News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Donald Boozer, 37, of Fredericktown, with a pharmacy robbery, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after the EPA released its draft 2017 Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) targets.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said the rising cost of healthcare under the President’s health law is putting a financial squeeze on middle-class families and called on Congress to work together to find a viable path forward to lower costs for the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On May 17, 2016, a federal grand jury sitting in Chattanooga, Tenn., returned a seven-count indictment against John Allen Morris, Jr., 50, of Knoxville, Tenn., for wire fraud, mail fraud, bank fraud and wrongful use of a government seal.
By State Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), passed five measures, including S. 1252, Global Food Security Act of 2016. The bill, which ensures that current disaster relief funding will be spent more efficiently and transparently, is key to U.S. efforts to respond to desperate humanitarian situations in the Middle East and Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: A defendant was sentenced today in the Eastern District of Oklahoma to three consecutive terms of life in prison for the murder of three people in March 2004 in Indian Country, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Mark F. Green of the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Extension Agreement to Improve Georgia’s Developmental Disability and Mental Health System.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the approval of additional delivery points for up to 5,000 acre-feet (AF) of Panoche’s non-Project groundwater introduced into the Delta-Mendota Canal as part of the DMC...
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced the Effective Apprenticeships Rebuild National Skills (EARNS) Act, legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Edward Terrell Providence, 51, of the Bronx, New York, was charged by Indictment, unsealed today, with one count of bank fraud and six counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Providence was arrested this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Sidney C. Hines (67, New Port Richey) with five counts of false impersonation of a federal officer or employee of the United States. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of three years in federal prison for each count.
By Commerce Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Tonight, H.R. 5278, the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)," was introduced in the House. Bill sponsor Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI), Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and cosponsor Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) issued the following statements.
By DOL Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today approved a resolution (H. J. Res. 87) under the Congressional Review Act to protect the rights of workers and employers by blocking a new rule by the Department of Labor. Known as the “persuader" rule, the regulation ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Court Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Jacksonville residents David Lee Mitchell (60) and Hezekiah Williams (59) to 10 years in federal prison, respectively, for their role in an identity theft and counterfeit check scheme. Varying upward at the time of sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Kevin Rebbie, 57, of Royersford, PA, was sentenced yesterday to 240 months in prison for manufacturing child pornography, of which 180 months is a mandatory term. On Dec. 22, 2015, Rebbie pleaded guilty to 19 counts of manufacturing child pornography, and one count of possession of child pornography. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Nitza I. Quinones Alejandro ordered a $2,000 special assessment and 20 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A married couple from India who allegedly obtained U.S. citizenship by fraud have been arrested on bank fraud and immigration charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has convicted Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif (25, Melbourne, and a citizen of the United Arab Emirates) on possession of firearms by an unlawful or illegal alien and possession of ammunition by an unlawful or illegal alien. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison for each count. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Aug. 26, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: Criminal charges were filed in federal court against two men for sexually exploiting children, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: SHANKSVILLE, Pa. -Fourth-grade students from the Baldwin-Whitehall School District in Allegheny County will visit Flight 93National Memorial over four days in May to launch a new educational program geared to encourage awareness and visitation to the Memorial.
By DOJ Newswire | May 18, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Vincent Sawicki, 64, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of distribution of oxymorphone, was sentenced to three years probation with six months of home detention by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
