News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The men responsible for Tony “T-Bone" Canfield’s death pled guilty today in federal court in Sioux City, Iowa.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at the Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “Home Appliance Energy Efficiency Standards Under the Department of Energy - Stakeholder Perspectives":
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal jury in Elizabeth City found SMITH MERINORD guilty of three counts of Hobbs Act Robberies and for the use and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and the firearm was brandished.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Orlando, FL - Amin Yu, 54, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty today to acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and conspiring to commit international money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) joined Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) in releasing a proposal to keep more children safely at home and out of foster care.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Advancing Patient Solutions for Lower Costs and Better Care", which included several bills that would undermine American’s access to health care coverage under the Affordable Care Act...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: The Wahweap fish cleaning station has reopened following repairs to the area’s waste water system by National Park Service staff. The fish cleaning station was closed on May 25 when a component of the waste water system failed, and water was shut off to the station.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of June 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced a policy change to protect same-sex spouses who received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) from being unfairly penalized...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROBERT A. OLINS pled guilty in Manhattan federal court today to charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and money laundering. The charges relate to OLINS’s scheme to hide his assets - including his multimillion-dollar...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Unionville, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months in prison and 4 years of supervised release on her conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining ways to advance patient solutions that lead to lower costs and better care. The hearing builds off of a hearing last month examining patient-centered reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Clement Ashford Reeves, Jr. (73, Yulee) has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Defendant Also Accused of Defrauding Government Program for Needy Families.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Manuel Soto-Pena, 31, a Dominican national who formerly resided in Woonsocket, was sentenced today to 51 months in federal prison, having admitted to the court that he entered the United States illegally on three occasions, twice after having been deported.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing efforts to modernize government for the innovation era, full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today sent a letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Member John Shimkus (R-IL), House Ways and Means Committee Member and Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA), and House Ways and Means Committee Member Charles Boustany Jr, M.D. (R-LA) issued the following statements today upon receiving...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: Defendants Also Plead Guilty in Separate Assault Cases.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2016
News Release: MARINA, Calif. -- The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comments on the direct sale of an isolated 40-acre parcel of public land located on Smith Mountain in the southern Diablo Range in Monterey and Fresno counties. A Notice of Realty Action for the sale published in the Federal Register.
