News from June 2016
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Combatting Superbugs: U.S. Public Health Responses to Antibiotic Resistance." The hearing comes after headlines last week declared, “The superbug that doctors have been dreading just reached the U.S."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Smart on Crime project with 6th-7th grade girls at Daniel Webster Elementary fosters positive relationships and improved confidence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has scheduled a full committee markup on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, to consider several bills including landmark mental health legislation. Details on the time and location will be posted here, as they become...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An individual found by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of Illegal Reentry After Deportation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City man was arrested today on charges that he defrauded investors using phony contracts he had to sell olive oil to major retailers and then used the money for purchases, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian is scheduled to testify tomorrow at the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on synthetic controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Adrian, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today no charges related to drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - As they recover from the impacts of Tropical Storm Colin and tornados, Florida's emergency workers, employers, and the public at-large should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) welcomed today’s Senate passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The legislation now heads to the president to be signed into law which will culminate a multi-year effort for the committee. The House passed the bill 403-12 on May 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Willie Vishone Joyner, 31, of Sterling, Virginia, pled guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Vanshawn A. Haggins (28, Tampa) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pleaded guilty on March 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: A Uniontown man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison for operating a scheme in which 19 investors lost approximately $5.6 million, law enforcement officials said.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 14, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “FCC Overreach: Examining the Proposed Privacy Rules."
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLOS GABRIEL ESTEVEZ, 24, formerly of Ozone Park, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 126 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Reuben Jackson, 52, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment with three counts of bank robbery, for three bank robberies that occurred in Center City Philadelphia in April and May 2016, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and FBI Special Agent-in-Charge William F. Sweeney.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), has scheduled a full committee markup on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, to consider several bills including landmark mental health legislation. Details on the time and location will be posted here, as they become...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Harrisburg man has pled guilty before United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg to committing 14 bank robberies in four central Pennsylvania counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh has been indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of a federal firearm violation, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) welcomed today’s Senate passage of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act. The legislation now heads to the president to be signed into law which will culminate a multi-year effort for the committee. The House passed the bill 403-12 on May 24, 2016.
