News from June 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew M. Slavitt requesting additional information on Medicaid...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: ATF Task Force seized more than 200 grams of crack cocaine, $21,000 in cash and a loaded firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that former Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office Detective DAWN C. FORET, age 38, of Houma, was charged today in a one count Bill of Information for theft of government funds.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Two incidents this past week are prompting Denali National Park and Preserve staff to remind visitors to use caution and practice proper behavior in bear habitat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Tanisha Phelps, 20, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to time served, 11 months, including six months in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal jail and five months in federal custody, for assault with a dangerous weapon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: FORT WAYNE - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Miguel Verduzco Velazquez, 35, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge Theresa L. Springmann for possessing with the intent to distribute 1 kilogram or more of heroin and illegal reentry into the United States after conviction and removal for an aggravated felony.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Alamogordo, NM. On Saturday July 2 and Sunday July 3, White Sands National Monument, Western National Parks Association, and White Sands Trading Company will host a Mexican & American Indian Art Market at the visitor center from 10:00 am-5:00 pm. Experience the rich culture of Northern Chihuahua and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Capri M. Williams, 25, of Richmond, pleaded guilty today to identity theft and bank fraud charges related to her stealing personal identifying information (PII) of hundreds of patients while employed at Commonwealth Primary Care (CPC), Inc., in Richmond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WICHITA FALLS, Texas - Kimberly Paulk Shaffer, 44, of Dallas, Texas, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor to 168 months in federal prison, following her guilty plea in February 2016 to one count of conspiracy to distribute a schedule II controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requesting a briefing on a current proposal before the commission.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requesting a briefing on a current proposal before the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: Transported Juvenile and Adult Females and Coerced them into Prostitution.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today continued their efforts seeking answers about the FDA’s procedures to product trade secret and confidential information in the food industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Dylan Allen Jeffries, 26, of Clifton Forge, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for coercion or enticement of a minor. Jeffries was also sentenced to 10 years of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Following an eight-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater, a federal jury has convicted two men who were on a flight last year that was diverted to Amarillo on the felony offense of interference with a flight crew and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requesting a briefing on a current proposal before the commission.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced today that on June 23, 2016, Brad Calvin Titchener, 48, was convicted following a two-day jury trial in United States District Court in Cheyenne, Wyoming, of being felon and unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today sent a letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) requesting a briefing on a current proposal before the commission.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell applauded President Obama’s historic designation of Stonewall National Monument, the first national monument that honors the history of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community in the United States. Today’s designation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Demetres Ish, 23, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to seven months in prison for assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Ish served an additional month on this charge in the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal jail. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Ish to serve three years of supervised release. Ish pleaded guilty to the charge on April 13, 2016.
