News from March 2016
By EPA 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), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: “Good Morning. I do not understand why we are here. The Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee does not have jurisdiction over future legislation, over freedom of speech, or college curriculum or school resources.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman and welcome Mr. Secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Richard Robinson, 58, of Alexandria, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison and five years of supervised release for receipt of child pornography. Robinson was also ordered to register as a sex offender upon release from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that an inmate at a state prison was charged yesterday by a federal grand jury in Scranton with mailing a threatenting letter to a Lancaster County Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that Jeremiah Hunter was arrested on a complaint for Receipt of Child Pornography in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 2252(a)(2)(A).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 2, 2016
News Release: On April 23-24, 2016, Gettysburg National Military Park will host their inaugural Spring Battlefield Foray, a special weekend of unique hikes and walks that will focus on the "Armies at War, " the organization, tools, and tactics utilized by the two armies that fought at Gettysburg. Co-hosted by the Gettysburg Foundation, this event will bring together park rangers, historians, and licensed battlefield guides to provide a special and in-depth experience.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Mar. 1, 2016, Brian Scott Witham, 45, of Waterville, Maine, pleaded guilty to charges contained in a December 2015, 15-count indictment involving armed bank extortions of the Y-12 Federal Credit Union in Oak Ridge, Tenn., SmartBank in Knoxville, Tenn., and Northeast Community Credit Union in Elizabethton, Tenn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Agency Village, South Dakota, man has been charged with an Information for Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding; Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer; and Simple Assault.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded $1.1 million to GovReady PBC, based in Silver Spring, Md., to provide tools that improve accessibility ...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON DC – Applications are now being accepted through March 9, 2016 for the NextGen First Responder Technologies solicitation , an opportunity for joint-funding by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and their partners in the Israeli Ministry of Public Security.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Mar. 1, 2016 – The Obama Administration announced today that the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council chair position will rotate from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, effective March 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates and Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced that New Orleans, Louisiana, St. Louis, Missouri, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will join 10 existing sites which have adopted crime-fighting strategies as part of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Olympus Corp. of the Americas, Nation’s Largest Distributor of Endoscopes, Also Agrees to Reforms and Subsidiary Admits to Foreign Bribery The United States’ largest distributor of endoscopes and related equipment will pay $623.2 million to resolve criminal charges and civil claims relating to a scheme ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: The principal of a series of dietary ingredient companies in New Jersey pleaded guilty today in connection with the sale of methamphetamine precursor chemicals, a separate scheme to defraud purchasers of dietary supplements and money laundering, the Department of Justice announced. “The Department of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Exported High-Tech Material Used in Missile Production and Nuclear Applications Earlier today Erdal Kuyumcu, 44, of Woodside, New York, was arrested on charges of illegally exporting a cobalt-nickel metallic powder from the United States to Iran, through an intermediary in Turkey. Kuyumcu will make his initial appearance this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes Jr. of the Eastern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Michael Daniel Rubens, 31, formerly of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, a $15,000 fine and $1,550 in restitution for cyberstalking, unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Christopher P. Canova for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: Aubrey K. McClendon has been charged by a federal grand jury with conspiring to rig bids for the purchase of oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: A Cuban national who fled the United States and had been wanted since 2013 on federal criminal charges relating to a multimillion-dollar health care fraud scheme in the greater Tampa Bay, Florida, area pleaded guilty today for his role in the scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2016
News Release: PDF version of the brief recently filed in United States v. State of Texas.
