News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The pest control corporation Terminix International Company LP TERMINIX LP) and its U.S. Virgin Islands operation Terminix International USVI LLC(TERMINIX, USVI), were charged today with multiple violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act for illegally applying...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: On Saturday, April 16, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. area educators are invited to attend a special workshop on conducting outdoor field investigations. Participants will try a wide variety of hands-on activities that they, in turn, can use with their students. Activities...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Defendant Used Some Proceeds to Pay Restitution in Earlier Court Case.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes a $52,000 civil penalty against The Home Depot, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four individuals were indicted by a federal grand jury today in two separate and unrelated conspiracies to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo., and in Greene County, Mo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A postal clerk was indicted today on a federal charge of stealing more than $13,000 from the Rock, Kan., post office where she worked, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Jose Angel Lucio, 34, of Ogden, Utah, was sentenced today to 39 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Lucio to serve three years of supervised release. Lucio pleaded guilty on December 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: OXFORD, Mississippi - Tammi Henderson Palasini, 53, of Indianola, Mississippi, plead guilty today in the Northern District of Mississippi to Count One of the attached Indictment which charged her with devising and executing a scheme to defraud investors, including U.S. Military veterans, through the use of the U.S. Mail, in violation of 18 U.S.C. 1341.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today issued the following statement commending President Obama’s announcement on new actions to escalate the fight against prescription drug opioid abuse and heroin epidemic. The President announced, among other things, new efforts today to...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement on the administration’s latest efforts to combat the growing opioid epidemic...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Lara A. Stingley (619) 546-8403 or Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon J. Kimura (619) 546-9614.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Jose Angel Lucio, 34, of Ogden, Utah, was sentenced today to 39 months in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Lucio to serve three years of supervised release. Lucio pleaded guilty on December 9, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that Steven Schulze, age 29, of Laurel, Nebraska, was sentenced for his conviction of theft of property in Indian Country. Magistrate Judge Thomas D. Thalken sentenced Schulze to three years of probation and ordered him to pay restitution in the amount of $907. Schulze’s accomplice, Michael Bambery, is scheduled for sentencing on March 31, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today regarding the partisan subpoenas issued by Chairmen Fred Upton (R-MI) and Kevin Brady (R-TX), which compel the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Tuesday, March 29, 2016, Jose Luis Ponce-Pagan, 36, of Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty in federal c ourt on St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, be for e the Honorable Curtis V. Gomez to conspi racy to possess cocaine wi th the intent to distribute, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today. Sentencing is scheduled for July 28, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a convicted sex offender in Duenweg, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving child pornography over the Internet. Paul L. Sipeer, 65, of Duenweg, pleaded...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) today announced the witnesses for the upcoming Member Day hearing on Fundamental Tax Reform Proposals. Representatives Devin Nunes (R-CA), Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Rob Woodall (R-GA) will testify before the Subcommittee on their tax reform bills. This hearing is focused on legislative proposals that would move to a cash-flow or consumption-based approach to taxation.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, held a field hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in Fairbanks to examine opportunities to create jobs and strengthen national security by increasing Alaska’s resource production. The field hearing was held on Monday at the Pipeline Training Center and featured testimony from stakeholders in Alaska’s oil, gas, mineral, and economic development sectors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a defendant was sentenced Monday to 21 months in prison on one count of re-entry of a removed alien.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement on the administration’s latest efforts to combat the growing opioid epidemic...
