News from June 2016
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today received testimony on a bipartisan discussion draft entitled the “Wildfire Budgeting, Response and Forest Management Act" , which would address the serious challenges of wildfire funding and forest management. Murkowski released the draft bill on May 25, 2016 with Ranking Member Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.; Jim Risch, R-Idaho; and Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on June 21, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury returned a six-count indictment yesterday charging two Dallas men, Victor Manuel Solorzano, 30, and his cousin, Edgar Solorzano, 23, on felony offenses stemming from their Nov. 19, 2015, armed assault of two federal law enforcement officers in southwest Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Timmy Adam Allen, 51, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today to four months in prison for social security fraud, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Allen to pay restitution to the Social Security Administration. Allen pleaded guilty on Jan. 28, 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Representatives from the nation’s top cable and satellite television providers today testified before Congress on customer service issues for the first time, as an extensive investigation led by U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill has examined thousands of internal documents from the companies, pulling back the curtain on the providers’ internal workings.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today announced staff changes for the Committee.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to examine the Department of Education’s steps to implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). The committee heard from Secretary of Education John B. King, Jr., as well as state and local leaders who echoed members’ concerns regarding the department’s accountability and “supplement, not supplant" proposals.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced the remainder of committee activities for the week have been postponed. Among those activities are today’s full committee markup and tomorrow’s #SubHealth hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, released the following statement after Secretary of Education John King concluded his testimony addressing implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch Announces Extradition of Five Defendants Charged in Connection with Mexican Sex Trafficking Enterprise.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -With the boating season in full swing at Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway, rangers remind local residents and visitors to operate their boats safely and help prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. Rangers will participate in Operation Dry Water, a nationwide awareness effort to promote boating safety, this weekend, June 24 through June 26.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - The Select Investigative Panel today issued a criminal referral to New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas detailing evidence that the University of New Mexico (UNM) and Southwestern Women’s Options (SWWO) may have violated New Mexico’s Jonathan Spradling Revised Uniform Anatomical...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -The annual John Colter Day will be held Monday, June 27, at Colter Bay Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park. Colter explored the vast Yellowstone country during the winter of 1807-1808, and was likely the first European to ever travel the region. This marks the ninth year that Grand Teton has offered special presentations to highlight the life of John Colter and the mountain men of the 1800s.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jesse Lucio, 39, formerly of Chadron, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 19 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for the production of child pornography. Following his release from prison, Lucio will serve 10 years on supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of selling and offering for sale drug paraphernalia, conspiracy to sell and offer for sale drug paraphernalia, and trademark counterfeiting, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SHANQUITTA JONES-DILLON, age 40, of Buras, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Act to designate a national monument on approximately 85,000 acres of federal land in Southern Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Oak Brook couple who owned First Mutual Bancorp of Illinois and other financial entities intentionally hid cash and assets from creditors after defaulting on $40 million in personal and corporate loans, according to an indictment returned in federal court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301 individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services...
