News from September 2016
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Eight high school students from McCreary Central High School recently finished the summer working on a Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) team at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in Stearns, KY. This year’s Kentucky crew members included Hailey Anderson, Molly Grundy, Donovan Lay, Brittany...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that James Daniel Hobgood, age 36, of Manakin Sabot, Virginia, was sentenced yesterday to 12 months and one (1) day in prison followed by three (3) years supervised release on one count of Stalking.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a markup to consider five bipartisan bills to advance the public health. All five bills passed by voice vote and will now advance to the full committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Junipher Sayers, formerly Junipher Layne, (34, Cape Coral) to three years in federal prison for wire fraud. The Court also ordered her to repay $1,132,160.91 in restitution to the victim, Tigrent, Inc., and an additional $1,132,160.91 to the United States in forfeiture, representing the proceeds she obtained as a result of the offenses.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a new report chronicling the failures of state exchanges established under Obamacare. The report entitled, “Implementing Obamacare: A Review of CMS’ Management of the State-Based Exchanges," was released ahead of Wednesday’s hearing examining the committee’s oversight and the future outlook of the health care law.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Maryland MS-13 Member Pleads Guilty to Violent Racketeering Conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a new report chronicling the failures of state exchanges established under Obamacare. The report entitled, “Implementing Obamacare: A Review of CMS’ Management of the State-Based Exchanges," was released ahead of Wednesday’s hearing examining the committee’s oversight and the future outlook of the health care law.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today unanimously advanced H.R. 2669, the Anti Spoofing Act of 2015, and H.R. 2566, the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2015, to the full committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - Regions Bank (Regions) has agreed to pay $52.4 million to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that did not meet applicable requirements, the Department of Justice announced today. Regions is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today released a new report chronicling the overwhelming failures of Obamacare’s CO-OP program. The report entitled, “Implementing Obamacare: A Review of CMS’ Management of the Failed CO-OP Program," was released ahead of Wednesday’s hearing examining the committee’s oversight and the future outlook of the health care law.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today unanimously advanced H.R. 2669, the Anti Spoofing Act of 2015, and H.R. 2566, the Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act of 2015, to the full committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez sentenced Thomas Venable, 46, of Vacaville, today to one year and one day in prison for theft concerning programs receiving federal funds in connection with his operation of a sustained leave and false expenses scheme while he was a member of the California Air National Guard, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that two Winnfield men were sentenced Monday for possessing stolen firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on “The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Current State of the Farm Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, the daughter of a deceased Social Security beneficiary was sentenced to probation for stealing more than $48,000 of benefits mistakenly paid to her mother following her death. Michelle Lee Cox, 43, pled guilty to theft of government funds in May, and was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon on Monday to five years’ probation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, Jr., sentenced Dawn Wright Olivares, 48, and Daniel C. Olivares, 34, both of Clarksville, Ark., to 90 and 24 months in prison, respectively, for their involvement in an $850 million Internet Ponzi scheme that promised victims a bogus return on investments, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Delhi man pleaded guilty Monday to producing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) today announced $37 million in funding for 16 innovative new projects as part of a new ARPA-E program: Integration and Optimization of Novel Ion-Conducting Solids (IONICS). IONICS project teams are paving the way for technologies that overcome the limitations of current battery and fuel cell products.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was invited to be the honorary guest speaker at the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony and 1st National Patriot Day & National Service and Remembrance Day, which was held at the Guam Community College on Sept. 11, 2016, and hosted by the Guam Community College Veterans Club (GCCVC) and AmeriCorps.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Darren Randal Wilson pled guilty to nine counts of wire fraud involving his misappropriation of over $80,000 from the Ethical Society of Police, an association of black St. Louis police officers.
