News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Originally Charged with Providing Material Support to ISIL.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding EPA’s proposed 2017 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., physician has pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements in order to receive payments on health care claims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Drug and medical device company B. Braun Medical Inc. (B. Braun) has agreed to pay $4.8 million in penalties and forfeiture and up to an additional $3 million in restitution to resolve its criminal liability for selling contaminated B. Braun pre-filled saline flush syringes in 2007, the Department of Justice announced today.
By EPA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today passed two bipartisan energy bills that protect jobs, public health, and the economy. The committee advanced H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016 by a vote of 30 to 23 and unanimously passed H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Hazleton man pleaded guilty to a Criminal Information charging him with a heroin trafficking offense.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: In early June, trail crews will begin constructing an official trail and overlook to replace the many existing social trails on the hills south of Grand Prismatic Spring. During construction, three areas will be closed to the public.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Athol, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Claim and False Statement.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today passed two bipartisan energy bills that protect jobs, public health, and the economy. The committee advanced H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016 by a vote of 30 to 23 and unanimously passed H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., physician has pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements in order to receive payments on health care claims.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Esteban Ramos-Cruz, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy (RICO), was sentenced to 30 years by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at the Energy and Commerce Committee markup of H.R. 4775, the “Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016;" and H.R. 4979, the “Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016":
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today announced a full committee hearing entitled “Moving America’s Families Forward: Setting Priorities for Reducing Poverty and Expanding Opportunity" on Tuesday, May 24, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office...
By Homeland Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: ROME - A 1493 copy of Christopher Columbus' letter describing his discoveries in the Americas was returned Wednesday to the government of Italy by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). An investigation conducted by HSI revealed that the letter, bound in a volume, was stolen from the Riccardiana Library in Florence, Italy, at an unknown time and later donated to the U.S. Library of Congress in 2004.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GROSS WILLIAMS, age 49, and his wife, KATHLEEN WILLIAMS, age 46, both residents of New Orleans, pled guilty today. GROSS WILLIAMS pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute a kilogram or more of heroin and five kilograms or more of cocaine, as well as illegal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Jermaine Ayers Admits to Distributing Cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Zion National Park will be implementing a series of five small prescribed fires totaling 21 acres this spring in Zion Canyon. The locations of the burns are in the vicinity of Zion Lodge and near the main park visitor center. The first of these burns is planned on or after May 23, 2016. Exact dates of...
By DOE Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statements responding to EPA’s proposed rule setting out the 2017 requirements for the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Bullitt County, Kentucky, man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison, followed by a life-time of supervised release, by Senior United States District Judge Thomas B. Russell, for the production of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, at 2:00 PM, in the East Millinocket Town Office, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources will hold an oversight hearing on “Elevating Local Voices and Promoting Transparency for a Potential Monument Designation in Maine.".
