News from July 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Glacier National ParkMedia Release. July 12, 2016. Margie Steigerwald 406-888-5838. Tim Rains 406-888-7895. MEDIA16- 41. Public Invited to Premiere of Climate Change Interactive Dance Performance. CoMotion Dance Project Partners With Glacier National Park Conservancy and Glacier National Park to Perform...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Indictments Include Drug Trafficking, Firearm Possession And Failure To Register As Sex Offender.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 5510, FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016; H.R. 5111, Consumer Review Fairness Act; H.R. 5092, Reinforcing American Made Products Act; H.R. 5104, Better...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEVEN MCCLATCHEY, a director at an investment bank in Manhattan (the “Investment Bank"), pled guilty to committing insider trading in connection with potential mergers and acquisitions (“M&A") in which...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Parrish Powell, 27, previously of Mount Vernon, New York, was sentenced for possessing a weapon at a federal correctional institution in July 2015. United States District Judge Landya B. McCafferty imposed a sentence of 15 months’ imprisonment and a mandatory $100 special assessment.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of H.R. 5510, FTC Process and Transparency Reform Act of 2016; H.R. 5111, Consumer Review Fairness Act; H.R. 5092, Reinforcing American Made Products Act; H.R. 5104, Better...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant caught with nearly $40,000 cash during conspiracy investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Jackie Williams, age 42, from Bishop, Georgia, was sentenced to serve 70 months in Federal prison for wire fraud today by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge, in Athens. Ms. Williams was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $563,097.01.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Monday, July 11, 2016, Husam Usama Tayeh, 36, of Oak Lawn, Illinois, pleaded guilty to committing wire fraud, announced United States Attorney George L. Beck, Jr and Joseph P. Borg, Director of the Alabama Securities Commission. Tayeh’s guilty plea resulted from his operation of a business that unlawfully sold Iraqi currency---dinars-over the internet to customers all over the country. A joint-federal and state investigation led to Tayeh’s guilty plea.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Health Hearing titled, “Strengthening our National Trauma System: "
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today held a hearing examining ways to strengthen our national trauma system. The hearing reviewed a recent report and recommendations by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), as well as H.R. 4365, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016, authored by committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Everglades National Park Reopens Frank Key Channel, Carl Ross Key, and the western side of Palm Key in Florida Bay.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing continuing its ongoing oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. All five FCC commissioners testified and members examined the waste, fraud, and abuse within the Universal Service Lifeline program, the agency’s proposed privacy rules, and the FCC’s set-top box proposal, among other things.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing continuing its ongoing oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. All five FCC commissioners testified and members examined the waste, fraud, and abuse within the Universal Service Lifeline program, the agency’s proposed privacy rules, and the FCC’s set-top box proposal, among other things.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today DONALD BRIAN BEAUCHAINE, 40, of Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina, was sentenced to 180 months imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release by Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, for one count of manufacturing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a superseding indictment charging ADAM JONATHAN MARTIN, 35, for stealing more than $350,000 from a brewery at which he worked, and for fraudulently obtaining an additional $330,000 from purported investors in a fraudulent investment scheme. MARTIN is charged with six counts of wire fraud, three counts of monetary transactions in criminally derived property, and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service wants visitors to be prepared while visiting Lake Roosevelt. Conditions this summer at Lake Roosevelt have been optimal for mosquitoes.Visitors, park staff, and our neighbors and partners have been dealing with an extraordinarily large mosquito population, especially in the north district near Kettle Falls, WA.
