News from May 2016
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray, D-Wash., sent a letter to Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell relaying concerns about...
By EPA 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: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On May 17, 2016, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against 17 defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of controlled substances, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD), San Juan Strike Force are in charge of the investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: A Sterling Heights man was sentenced to more than 30 years in federal prison after having been convicted in January by a jury of producing child pornography and enticing a minor online, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By EPA Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Cybersecurity Responsibilities at HHS."
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ernest Xavier Taylor, Jr., 31, and Tracie Laverne Mixon, 34, both of Hammond, Louisiana, were indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges relating to stealing the identities of four people to fraudulently obtain federal student loans from Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC) and other schools.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Disaster struck Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, when the deadliest and costliest single tornado in U.S. history left a 35-kilometer (22-mile) long path of destruction. The storm killed 161 people, destroyed some 8,000 structures and left $2.8 billion in damages in its wake. In the five years since...
By Homeland Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Dudley: I write today to request information about recent cyberattacks involving the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a provider of secure messaging services for financial institutions. In February 2016, an anonymous group of cyber criminals reportedly...
By DOE 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: LOS ANGELES - An El Monte man who pleaded guilty to four separate crimes related to gang activity has been sentenced to serve 210 months in federal prison. Christian “Bossy" Lafargo, 30, was sentenced Thursday by United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt after pleading guilty to multiple charges, ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Wednesday, May 25, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Cybersecurity Responsibilities at HHS."
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily W. Allen (619) 546-9738.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Shantelle P. Kitchen, Special Agent in Charge of the New York Office of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (“IRS-CI"), announced that DAVID S. YOUNGER, a neurologist with a private medical practice in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that two men allegedly involved in drug trafficking in York and Berks Counties were indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg.
By Interior Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON, Pa. - Steamtown National Historic Site announces our train excursion schedule for the end of May and the month of June, beginning on Saturday, May 28 with an excursion to the Mid Valley borough of Jessup, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: $15,000 Reward Offered in Homicide of 9-Year-Old Child.
By USDA Newswire | May 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on the Farm Credit System.
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 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: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Joseph S. Heleniak, 71, of West Seneca, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, and a fine of $250,000.
