News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called a meeting today with members of the Administration and advocacy groups to press for strong enforcement of their amendment to end the importation of products produced with forced labor...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announced today that Maria E. Trenam, age 52, of Cumming, Georgia, previously of Warner Robins, Georgia, entered a plea of guilty to one count of wire fraud on June 14, 2016, before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, U. S. District Court Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Chairman Duncan Hunter (R-CA). Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Hearing on “Coast Guard Mission Needs and Resource Allocation". June 14, 2016. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). The Subcommittee is meeting this morning to review Coast Guard mission needs and a report released...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: A Coconut Grove resident was sentenced to 24 months in prison, to be followed by two years of supervised release, by United States District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, following his conviction for trafficking in counterfeit merchandise, concealing assets, and laundering money.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JORGE JUVIER, a former owner and operator of multiple HIV/AIDS clinics in New York City, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison for engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare out of more than $12 million...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: CEO of International Metallurgical Company Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Export Specialty Metals to Iran.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two men and a woman have been charged in federal court for their roles in a conspiracy to use online ads for escort services as a means to lure victims to hotel rooms in order to rob them.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Devils Tower, WY -. Centennial celebrations are sweeping the nation's parks this year! Devils Tower National Monument is hosting a series of celebrations such as the Old Settlers' Picnic on Sunday, June 26! The festivities will begin at 12:30 pm in the picnic area near the campground. There will be free...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KRISTIN KOENIG, a/k/a KRISTIN BARNES, age 41, of Denham Springs, was sentenced following a guilty plea to a one count Bill of Information for bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Redding Field Office will reopen the Iron Mountain Shooting Range in Shasta County on Thursday, June 16. The area is currently under a temporary closure due to the Keswick Fire which broke out on Saturday. CAL FIRE reports that the 24-acre fire is now 100 percent contained. The closure will allow firefighters to safely complete fire containment operations in the area of Keswick Dam Road and Iron Mountain Road in Redding.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today led a letter signed by every democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, urging for swift action on gun violence.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: BALDWIN, Ill. - A 46-year-old worker suffered the amputation of four fingers on his right hand when a feed machine cycled as he reached inside an access door to assist another employee with maintenance. Federal safety inspectors found his employer, Dynegy Midwest Generation LLC, failed to power down the machinery prior to employees servicing the machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Fraudulent Conveyance Suit Alleges that Convicted Felon Joseph Felix Strevell Funneled Money to his Daughter Rather than Repay Victim of his Crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Fitchburg office manager pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to embezzling over $1.3 million dollars from her employer over a ten year period.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: In my view, there are two parts to the energy debate today. First is where our energy policy needs to go in the long term - a tech-neutral approach that throws the current mishmash of incentives in the trash can, cuts their cost in half, and promotes a clean-energy economy. More green for less green.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Member and Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA), House Energy and Commerce Committee Member John Shimkus (R-IL), and House Ways and Means Committee Member Charles Boustany Jr, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statements today upon receiving...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine energy tax provisions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -- Chief United States District Judge J. Michael Seabright yesterday sentenced Aaron Hu, 52, of Kailua, to 46 months imprisonment for possessing, with intent to distribute, a quantity of methamphetamine and heroin within 1,000 feet of a public elementary school on March 30, 2015. Hu was convicted on Feb. 25, 2016 following a three-day jury trial.
By State Newswire | Jun 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement in response to President Obama’s address on U.S. operations against ISIS...
