News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Sixteen alleged members of the Gangster Disciples, a nationwide violent criminal organization, have been indicted for allegedly conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. Dozens of alleged Gangster Disciples members have also been arrested in Atlanta, Georgia, on a separate...
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After requesting information and documents for over a year regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued subpoenas to...
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today released the following statement in response to partisan subpoenas issued by Chairmen Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Fred Upton (R-MI), requiring the U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After requesting information and documents for over a year regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued subpoenas to...
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After requesting information and documents for over a year regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued subpoenas to...
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the committee’s broad review of concussions, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), announced today it will hold a hearing on concussions in youth sports next Friday. The hearing will build upon the committee’s first roundtable...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal Grand Jury in Scranton indicted Damone Whitley, age 22, on May 3, 2016, with making false statements to a federally licensed firearms dealer.
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: More than $360,000 awarded to 17 projects that promote urban outreach, youth engagement and connecting people to the outdoors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 31-year-old Tango Blast gang member has been ordered to federal prison for 15 years following his convictions in two separate indictments, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. William Chance Wallace, of Victoria, pleaded guilty Feb. 10, 2016, to witness retaliation and being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROY AUSTIN, 69, of St. Tammany Parish and a retired Colonel of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO"), pled guilty today to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Maurice J. Sinkfield, 33, of Cleveland, with assaulting federal officers as well as firearms offenses, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 11, 2016, at 10 a.m. in Room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building, entitled “Health Care Solutions: Increasing Patient Choice and Plan Innovation."
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today responded to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement that it is expanding the recall of an additional estimated 35 million Takata airbags.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A previous convicted sex offender, who due to her previous criminal conduct was required to register as a sex offender, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke for failing to maintain her sex offender registration, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today responded to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) announcement that it is expanding the recall of an additional estimated 35 million Takata airbags.
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As youth Spring football games begin around the nation, Democratic leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent letters to collegiate and youth football leaders asking how they plan to prevent and mitigate the risks of degenerative brain disorders for student-athletes.
By USDA Newswire | May 3, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, May 3, 2016 - U.S. Department of Agriculture Undersecretary Kevin Concannon today announced that approximately $2 million in grants is available to help state agencies retain young children in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program through...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang today sentenced Samantha Lealoha Watanabe, 38, of Oahu, to 30 days of imprisonment and one year of supervised release, including 90 days of home detention for assaulting her 15-month old child while onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu on March 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that MICHAEL MENDEZ of Houston, Texas, age 52, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine hydrochloride (“powder cocaine").
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Chicago man was sentenced today to 89 months in prison for his role in a large-scale, long-running, and lucrative scheme to steal bank customer account information - commonly referred to as “ATM skimming" - by installing hidden card-reading devices on ATMs throughout New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Florida, and elsewhere, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
