News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Kansas Tax Return Preparer Sentenced to Prison for Aggravated Identity Theft and Stealing Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DERRICK GILLIAM, 30, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in Bridgeport to 121 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in an armed robbery spree in 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a statement regarding the nominations of U.S. Rep. Tom Price to be the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Seema Verma to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dariusz J. Prugar, age 32, of Syracuse, New York, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo in Harrisburg, to 24 months in prison for computer hacking and wire fraud. In March 2016, a jury convicted Prugar of these offenses after a one-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Charles Parker Harrington, III (27, St. Petersburg) today pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, asked three top regulators in the outgoing Obama administration to cease implementing especially burdensome new regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Robert Hill, 48, of Williston, North Dakota, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to distribute heroin and oxycodone, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Hill is the eighth defendant to plead guilty. Eleven defendants in total were charged in the superseding indictment which was issued by the grand jury on April 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice Files Statement of Interest in South Carolina Statewide School-to-Prison Pipeline Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of ANTON ALEXANDER MARTYNENKO, 33, to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty in January to federal child pornography charges. MARTYNENKO was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Richard H. Kyle in U.S. District Court in Saint Paul, Minn.
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT[1]. Tórshavn, The Faroe Islands. 29 November - 1 December 2016. Introduction. Delegations from Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Kingdom of Denmark in respect of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, the European Union, Iceland, Japan, the Republic of Korea, the Kingdom of Norway,...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On Monday evening, the Senate unanimously passed H.R. 5111, the Consumer Review Fairness Act, authored by Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Vice Chairman Leonard Lance (R-NJ). The bipartisan bill would prohibit gag clauses that prevent consumers from publishing truthful reviews and would authorize the FTC, and states, to enforce the Act with civil penalties. H.R. 5111 passed the House by voice vote in September.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has rescheduled its previously postponed hearing entitled Volkswagen’s Emissions Cheating Settlement: Questions Concerning ZEV Implementation for Tuesday, December 6, 2016, at 10 am in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LILIAN JAKACKI, a/k/a/ “Lilian Wieckowski," was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff to four years in prison for illegally distributing 100,000 tablets of oxycodone, Medicare fraud, and money laundering. JAKACKI pled guilty on July 28, 2016, before Judge Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Cape Hatteras Lighthouse will be open to the public for a free climb on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. This event is part of the OBXmas Weekends celebrated with the Outer Banks Visitors Bureau.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: The 21st Century Cures Act will accomplish what it says, delivering safe new cures and treatments to patients across the nation. Earlier today we looked at five themes of the landmark, nonpartisan legislation - delivering hope, removing barriers to research collaboration, incorporating patient feedback...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: The 21st Century Cures Act will accomplish what it says, delivering safe new cures and treatments to patients across the nation. Earlier today we looked at five themes of the landmark, nonpartisan legislation - delivering hope, removing barriers to research collaboration, incorporating patient feedback...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: Defendant Attacked Girl After Coming to Her Home.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act, issued the following statement ahead of tomorrow’s House vote...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former Army explosive ordinance disposal technician pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to unlawful possession of explosive devices, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
