News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 67-year-old Willis woman has admitted she stole the identity of a deceased woman and used it for financial gain for nearly 20 years, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior released its final regulation for energy development in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).
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 on July 11th, 2016, in the second of three trials involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By EPA 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 EPA 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: SAN JOSE - Remon Issa Daniel pleaded guilty in federal court late yesterday to three counts of wire fraud for his scheme to defraud produce vendors, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The plea follows charges...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at an Environment and the Economy Subcommittee hearing on “Federal, State, and Local Agreements and Economic Benefits for Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal":
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARTHA QUINONES, age 51, of Houston, Texas, pled guilty today to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute over one kilogram of heroin.
By EPA 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 Commerce Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: It's a staple of the TV-crime drama: a ballistics expert tries to match two bullets using a microscope with a split-screen display. One bullet was recovered from the victim's body and the other was test-fired from a suspect's gun. If the striations on the bullets line up-cue the sound of a cell door slamming shut-the bad guy is headed to jail.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's New York (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, New York City's Special Narcotics Prosecutor, and New York City Police Commissioner William J. Bratton, announced the seizure of 52 kilograms of cocaine found concealed...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas woman appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney to a three-count indictment alleging she made harassing telephone calls to university and municipal police departments throughout the U.S. and Canada to falsely report she was a purported victim or purportedly injured, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE 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: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney=s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Quan Leroy Gross, 44, of York, Pennsylvania was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The indictment charged Gross with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, that being crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: LEWISTON, Maine - - Matthew Mennealy, 34, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced by United States District Judge George Z. Singal for his involvement in distributing heroin, oxycodone, crack and cocaine and possessing firearms while drug trafficking. Mennealy received a sentence of 84 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for these crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: A former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleebank B.A. (Rabobank) derivatives trader, who worked in Hong Kong and Singapore as the bank’s Head of Money Market and Derivatives Trading for Northeast Asia, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud for his role in a scheme to manipulate the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to Rabobank’s advantage.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Robert Johnson Named Special Agent in Charge of Pittsburgh Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: Matthew Mennealy, 34, of Lewiston, Maine, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge George Z. Singal for his involvement in distributing heroin, oxycodone, crack and cocaine and possessing firearms while drug trafficking. Mennealy received a sentence of 84 months in prison to be followed by 3 years of supervised release for these crimes.
By Commerce 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 - One year ago this week, support was surging for H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. As the House prepared to vote on the Cures legislation, over 700 groups encompassing patient advocacy groups, rare disease groups, cancer centers, technology groups, top universities, biopharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, and others from across the country rallied in support of the landmark bill. A list of those groups is below...
