News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Arlene Combs, 31, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of racketeering, was sentenced today to 240 months by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Illegally collected Supplemental Social Security benefits for nearly six years.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: *Updated: Burn will occur on Monday, April 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MELKUAN SCOTT, also known as “Young God," “Mel," “Young" and “YG," 25, of Hartford and Andover, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by seven years of supervised release, for heading a gang-related narcotics trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Carlos Garcia, 29, was sentenced to 48 months years in prison for making false statements in connection to the March 8, 2012, assault of a gay African-American man in Corpus Christi, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding CMS’s plan to illegally divert as much...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) will hold a panel discussion entitled, “Conversation on Child Cures" tomorrow, Wednesday, March 23, 2016, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on the administration’s fiscal year 2017...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today funding for 24 American Indian and Alaska Native communities to deploy clean energy and energy efficiency projects. DOE plans to invest over $9 million in 16 facility- and community-scale energy projects in 24 tribal communities.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: OSHKOSH - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said this Tuesday morning in reaction to the terror attacks in Brussels...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: (Bangor, Maine - Kliton Xhemali, 32, of Bangor pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine on Tuesday to distribution of cocaine. Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced the plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Michael A. Southerland, 26, of Twin Falls County, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday in United States District Court to unlawful possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Southerland was indicted by a federal grand jury on Nov. 10, 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members examined various issues related to the FCC’s policy decisions and the process by which it reaches them, including FCC process reform, the FCC’s actions regarding set top boxes, and Commissioner Wheeler’s proposal to impose new privacy rules on Internet service providers (ISPs).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. -. The Bureau of Reclamation and Klamath Irrigation District will hold a second negotiation session on a proposed Extraordinary Operation and Maintenance. Contract for the C Flume. KID members voted on March 8, 2016 to enter into this contract with Reclamation to replace the 94-year-old...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and the Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing with Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy on the administration’s fiscal year 2017...
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10:45 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to examine the important roles women play in ending conflict and promoting security, and the implications of women’s participation in conflicts like the Syrian civil war. The hearing, entitled “Women Fighting for Peace: Lessons for Today’s Conflicts, " is the third hearing in a series to examine the challenges facing women and girls around the globe.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. Members examined various issues related to the FCC’s policy decisions and the process by which it reaches them, including FCC process reform, the FCC’s actions regarding set top boxes, and Commissioner Wheeler’s proposal to impose new privacy rules on Internet service providers (ISPs).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: (HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Melkuan Scott, also known as “Young God," “Mel," “Young" and “YG," 25, of Hartford and Andover, ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation released the Columbia Basin Climate Impact Assessment today, which projected climate change impacts on water resources in the Pacific Northwest, including Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Washington.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a stunning reversal during today’s Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on oversight of the Federal Communications Commission, Chairman Tom Wheeler admitted that he wants the FCC to have the ability to regulate broadband rates.
