News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statements after the House of Representatives passed four bipartisan bills to improve access to health care and promote proven local solutions to strengthen families.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Appleton...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Bassem Kuran, 23, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty on June 28, 2016 to criminal Information charging him with false statements in a health care matter, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of 5 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a $250,000 fine, and a $100 special assessment. U.S. District Court Judge Gerald J. Pappert scheduled a sentencing hearing for Sept. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - The British man who was arrested two weeks ago at a Donald Trump rally in Las Vegas after he attempted to seize a law enforcement officer’s firearm, was indicted by the federal grand jury today on three felony charges, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Tysin L. Gordon, 30, of Columbus, was sentenced to 96 months in prison in connection with a racketeering case involving the organized criminal enterprise known as the Short North Posse.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former pharmaceutical employee today admitted accepting thousands of dollars in exchange for obtaining and filling her own medically unnecessary prescriptions for compounded medication and creams, causing losses of $250,971, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park will continue accepting comments through July 12, 2016 on a proposal to increase fees at frontcountry campgrounds and picnic pavilions along with proposed changes to the management of three campgrounds by adding them to the national reservation system through Recreation.gov.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: HEBRON, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued 57 citations for safety violations to Sunfield Inc., an Ohio auto parts' manufacturer. The agency has also proposed the company pay more than $3.42 million in total fines for its failure to disconnect machinery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Long Branch, New Jersey, man today admitted using his computer to possess and distribute images of child sexual abuse via a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: A woman who lied to a Deputy United States Marshal about the location of a federal fugitive pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a roundtable discussion on Wednesday to discuss what measures should be taken to best protect the nation from the Zika virus. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a large-scale conspiracy that distributed more than 15 kilograms of methamphetamine in St. Joseph, Mo., and across a four-state region.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Petra Del Bosque and Anita Arredondo, both 55 and from Zapata, have been sentenced following their convictions related to a long-running bank fraud scheme targeting Zapata National Bank (ZNB), announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Arredondo and Del Bosque pleaded guilty in February and January 2015, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former director of Samsung America Inc.’s Korea Export Department was sentenced today to 75 months in prison for his role in a scheme to embezzle more than $1 million from the company from 2002 through 2007, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DONALD GEORGE BUTLER, JR., age 52, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to failing to register as sex offender, in violation of federal law.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Flanked by House Leadership and Members of the Republican Conference, Ways and Means Committee Chairman and leader of the Tax Reform Task Force Kevin Brady (R-TX) unveiled “A Better Way for Tax Reform," a bold Blueprint for pro-growth, comprehensive tax reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest of Armed Robbery Crew.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. - Federal investigators have determined a Michigan janitor was labeled a troublemaker and subjected to a continuing litany of adverse personnel actions by the Dearborn Heights School District after she complained about exposure to asbestos while cleaning school floor tiles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that Noe Juarez, a resident of Houston, Texas, was sentenced today by a U.S. District Chief Judge to serve 365 months in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Morgan County man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to sexual exploitation of a child for videotaping a 13-year-old girl undressing and stepping into a shower, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Stan Stabler.
