News from June 2016
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Despite House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders granting the Obama administration one final chance to provide basic information regarding the Transitional Reinsurance Program, the administration has once again declined to cooperate and share information. Over the last several months, ...
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 EPA Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today announced that the House and Senate Opioid Conference Committee will meet Wednesday, July 6 at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) appointed House conferees last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Federal criminal complaints have been filed charging six Prince George’s County men with gun and drug crimes, as a result of a joint investigation by ATF, DEA and the Prince George’s County Police Department that targeted armed drug dealers in Prince George’s County.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following statement after the Senate’s vote to move forward with a bipartisan proposal to protect the use of agriculture biotechnology and to ensure consumers have access to the information they want.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Jordan Caruso, 41, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced today for the robbery of a Bank of America branch location in September 2015. Senior United States District Judge Steven J.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced John Dwayne Riley (39, Palm Bay) to 12 years and 6 months in federal prison for possessing more than 500 grams of cocaine with the intent to distribute it, and for possessing a firearm in furtherance of that drug-trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, Kristopher Andrew Jaramillo, 39, of Albuquerque, N. M., not a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 151 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. Jaramillo had previously pleaded guilty to bank robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Despite House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders granting the Obama administration one final chance to provide basic information regarding the Transitional Reinsurance Program, the administration has once again declined to cooperate and share information. Over the last several months, ...
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.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech today on the Senate floor, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said that, given the lack of other options, the Senate should act in the best interest of Puerto Rico and support the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Federal criminal complaints have been filed charging six Prince George’s County men with gun and drug crimes, as a result of a joint investigation by ATF, DEA and the Prince George’s County Police Department that targeted armed drug dealers in Prince George’s County.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and full committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the FDA’s creation of an Oncology Center of Excellence. The announcement came as part of Vice President Biden’s cancer moon shot initiative.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Thursday, July 7 entitled “Demanding Accountability: The Administration’s Reckless Release of Terrorists from Guantanamo." The hearing will begin at 10 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) released a report on the economic impact of our nation’s past trade agreements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: Admits to Igniting Fire that Destroyed the Quality Inn Hotel in Carlsbad.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Cranberry Twp, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of tax violations, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: What underlies this debate, in my view, is the fact that the U.S. is in an era of miracle treatments and cures. There are drugs on the market today and close on the horizon that were science fiction not too long ago. The question now is whether Americans will be able to afford them. These treatments threaten to become a major strain on our health care programs, on insurers, and on family budgets across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Greenfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to attempting to entice two teenage victims to engage in illicit sexual activity.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 28, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, applauded strong steps by the Department of Education to simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form to help more unaccompanied homeless students apply for and receive the financial aid necessary to pursue a higher education.
