News from March 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) - the top Democrats on committees with jurisdiction over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - today released the following joint statement to highlight the sixth anniversary of the law...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: LONDON - A Perry County couple who owned several trucking companies has been convicted of defrauding and extorting their customers.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the United States House of Representatives in support of a resolution condemning yesterday’s terrorist attacks in Brussels, Belgium (H.Res.658 )...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed the first widely useful standard for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast, a method used to identify and monitor breast cancer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Steven Robinson was sentenced to 144 months imprisonment today. Kyle Turner and Hali Wilson were each sentenced earlier this month to 84 months in prison. Additionally, each defendant was ordered to pay $8,150 restitution to the family of the deceased victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Bentleyville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of theft, embezzlement, and misappropriation by a bank employee, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that David Christman Berg, Jr., age 55, of Hilton Head Island, South Carolina was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina for Possession of Child Pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2252A(a)(5)(B).
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Proposed penalties: $41,580. Quote: "Alton Industries Inc. continues to put its employees in considerable danger despite previous violations for unsafe and potentially lethal excavation work. This practice will not be tolerated," said Christopher Robinson, director of OSHA's Pittsburgh Area Office. "Without...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Joshua James Morrow, 28, a Federal Bureau of Prisons inmate housed at the Centerstone Halfway House in Marion, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with escaping from that facility, announced James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Financial Services Company Executive Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of Justice.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Nico Mexi Foods Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Chinese national pleaded guilty today to participating in a years-long conspiracy to hack into the computer networks of major United States defense contractors, steal sensitive military and export-controlled data, and send the stolen information to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that EDMUND QUINCY MUNTSLAG, a citizen of Suriname, was found guilty yesterday in Manhattan federal court of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States. The four-day jury trial was held before U.S. District Judge Shira A. Scheindlin.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former State of Tennessee probation officer has pleaded guilty in a tax fraud scheme that defrauded the government of more than $50,000. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the plea today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Thank you for yielding Mr. Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Anderson Bryan Lever (39, Colombia, South America) today pleaded guilty to conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. He faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Cincinnati...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Marco Antonio Lam Peralta, 42, of South Londonderry, Vermont was arrested yesterday based upon an arrest warrant issued by the United States District Court upon a Criminal Complaint charging Lam Peralta with conspiracy to distribute heroin, a schedule I controlled substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner of multiple U.S.-based energy companies has pleaded guilty to foreign bribery and fraud charges for his role in a scheme to corruptly secure energy contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 9:30 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “The Administration’s Plan to Close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility: At What Foreign Policy and National Security Cost? " Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
