News from May 2016
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) on Tuesday will officially launch the Pediatric Trauma Caucus with a briefing featuring an all-star panel of experts. NASCAR Team Owner, Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee, and Co-Founder of the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma, Richard Childress will headline the briefing discussion.
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after language was finalized on a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Elmar Rakhamimov, a/k/a “Eric Rakhamimov," age 43, of Owings Mills, Maryland, to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to possess and distribute over $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes; and for trafficking and distributing oxycodone. Judge Motz imposed the sentence on May 20, 2016, and entered an order requiring Rakhamimov to pay restitution of $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury and Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC) and Rep. G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) on Tuesday will officially launch the Pediatric Trauma Caucus with a briefing featuring an all-star panel of experts. NASCAR Team Owner, Motorsports Hall of Fame Inductee, and Co-Founder of the Childress Institute for Pediatric Trauma, Richard Childress will headline the briefing discussion.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Naturalist Programs at Tucson Mountain District (West: 2700 N. Kinney Rd, Tucson Az. 85743).
By DOE Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report today concluding that the National Football League (NFL) improperly attempted to influence the grant review process for a National Institutes of Health (NIH) brain injury study that the NFL had agreed to fund as part of a $30 million donation.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after language was finalized on a bicameral, bipartisan agreement on reforming the Toxic Substances Control Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - An inmate at Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. was charged today with threatening to kill the President of the United States.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Patchogue, NY - On Friday, May 27, the William Floyd Estate opens for the summer season. A new exhibit honoring the National Park Service (NPS) Centennial will feature 100 never-before-seen items from Fire Island National Seashore's museum collection and will be on display in the Estate's Old Mastic House.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DA’QUAN JOHNSON was sentenced on Friday, May 20, 2016, in White Plains federal court to a prison term of 30 years for crimes committed as part of a Yonkers-based street gang, the “Grimy Motherfuckers" (“GMF")...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raiff Harland Hayes, 25, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty in federal court this morning to discharging a firearm during the robbery of a commercial business. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Hayes will be sentenced to ten years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone released the following statement on the introduction of bipartisan legislation and a bipartisan manager’s amendment to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 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 to review the U.S. livestock and poultry sectors.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Columbia, SC - United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that former Richland County Sheriff’s Deputy Maribel Crespo, age 40, of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to 12 months and one day imprisonment for her role in multiple fraud schemes, including trafficking in counterfeit goods, impersonating...
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tonight, the House overwhelmingly approved the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act - or the SANDy Act, which was introduced last year by Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ). Pallone gave the following statement on the House floor during debate on the bill...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) called on the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Office of Management and Budget to immediately produce all subpoenaed...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Spokane- Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Larry Gutierrez, age 50, of Bremerton, Washington, pled guilty to the criminal charge of production of child pornography. United States District Judge Salvador Mendoza, Jr. accepted Gutierrez’s guilty plea and scheduled a sentencing hearing for Aug. 23, 2016, at 11:15 a.m. in Spokane, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: Charges Arise out of Seizure of 65 Pounds of Methamphetamine.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2016
News Release: ARCATA, Calif. - Anyone interested in public lands in Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Trinity, Siskiyou, Butte and Tehama counties has an opportunity to share with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) their values regarding these lands, in a public meeting. The meeting will be held Tuesday, June 14, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the BLM Arcata Field Office, 1695 Heindon Road, in Arcata.
