News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Washington County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank robbery, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Late Wednesday evening, the House of Representatives passed the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The vote scored a win for the committee’s pursuit of policies that say #Yes2Energy as the bill included language from committee member Rep. Bill Johnson’s (R-OH) H.R. 351, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Three people from Northeast Ohio were arrested this morning for their roles in a cocaine distribution conspiracy, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole S. Rendon and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Jonathan Conklin, 45, who was convicted of carjacking, was sentenced to 25 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The sentence will be served consecutive to a 25 years to life sentence Conklin received in Chautauqua County Court for murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on May 18, 2016, Charlene Mae Corona, 39, Crookston Minn., pled guilty before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to two counts of Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -Carl Switala, 34, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty yesterday to failing to register as a sex offender, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On May 18, 2016, an indictment was returned charging a Palmer couple with multiple drug and gun felonies, including one count of maintaining a drug house where a teenager overdosed and died earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that a federal grand jury in Hammond returned a two-count indictment charging a Jerald W. Markward, 62, of Saint John, Indiana with one count of theft of federal money and one count of social security fraud for allegedly applying for and receiving Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits (“SSDIB") payments despite not being eligible to receive those payments.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: **POSTPONED** Due to the forecast of rain, the movie has been postponed until June 25.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following statement today at a Health Subcommittee Hearing on “Examining H.R. 3299, the Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act."
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of an April 2016 hearing that examined the safety of U.S. bioresearch labs, Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday followed up with the heads of the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health. The letters were signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Seven Brockton residents were indicted in U.S. District Court in Boston with trafficking fentanyl and with firearms-related charges.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Obama administration appears to be circling the wagons following the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s recent report chronicling misleading testimony offered by CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on December 8, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHARLES A. BENNETT was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years in prison for securities and wire fraud charges stemming from his scheme to defraud over 30 investors of more than $5 million...
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 129,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2015/2016 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that LUIS CEDILLO, 33, last residing in Sylmar, Calif., pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Theodore J. Longust, 50, formerly from Columbia, Illinois, entered pleas of guilty today to a nine-count Indictment charging, Count 1, Financial Institution Fraud; Counts 2-5, Misapplication of Funds; Counts 6-8, Money Laundering; and Count 9, Making a False Record to Scott Credit Union With The Intent...
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, pressed the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to maintain all three lease sales proposed for Alaska’s outer-continental shelf (OCS) in its final program for 2017 through 2022. Murkowski’s comments came during Thursday’s hearing of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Jose Luis Perez-Arias, 31, of Mexico, was sentenced by Chief Federal District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on May 19, 2016, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Perez-Arias was arrested in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He received time served, plus ten days, was ordered...
By EPA Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine H.R. 3299, the Strengthening Public Health Emergency Response Act. H.R. 3299, authored by committee members Rep. Susan Brooks (R-IN) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), would update and enhance the nation’s abilities to respond to biothreats.
