News from March 2016
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of a nearly yearlong effort to obtain information regarding unlawful spending, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Committee on Ways and Means today issued subpoenas to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The committees have been seeking...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CHARLES ALBERT GRINDLE, age 42, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FAILURE TO REGISTER AS SEX OFFENDER, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2250(a)(1), 2250(a)(2)(B) and 2250(a)(3).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: One Defendant used Twitter to Disseminate Images of Child Rape; Second Defendant Secretly Recorded Young Teens.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Former Navy Noncommissioned Officer Sentenced to 24 Months in Prison for Accepting Bribes While Serving in Afghanistan.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Citations issued: March 28, 2016. Investigation findings: Inspectors from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Houston North Area Office initiated an inspection of a Houston Garden Center location after receiving a complaint about an unreported hospitalization...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Terrance Bonner, 44, with possession of a prohibited object by a federal inmate, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Universal Aryan Brotherhood Member Sentenced to 262 Months in Prison for Racketeering and Related Violence.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s announcement of measures to tackle the opioid epidemic, including efforts to expand access to medication-assisted treatment, prevent overdose deaths, and support community prevention efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick announced today the sentencing of a man who was previously convicted of distributing heroin and crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joshua Dunston, 38, of Bangor, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 121 months in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for possessing child pornography and a consecutive term...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Daniel Lyons, 42, of Bangor pleaded guilty today U.S. District Court to maintaining a drug involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former insurance company service representative in Topeka was sentenced Monday to a year and a day in federal prison for embezzlement, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. In addition, she was ordered to pay $215,000 in restitution.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with Attorney General of the State of Qatar His Excellency Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri and Qatari Ambassador to the United States His Excellency Mohammed Jaham Al Kuwari to discuss a range of shared homeland security-related issues, including aviation security and counterterrorism cooperation.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Improved Conservation Measures to Take Effect on Additional 870,000 Acres WASHINGTON, March 28, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest $41 million in a three-year initiative to support the work of farmers in Ohio, ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 28, 2016 – Today, at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) urged Americans of all ages to "Plant a Window Box for Pollinators" by using a new, free online tool available at the redesigned People's Garden Initiative website.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA, March 28, 2016 – At the Operation UNITE Summit in Atlanta today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a series of upcoming rural town halls as well as funding rural communities can use to conduct health and safety outreach around prescription painkiller and heroin abuse. Opioids, including ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Kilgore Flares Company and one of its subcontractors, ESM Group Inc., have agreed to pay a total of $8 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by selling or conspiring to sell defective infrared countermeasure flares to the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, Rafael Callejas, the president of the Honduran soccer federation (FENAFUTH) from 2002 to 2015, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy in connection with his receipt of bribes in exchange for the awarding of contracts for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: A Germantown, Tennessee, resident and business owner pleaded guilty to one count of failing to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III of the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attempted to Obstruct IRS with False Tax Returns and Threatening Correspondence A Newington, Connecticut, insurance salesman was convicted of tax fraud today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut in Hartford following a seven-day jury trial, announced Acting Assistant Attorney ...
