Morris, 42, of Williamsburg, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of engaging in a monetary transaction involving proceeds of unlawful activity and tax evasion.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 15, 2016
News Release: EAGLE, Alaska: Two new lightning-caused fires were discovered on National Park Service lands within the boundary of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve (YUCH) between yesterday and this morning.
