News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Capping a year-long investigation, special agents with the Drug Enforcement Administration have arrested four Southland men on federal narcotics and money laundering charges. The subjects of the investigation allegedly imported a powerful synthetic opiate from China and produced their own pills that were then distributed in bulk.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 4721, the Airport and Airway Extension Act of 2016. The legislation will extend key revenue provisions to support the Airport and Airway Trust Fund through March 31, 2017.
By State Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of a resolution that expresses concern regarding credible threats of state-sanctioned organ harvesting in China (H.Res.343 ) at the full Committee markup...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: This is the first Health Subcommittee hearing of the year, and it could have been an opportunity to have a fresh, constructive conversation about Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Colorado man convicted of two counts of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 7, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: “The Republicans say that they are interested in addressing poverty. But they bring forth a package of bills that would cut or end programs that have kept millions of children, seniors, and Americans with disabilities out of poverty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - William J. Richardson, age 41, of Troy, New York, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing an unregistered firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, March 16, 2016, defendant Mariely Malavet-Rivera was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve a term of imprisonment of 34 months and was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $103,632.10 for defrauding the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) released the following statement after serious allegations were raised against a sitting United States District Court Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: HOUGHTON, MICH.- Last year the National Park Service (NPS) began considering a broad range of management actions as part of determining how to manage the moose and wolf populations at Isle Royale National Park for at least the next 20 years. Following public comments and additional internal deliberations...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: A Clay County, Illinois, man was sentenced on March 15, 2016, to federal prison on gun related charges, James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a man who earlier robbed a bank in Tennessee pleaded guilty in federal court today to also robbing a bank in Thayer, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Trust Funds Diverted to Pay for Car, High-End Audio Equipment, Home Renovations and International Vacations.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Walmart continues to endanger the safety and health of its employees despite a 2013 corporate-wide settlement agreement* with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to improve safety and health conditions at all of its store locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Defendants Collectively Sentenced to Serve 231 Months in Prison, 36 Months of Probation, and Pay Over $170,000 in Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Tuesday, March 15, 2016, U.S. District Judge Max O. Cogburn, Jr. sentenced Gerald Lynn Weir, Jr., 45, of Monroe, N.C., to 216 months in prison on transportation of child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Weir was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and was ordered to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman has been charged in a scheme to embezzle more than $300,000 from her employer.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings and Rep. Brenda Lawrence, Ranking Members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and Subcommittee on the Interior, sent a letter to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder requesting that he direct 15 current and former state officials to cooperate with requests to participate in transcribed interviews and to produce all documents in their possession relating to the Flint water crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 16, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Linda Sweazy, of St. Louis County, pled guilty to a mail fraud charge involving her embezzlement from a former employer. Sweazy appeared before United States District Judge Audrey Fleissig. Sentencing has been set for June 28, 2016.
