News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that James Ainsworth (age 39) of Milwaukee pleaded guilty in federal court to filing false federal income tax returns and aggravated identity theft in connection with the filing of those returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Former Chief Executive Officer Sentenced to Over Seven Years in Prison for Illegally Exporting Technology Equipment to China and Money Laundering.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill, introduced by members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, to strengthen the Medicaid program and improve access to care for patients who need it most.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago Police officer was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for using excessive force against an employee of a Southeast Side convenience store.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TREY MITCHELL, age 24, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for attempted distribution of heroin using a cell phone smuggled into the Orleans Parish Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Dear Ambassador Ahn: I am writing to express my continuing concerns regarding full and faithful implementation of and compliance with the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS). As you know, I am a strong supporter of the economic relationship between the United States and Korea and worked hard to...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Minnesota Resident Pleads Guilty to Threatening Two Clinics that Provide Reproductive Health Services.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - In a partnership between the National Park Service (NPS) and Google, Steamtown National Historic Site will be featured in the Google Cultural Institute, a digital platform which makes hundreds of historically and culturally significant objects in the National Park Service's museum collection...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that DAVID E. RAYMOND, 75, of Glastonbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 10 months of imprisonment, followed by two years of supervised release, for purposefully engaging in cash transactions at banks in order to avoid the filing of reports.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging an employee of the U.S. Postal Service for opening a package that contained Oxycodone, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington County, Pa., has pleaded guilty to charges of travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, March 2, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 10 states have been selected to take part in SNAP to Skills, a first-of-its-kind, peer-to-peer effort to help state agencies design improved employment and training programs for adults participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in order to help them find employment and ultimately move off the SNAP program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Ashley Marie Gnocchini, 29, of Cheektowaga, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, was sentenced to 15 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill, introduced by members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, to strengthen the Medicaid program and improve access to care for patients who need it most.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Zika virus. Nine witnesses provided testimony, including Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill, introduced by members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, to strengthen the Medicaid program and improve access to care for patients who need it most.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources questioned witnesses from the three major federal agencies on the President’s 2017 budget and the Administration’s overly-prescriptive federal regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Audrey Obin Admits to Conspiring to Obtain False Tax Refunds.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 3716, the Ensuring Access to Quality Medicaid Providers Act, by a unanimous vote of 406-0. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Dr. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), ...
