News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Two Linked to Long Beach Treatment Program Taken into Custody This Morning.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman today kicked off debate on the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the product of bicameral negotiations to advance a unified package of legislation to combat the opioid epidemic.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today hosted a forum discussion on conscience rights led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). The discussion focused on the importance of preventing government discrimination against doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care entities that refuse to participate in abortions. Participants echoed a unified theme - #NoAbortionCoercion - that no American should be forced to participate in an abortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Ruben Hernandez, 39, of southern Florida, pleaded guilty on Thursday, July 7, 2016 in federal court to charges stemming from his role in the operation of a “pill mill" that existed in Opelika, Alabama between 2012 and 2013, announced Clay Morris, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: A former Minnesota National Guardsman was sentenced today to 210 months in prison for inducing a 14-year-old girl to create and send to him sexually explicit photos over the Internet while he was deployed to Afghanistan, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks during House Floor consideration of the Conference Report to Accompany S. 524 - Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Two orphaned moose calves, left without their mother as a result of an illegal shooting near the Denali Post office in early June, have been safely captured this afternoon and will be relocated to the Alaska Wilderness Conservation Center near Girdwood, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Roberto Lueje-Rodriguez, 29, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to access device fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia-Discover what life was like in one of the New River Gorge's most renowned towns! Join National Park Service rangers and Operation Lifesaver on Saturday, July 16th from 10:00 AM -2:00 PM to explore the historic railroad town of Thurmond and to learn safety tips for rail crossings...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Congresswoman Corrine Brown and her chief of staff were indicted today for their roles in a conspiracy and fraud scheme involving a fraudulent education charity.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1777, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act sponsored by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and Ranking Member Elijah Cummings (D-MD). The legislation limits the pensions of former presidents, increases the pensions of surviving spouses, and limits the allowances provided for post-presidential expenditures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Christopher Craft, 41, of Woodbridge, a former warrant officer in the U.S. Coast Guard, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for receipt of child pornography. Craft was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Corrine Brown and Chief of Staff Charged with Fraud Scheme Involving Bogus Non-Profit Scholarship Entity.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Five police officers (Brent Thompson, Michael Krol, Patrick Zamarriga and two others), killed in Dallas. Alton Sterling, killed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Philando Castile, killed in St. Anthony, Minnesota. We are losing too many lives, too many people. We hurt. And we ask, “Have we lost our way?".
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: On Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, 2016, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park invites visitors to step into a Civil War occupied town for “I Will Follow Them To the Death: Sheridan’s Soldiers 1864." From 11am to 4pm each day, this living history program with the 13th New Jersey military living...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On July 7, 2016, Jeffrey Lewis DeWitt, 28, of Ottumwa, Iowa, was sentenced by United States Senior District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 24 months in federal prison for wire fraud and conversion of mortgaged property, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. DeWitt was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, pay $200 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, and pay a total of $395,968.20 to eleven of his victims.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week on the U.S. Coast Guard’s Arctic strategy and its ability to implement Arctic operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned an indictment charging two individuals with a series of bank robberies in Northwest Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that an Arkansas man was sentenced Tuesday to 60 months in prison for conspiring with several women to conduct a counterfeit check cashing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison for drug trafficking, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
