News from November 2016
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today advanced eight committee bills. To date, over 130 bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills and provisions have cleared the House - and that number continues to grow with Congress back in session.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Combine great scenery and history with great savings and visit a national park for free on one of 10 fee free days in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the planned departure of U.S. Attorney David Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today advanced eight committee bills. To date, over 130 bipartisan Energy and Commerce bills and provisions have cleared the House - and that number continues to grow with Congress back in session.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of Tuesday’s Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee hearing on “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars," several automakers will be demonstrating automated vehicle technologies from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The hearing will commence at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that nine southwest Missouri residents have been indicted by a federal grand jury in relation to a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Jasper County, Mo.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park is pleased to announce that the park’s Junior Ranger book for the Oak Ridge unit has been translated into Japanese. The book was graciously translated by park volunteer, Shigeko Uppuluri, and is now available for download on the park’s website.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16. 10: 0 a.m. Full Committee Markup. H.R. 5422, “To ensure funding for the National Human Trafficking Hotline, and for other purposes". H.R. 1669, the “Judgment Fund Transparency Act of 2015". 2237 Rayburn House Office Building
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A local minister and head of several area non-profit organizations has been ordered to federal prison for fraud in connection with a natural disaster, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jesse Dunn, 58, of Houston, pleaded guilty March 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Matthew Hinton, 26, of Orwell, has been charged with an armed robbery of the Maplefields convenience store in Fair Haven, which occurred in the early morning hours of Sept. 30, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - David J. Hickton, United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, has announced his resignation effective midnight on November 28. U.S. Attorney Hickton has served as the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania since Aug. 12, 2010.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of Tuesday’s Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee hearing on “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars," several automakers will be demonstrating automated vehicle technologies from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. The hearing will commence at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The first three of nine defendants expected to be sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL were sentenced today in three separate hearings in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. ABDULLAHI YUSUF, 20, was sentenced to time already served. ABDIRIZAK WARSAME, 21, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. ZACHARIA ABDURAHMAN, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Combine great scenery and history with great savings and visit a national park for free on one of 10 fee free days in 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: The first three of nine defendants expected to be sentenced this week for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL were sentenced today in three separate hearings in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. ABDULLAHI YUSUF, 20, was sentenced to time already served. ABDIRIZAK WARSAME, 21, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. ZACHARIA ABDURAHMAN, 21, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Brandon Williams (31, Bradenton) guilty of possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Two men who were convicted after an eight-day trial in June 2016 on the felony offense of interference with a flight crew and aiding and abetting were sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Former Autonomy CFO Charged with Wire Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who participated in a heroin conspiracy in 2014 was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Rasheed T. Latham, 28, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in Bridgeport has returned a 29-count indictment charging JARED DYLAN SPARKS, 33, of Ardmore, Okla., and JAY WILLIAMS, 45, of Griswold, Conn., with offenses related to a scheme to steal trade secrets from a Connecticut-based defense contractor. The indictment was returned on November 3. SPARKS was arrested on November 7 and WILLIAMS was arrested on November 8.
