News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Settlement Requires Action to Prevent Future Spills.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the ongoing effort to boost jobs and innovation, House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) recently introduced H. Res. 835, a bipartisan resolution urging the U.S. to “adopt a national policy for technology to promote...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: To prevent another tragic death from a faulty Takata airbag, Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) took to the Houston Chronicle to alert constituents to the importance of automobile safety as it relates to the largest automobile recall in U.S. history - the Takata airbag recall.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Meet Trinity Teeters, an exceptional teenager from Chairman Fred Upton’s district in Berrien Springs, Michigan, who was born with an ultra rare disease. Her syndrome is called Tibial aplasia, lower extremity mirror image polydactyly, brachyphalangy, craniofacial dysmorphism and genital hypoplasia: further delineation and mutational analysis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Dr. Carl Reddix, 57, of Jackson, was charged today with paying bribes and kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher B. Epps in exchange for receiving contracts involving the MDOC and its operations, announced Acting United States Attorney Harold Brittain and FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Donald Alway.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Meet Trinity Teeters, an exceptional teenager from Chairman Fred Upton’s district in Berrien Springs, Michigan, who was born with an ultra rare disease. Her syndrome is called Tibial aplasia, lower extremity mirror image polydactyly, brachyphalangy, craniofacial dysmorphism and genital hypoplasia: further delineation and mutational analysis.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 19, 2016, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Johnny L. Kinney (age: 22) of Neopit, Wisconsin, and Bo Peters (age: 20) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging them with Assault Resulting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of Southwestern Energy Co. has been ordered to prison following her conviction of embezzlement, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kendra Walker, 28, pleaded guilty to embezzling $452,025.56.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Muadhdhin Bey, age 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment1 with possessing a firearm and ammunition on March 28, 2016, after having been convicted of a felony offense, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: To prevent another tragic death from a faulty Takata airbag, Energy and Commerce Committee member Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) took to the Houston Chronicle to alert constituents to the importance of automobile safety as it relates to the largest automobile recall in U.S. history - the Takata airbag recall.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today announced his new tax leadership team for the Committee. Together Victor Fleischer and Tiffany Smith will co-lead tax reform efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN -U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today that Dominick T. Johnson, 34, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to 72 years and eight months in prison by U.S. District Judge Gordon J. Quist. Johnson was convicted by a jury in January of seven crimes-including conspiracy, bank robbery, and firearms charges-after a two-week trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Mark Tasker, a/k/a “Mackie", 49, of Dexter, Maine; Greg Tasker, 28, of Stetson, Maine; and Eugene Moulton, 67, and Antoinette Perreault, a/k/a “Toni", 48, both of Harmony, Maine, pleaded guilty today U.S. District Court to conspiring to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., man has been convicted by a federal jury of illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed a False Claims Act complaint against DynCorp International Inc. (DynCorp) alleging that it knowingly submitted inflated claims in connection with a State Department contract to train Iraqi police forces (CIVPOL contract), the Department of Justice announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) will host an industry day, July 29, in Menlo Park, California, to connect ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: Defendant Defrauded Investors in a Nigerian Oil Scheme and Made False Claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs A Las Vegas resident was sentenced to 25 years in jail today on multiple fraud charges, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: The United States filed a False Claims Act complaint against DynCorp International Inc. (DynCorp) alleging that it knowingly submitted inflated claims in connection with a State Department contract to train Iraqi police forces (CIVPOL contract), the Department of Justice announced today. The United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: A registered nurse was convicted today by a federal jury in the Southern District of Texas for participating in an $8 million Medicare fraud scheme involving fraudulent claims for home-health services.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 19, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced it is prohibiting a former foreign exchange (FX) trader from participating in the banking industry for his manipulation of FX pricing benchmarks.
