News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Froehlich, Connecticut State’s Attorney for the Judicial District of Windham, and Cpl. Stanley Parizo, ...
By EPA 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLINS CALIXTE, 32, of Norwich, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud stemming from his involvement in an insurance fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR-Special Agent in Charge Douglas A. Leff of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), San Juan Field Office, announced the arrest of JESUS NARANJO-ADORNO.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JORGE PULIDO-HERRERA, a/k/a JORGE LICONA-CERRATO, age 46, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A jury sitting in Galveston has returned guilty verdicts against a Galveston man on one charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors and four counts of sex trafficking of minors, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The jury convicted Charles Devan Fulton Sr., 39, late yesterday following a six-day trial and approximately four hours of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Alleged Serial Bank Robber Arrested. Steven Rice, 41, of Barrington, New Jersey, was taken into custody on July 6, 2016 by members of the FBI/PPD Violent Crimes Task Force, with assistance from the Gloucester County (New Jersey) Prosecutor’s Office. Rice is charged by federal criminal complaint with...
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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to distributing child pornography following an undercover operation in which he attempted to meet two minor girls for sex.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today met with Mexico’s recently arrived Ambassador to the United States Carlos Sada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Former Cumming, Georgia, Police Officer Nathan VanBuren has been arraigned after being charged with wire fraud and computer fraud.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today is pleased to announce Senate passage of S.764 , the bipartisan proposal to protect the use of agriculture biotechnology and to ensure consumers have access to food information they want. The legislation was approved on a 63-30 vote.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement following Senate passage of legislation that would require the first mandatory, nationwide label for food products containing genetically modified organisms - more commonly known as GMOs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that, Phillip Wilson, age 36, of Burlington, Vermont, was arrested on July 6, 2016 and charged via...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Olympic National Park and Federal Highway Administration staff are working together to repair and improve pavement on roads, parking losts and campgrounds in the northernand eastern sections of Olympic National Park.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: With the busy summer months still ahead, visitation to Yellowstone National Park for the first six months of 2016 is up 10 percent compared to the previous year. Visitation for June alone is up seven percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: Four individuals have been charged in connection with a fraud scheme orchestrated from the Federal Detention Center in Miami, Florida.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2016
News Release: H.R. 5578, the “Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016," would provide needed protections and rights to victims of sexual assault.
By Commerce 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...
