News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two men from the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia were sentenced in federal court for unlawfully possessing firearms and possessing pseudoephedrine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty, II announced that Tobin White, 42, of Greenfield Township, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 15 months in prison and one year of supervised release for being a prohibited person in possession of a firearm. White pleaded guilty to an indictment on Jan. 17, 2014.
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on today’s United Nations Security Council Resolution following North Korea’s fifth nuclear test, conducted in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Another Member of Plainfield-based Gang Sentenced to Over 14 Years in Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 38-year-old Texas Mexican Mafia (TMM) “Lieutenant of Lieutenants" Ruben Reyes (aka “Menace") was sentenced to five consecutive life-in-federal-prison terms for the murders of four TMM members and Balcones Heights Police Officer Julian Pesina announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Rehoboth woman was convicted today by a federal jury in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with illegally collecting more than $29,000 in Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, PA - PHILADELPHIA, PA - National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Mike Caldwell announced the selection of BJ Dunn as Minute Man National Historical Park superintendent. Dunn is currently deputy superintendent of Independence National Historical Park, Edgar Allan Poe National...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Dear Administrator Roth: We write to request information about how the General Services Administration (GSA) plans to address the imminent breach-of-lease and conflict of interest issues created by President-elect Donald Trump’s lease with the U.S. Government for the Trump International Hotel building...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Alexander Viola, 28, of Shrewsbury, MA., was arraigned on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Providence on a charge of travelling across state lines with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 123,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Also Face Trebling of Damages and Additional Mandatory Penalties for Fraudulent Conduct.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency released its proposed emissions targets for model years 2022-2025.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: There is not a single person in this chamber or watching at home today who has not been touched by disease in some way. We have all said too many early good-byes to people we hold dear. Families robbed of a parent that will never get to see their child’s milestones. A child born without the gift of a...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: From the mapping of the human genome to the rise of personalized medicines that are linked to advances in molecular medicine, we have seen constant breakthroughs that are changing the face of disease treatment, management, and cures.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROY AUSTIN, age 69, of St. Tammany Parish and a retired Colonel of the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office (“OPSO"), was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s announcement of the first ten chemicals that will be evaluated for potential risks to human health and the environment as required under the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or “MS-13," pleaded guilty on Monday, Nov. 28, 2016, in connection with attempting to murder a gang rival in Chelsea in 2015 and distributing cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved the 21st Century Cures Act by a vote of 392-26. Included in the bill were mental health reforms spearheaded by Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), which were based largely off his bill, H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that TREYTON LEE THOMAS, age 60, appeared today before a federal magistrate judge, in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was advised that he had been charged in an Indictment, returned by a grand jury in the...
