News from July 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Becky Lyons of Mobile, Alabama pled guilty before Judge Callie V.S. Granade to Health Care Fraud. Sentencing is set for Jan. 11, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: I want to thank the Majority Whip - Steve Scalise - for joining us today to accept this Interim Update as prepared by the Select Investigative Panel.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of a federal firearm violation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that MARSHA COLE, age 56, of Metairie, Louisiana, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to aggravated identity theft and engaging in a scheme to defraud numerous banks in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. As part of the scheme, COLE embezzled approximately $102,257 from her victim accounts at several banks. She is set to be sentenced on Nov. 17, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler urging the FCC to take action to ensure that the United States maintains its global leadership in mobile broadband distribution and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: This morning, federal, state and local authorities arrested a Sureños gang member and an associate charged in connection with methamphetamine trafficking in El Paso announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., 34th Judicial District Attorney Jaime Esparza, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, and El Paso Police Chief Greg Allen.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SHIPROCK, N.M. - U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor, Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Estevan López and senior Navajo Nation officials met at the Navajo Shiprock Chapter House today and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) intended to evaluate emergency contingency water...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) study, the use of combined management programs can control kudzu more quickly than individual methods in use today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: The latest issue of Yellowstone Science celebrates wolf restoration and many of the scientific research projects and findings on wolves of Yellowstone since reintroduction, over 20 years ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Issa Haddad, age 24, of Rockville, Maryland today to a year and a day in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for drug and money laundering conspiracies involving over 400 kilograms of marijuana, and more than $2.5 million in drug proceeds. Judge Motz also entered an order requiring Haddad to forfeit $2.5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlton man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with soliciting hundreds of teenage girls on several social media platforms.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded the initial funding of the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office’s (DNDO) Securing the Cities program to Chicago, further building upon the Department’s ongoing efforts to increase the Nation’s capabilities to detect and protect against radiological and nuclear threats.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 13, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today $26 million to help provide safe and sanitary housing for farmworkers in nine affordable rental communities in four states. The funding will support 439 rental units in California, Florida, Kansas and Texas. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will make the announcement later today during an address to the League of United Latin American Citizens' (LULAC) 87th annual national convention.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 13, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today accepted the Federal Agency of the Year award from the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and delivered remarks at the organization's 87th Annual National Convention. This award recognizes USDA's commitment to civil rights and equal opportunity under the Obama Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Thirteen Branches in Northeast Ohio to Be Divested The Department of Justice announced today that Huntington Bancshares Incorporated and FirstMerit Corporation have agreed to sell 13 branches in Northeast Ohio, with approximately $737.8 million in deposits, to resolve antitrust concerns that arose from Huntington’s planned acquisition of FirstMerit. As a result of the acquisition, Huntington will become the largest bank in Ohio based on deposits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Sex Trafficking Scheme Used Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere The Justice Department announced today that Christopher Williams, 31, and Laquentin Brown, 34, both of Memphis, Tennessee, were sentenced to 180 months and 99 months in prison, respectively, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Company is Fourth Firm Charged in Conspiracy Among Major International Ocean Shipping Lines Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics AS (WWL), a Norwegian corporation, has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $98.9 million criminal fine for its involvement in a conspiracy to fix prices of international ocean shipments ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care will pay $18 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it claimed Medicare reimbursement for hospice care for patients who were not eligible for such care because they were not terminally ill, the Justice Department announced today. Evercare, now known as Optum Palliative and Hospice Care, is a Minnesota-based provider of hospice care in Arizona, Colorado and other states across the United States.
