News from May 2016
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy regarding EPA actions that could potentially undermine the stay issued by the Supreme Court on the Clean Power Plan.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following opening statement today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing on “Concussions in Youth Sports: Evaluating Prevention and Research."
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Wednesday afternoon, May 11, 2016, a federal jury in East St. Louis found William J. Mabie, 55, of Festus, Missouri, guilty of assault on a federal officer. Sentencing before the Honorable Richard H. Mills has been scheduled for June 9, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former “enforcer" of the Massachusetts Latin Kings gang pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Springfield to distributing cocaine and a federal firearm charge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Joshua T. Robinson, 36, of Colchester, Conn., was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence, R.I., on Thursday to 46 months in federal prison, followed by 10 years supervised release, for traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual activity with a girl he believed to be 14 years-old.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, CA - The body of a 53 year old male hiker was found by searchers at Panther Creek on the Middle Fork Trail in Sequoia National Park on the afternoon of Thursday, May 12, 2016. The search began after another group of hikers he had passed on the trail reported by...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: On Tuesday, during National Police Week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 125, the Bulletproof Vest Partnership Grant Program Reauthorization Act of 2015, unanimously by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Leszek Budzyna, 50, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to encouraging and inducing an alien to illegally enter the United States for financial gain, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy. The defendant was sentenced to time served.
By EPA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining concussions in youth sports, as part of the committee’s broad review of concussions. The hearing followed the committee’s first roundtable discussion held in March. The...
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee has scheduled a full committee markup on Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 5 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider two bipartisan energy bills to protect jobs, the economy, and public health. Members will convene for opening statements only on Tuesday and reconvene Wednesday, May 18, 2016 at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Creshika C. Wise, a former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Revenue Agent who impersonated a taxpayer in order to steal over $470,000, has pleaded guilty to a charge of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein sent the following message to police officers serving in Maryland.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks on the House floor during debate on the House Amendment to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-The Department of Justice and the United States Attorney’s Office announced today that M&T Bank Corp. (M&T Bank) has agreed to pay the United States $64 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured...
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: In conjunction with the National Park Service Centennial, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park announces the opening of a new exhibit on Saturday, May 28, 2016, entitled “Find Your Park - with Maps: A Cartographic History of Harpers Ferry." Located in the Information Center on Shenandoah Street, the...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: John Ryder allegedly threatened bank tellers with a machete.
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced witnesses for the Committee’s hearing on the Farm Credit System.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gill Parker Payne, 37, of Gastonia, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today in the District of New Mexico to one count of using force or threat of force to intentionally obstruct a Muslim woman, identified as K.A., in the free exercise of her religious beliefs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: A man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced May 10, 2016, to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury has indicted Daniel Barrs for willfully failing to follow anti-money laundering requirements under the Bank Secrecy Act as well as conspiracy to commit money laundering for his role in operating a money transmitting business that processed hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of financial transactions for entities located around the world.
