News from July 2016
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, along with Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate HELP Committee, received the “Friend Of Education Award" from the National Education Association (NEA) for their bipartisan work on the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the landmark K-12 legislation to fix the broken No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Clara Beth Joe, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gallup, N.M., was sentenced this morning in Santa Fe, N.M., to 24 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her involuntary manslaughter conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Aurelia Quezada-Moreno, 47, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on July 6, 2016, for conspiracy to distribute 1.5 to 5 kilograms of a mixture of substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine. Quezada-Moreno was arrested in Del Rio, Texas. She received...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David A. Capp, announced that Miranda Brakley, 36, of Lake Station, Indiana was sentenced in Hammond Federal Court for one count theft of government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment against the highest ranking leaders of the Bandidos Outlaw Motorcycle Organization (OMO) adding a murder charge and a new defendant to the federal racketeering indictment returned in January.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. “Food insecurity around the world has an impact on national security, which is why today’s hearing is important. I don’t think a lot of people understand the important role agriculture can play when it comes to our country’s national security interests - a strong agriculture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury last week indicted two former Regions Bank employees for conspiracy in a $5 million bribery and wire fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), and the House Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), today released a new report, entitled, “Joint Congressional Investigative Report into the Source of Funding for the ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program."
By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary McDonald: We have a responsibility to ensure that our veterans receive the high-quality educational opportunities they have earned. While we commend the progress that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has made in providing consumer protection measures for veterans using the Post-9/11...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Economic Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal." Yucca Mountain, Nevada, was designated in 1987 as the sole site for a deep, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Hudson County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a $13 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos in Wildwood and Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: A former Youngstown man was sentenced to more than three years in prison for crimes related to the purchase of a dozen homes in Mahoning County, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Steven D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joseph W. Lavoie, 49, of Providence, was ordered detained in federal custody today on federal bank robbery and arson charges. It is alleged that on Wednesday Lavoie robbed and set fire to a North Providence branch office of Citizens Bank.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today responded to House Republicans’ release of an ‘investigative report’ on the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) subsidy program in the Affordable Care Act...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining updated text for H.R. 546, the Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids (ACE Kids) Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Thomas A. Coates, 30, formerly of Columbus, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of racketeering conspiracy. Coates was originally scheduled to stand trial with Lance Green, who also pleaded guilty, on July 11 in the second of three trials involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: A five-count indictment was unsealed today in United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Frank Smith, a member of a Coney Island-based gang known variously as “Rival Impact," “R.I.," “Mermaids," “Mermaid Boys," and “33rd Street Crew," with crimes including racketeering...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Do you have information about a recent assault in Cuyahoga Valley National Park?
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Health Hearing on “Examining the Advancing Care for Exceptional Kids Act":
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Donovan Langford, 45, of California, pleaded guilty yesterday to unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Donovan was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on March 8, 2016.
