News from May 2016
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today approved two bipartisan bills, H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016 and H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Allen, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register.
By USDA Newswire | May 12, 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 the Committee will hold a hearing on the Farm Credit System.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Tyrone Smith, 46, of Lansing, Michigan, received a sentence of 25 years in federal prison for sex trafficking numerous women and one minor, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. In November 2015, Smith pled guilty to two counts of using force, threats, fraud, and coercion...
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Coming on the heels of the House’s passage of H.R. 4641, legislation offered by committee members Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) to establish an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and how pain medication is prescribed, the House passed 10 more Energy and Commerce Committee bills to combat the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Blair County resident was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) announced today that Brenda Montgomery, 57, of Walnut Ridge, Peggy Sutton, 61, of Biggers...
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) efforts to enhance trade facilitation and enforce U.S. trade laws, including the implementation of the Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: 6 Additional Defendants Charged By Statewide Prosecutors For Participating In Food Stamp Fraud Schemes.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I am pleased and proud to release to the public today our new mission statement for the Department of Homeland Security: “With honor and integrity, we will safeguard the American people, our homeland, and our values.” This statement is intended ...
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 WASHINGTON – Today, Deputy Under Secretary for Science and Technology Dr. Robert Griffin announced the launch of a new take on the Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) annual Year in Review at the Internet of Things (IoT) World Forum in Santa Clara, California. The interactive, web-based report provides a guided tour of S&T’s successes and developments in 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Three employees at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have been named finalists for the 2016 Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals, known as the Sammies: Tate Jarrow, U.S. Secret Service; Mariela Melero, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS); and Ajay Bhatt, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
By USDA Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 11, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued the following statement today on the departure of Arthur "Butch" Blazer, Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment. Mr. Blazer's final day with USDA will be Friday, May 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury in the District of Nevada returned a superseding indictment on May 10 charging a Las Vegas woman with two counts of filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden of the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Used Fraudulent Scheme to Import Foreign University Students in Furtherance of Prostitution and Erotic Massage Enterprise Jeffrey Jason Cooper, 46, of Miami Beach, Florida, was charged late yesterday in an 11-count indictment in the Southern District of Florida with sex trafficking ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and U. S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South Carolina announced today that a federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging former North Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: A federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging 50 members of La Asociación ÑETA with racketeering, drug trafficking and murder, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico. The defendants include the leadership of the enterprise, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Defendant Allegedly Contributed Funds to Send a Co-Conspirator Overseas to Join ISIL and to Finance the Purchase of a Firearm Once the Co-Conspirator Arrived in Syria A superseding indictment was unsealed in the Eastern District of New York charging Azizjon Rakhmatov, 28, an Uzbeki national, with conspiring ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in New Orleans, Louisiana, returned an indictment on May 6, which was unsealed today, against a LaPlace, Louisiana, woman charging her with 37 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, eight counts of contempt of court, one count of bank fraud ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Highly Profitable Scheme Prostituted Foreign Nationals and South Florida Residents Miguel A. Hernandez, 50, of Miami Beach, Florida, pleaded guilty today to charges arising from his operation of an enterprise that profited from the prostitution of multiple women, including foreign nationals and Miami-area ...
