News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - Fifty-two year old Floyd E. Roberts III of Treasure Island, FL, remains missing in western Grand Canyon. Today's responding resources include seven ground teams and the National Park Service (NPS) helicopter. Searchers from Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and Mohave County are helping the Grand Canyon National Park Search and Rescue team. The NPS is also consulting with Coconino County Search and Rescue.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Part of a broader effort to provide Americans with greater access, choice, and flexibility in health care, the House today passed the Small Business Health Care Relief Act (H.R. 5447 ), bipartisan legislation that will restore the ability of small businesses to offer their employees Health Reimbursement Arrangements (HRAs) without being penalized.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the subcommittee will continue its ongoing oversight of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) at a July 12, 2016, hearing featuring all five FCC commissioners.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEVEN RAWLINS, a former Chief Financial Officer to two healthcare services companies based outside Nashville, Tennessee, was sentenced to nine years in prison and $10,110,577.09 in forfeiture for engaging...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Beginning June 24, the Find Your Park Concert Series will offer free public concerts throughout the summer at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). The venue will be either the Platte River or D. H. Day Campground Amphitheaters (see individual listings for details). A park pass is required. All concerts begin at 8:00 p.m. and will last about an hour.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: BOISE - The United States Attorney’s Office and the United States Marshals Service are advising Idaho residents to be aware of telephone calls threatening individuals of a pending arrest warrant. Calls have been reported in the Boise, Pocatello and Twin Falls area.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Forty-eight House Democrats - led by House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Alan S. Lowenthal (D-Calif.) - sent a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell today to thank her for reviewing...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: “Mr. Speaker, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program expires at the end of September. We need to extend this program, and this legislation accomplishes that goal.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Tomorrow, at 11:30 a.m. in a signing ceremony at the White House, the Frank Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act will clear its final hurdle and be signed into law. The landmark update to the nation’s chemical safety laws has been a top priority for House Energy and Commerce...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury today found Congressman Chaka Fattah Sr., 59, guilty of all charges against him. He and three of his four associates were found guilty of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy involving several schemes that were intended to further their political and financial interests...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - This morning, United States District Judge Robin Cauthron sentenced MICHAEL STEVEN MORGAN, 61, of Stillwater, Oklahoma, to serve 18 months in federal prison following his conviction for bribery in 2012, announced Mark A. Yancey, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: 21,866 Hydrocodone pills prescribed during 9 month period.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Late yesterday afternoon, following a one week trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against James Cureton for drug and firearm related murder and drug trafficking. The charges arose out of the defendant’s participation in a murder that took place in Albany, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Jason Wayne Russell, 38, of Moorefield, WV and Brandon David Fout, 20, of Old Fields, WV, with heroin trafficking, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Robert Storey, 44, of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to wire fraud. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, along with Senators Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), commented on a Government Accountability Office (GAO)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: A 22-count indictment was returned charging a Cleveland Heights man with identity theft and tax violations, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Kathy A Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Anthony J. Natale, of Warren, pleaded guilty today to one count of conveying false information related to the use of a weapon of mass destruction, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Three Mississippi Correctional Officers Indicted for Inmate Assault and Cover-Up.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 21, 2016
News Release: Greensboro, N.C. - Two Lee County men were recently sentenced in federal court, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina Ripley Rand announced today.
