News from October 2016
By DOL Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: DES MOINES, Iowa - Feeling the symptoms of heat-related illness, a 24-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier asked her supervisor to be relieved after walking about half-way through her 11-mile delivery route on a hot June day in Des Moines when temperatures exceeded 93 degrees. Investigators from...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that GEOFFREY RICKETTS, age 48; his wife, MARLA RICKETTS, age 38; SAMUEL KIM, age 41, all of Porter Ranch, California, and his cousin, SUNYUP KIM, age 40, of Granada Hills, California pled guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A criminal complaint has been filed charging Harold Thomas Martin III, age 51, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor. According to the affidavit filed in support...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Arnulfo Vasquez, 35, of Las Cruces, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a cocaine trafficking charge.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: As all Texans and many Americans know, thanks to innovative technologies, we are the No. 1 producer of oil and gas in the world. It wasn’t too long ago that the world view saw negative, powerless words like “peak oil" or an “energy crisis." However, simply having vast resources does not immediately translate into benefits at home and abroad. To achieve that, policy changes must be made.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today applauding the Obama Administration’s continued actions to tackle climate change. Today, the Obama Administration announced new actions that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), ...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today applauding the Obama Administration’s continued actions to tackle climate change. Today, the Obama Administration announced new actions that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today applauding the Obama Administration’s continued actions to tackle climate change. Today, the Obama Administration announced new actions that the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA), ...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. D-N.J., today issued a statement following a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding the misclassification of EpiPen as a generic drug for nearly two decades...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Hazleton man pleaded guilty on October 4, 2016 before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick in Scranton, to conspiring with others to distribute and possess with intent to distribute Tramadol, Ambien, Xanex, and other Schedule IV drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum that provides guidance to promote diversity and inclusion in the national security workforce. More than three million people makeup the workforce that is responsible for protecting the country and advancing our interests abroad, through diplomacy, development, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. D-N.J., today issued a statement following a letter from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt regarding the misclassification of EpiPen as a generic drug for nearly two decades...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal authorities in Chicago have charged two suspected computer hackers for allegedly operating cyber-attack-for-hire websites that launched attacks on companies and individuals around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Former NASA Employee Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements Concerning His Interactions with Contractors.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada -The Historic Railroad Trail and 17 miles of the River Mountains Loop Trail within Lake Mead National Recreation Area will be closed Monday through Thursday Oct. 11 -Nov. 17 for construction improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: OCT 05 - BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut announced that Ronald Weaver, 38, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty in Bridgeport federal court to one...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Andy Garcia, Jr., 43, of Deming, N.M., pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M. to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Andy Garcia will be sentenced to ten years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: Two felons from Warren were indicted for stealing 30 firearms, as well as related charges, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 22-year-old Maine resident pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion in Scranton, to participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2016
News Release: As all Texans and many Americans know, thanks to innovative technologies, we are the No. 1 producer of oil and gas in the world. It wasn’t too long ago that the world view saw negative, powerless words like “peak oil" or an “energy crisis." However, simply having vast resources does not immediately translate into benefits at home and abroad. To achieve that, policy changes must be made.
