News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: FBI Jacksonville Now Hiring Interns. Honors Internship Program Starts Summer 2017. The FBI Jacksonville Division is now accepting applications for the summer 2017 Honors Internship Program, a 10-week, full-time, paid internship for college undergraduate and graduate students. Through this highly competitive...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Taft Redd, age 45, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to six commercial robberies committed between July 22 and Aug. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Utah man has been arrested for his role in a real estate fraud scheme in which Southern California investors collectively suffered nearly $3.5 million in losses.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing examining H.R. 2566, Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability Act, introduced by Rep. David Young (R-IA).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department filed a complaint late yesterday alleging that BioFusion Health Products Inc., a business with headquarters in Rapid City, South Dakota, violated the employment rights of former South Dakota Air National Guard Senior Airman Amber M. Ishmael under the Uniformed Services...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a markup convening on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, at 5:30 p.m., or 10 minutes after the conclusion of the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology markup, whichever is later, in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building for opening statements only. The subcommittee will reconvene on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016 at 2 p.m. in 2322 Rayburn House Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, announced the Committee will hold a hearing to consider nominees for Commissioners of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JUAN QUINONES, 43, of Port Chester, N.Y, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Department of Energy’s Role in Advancing the National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States." Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX) will preside over the hearing. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz is slated to testify.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “The Department of Energy’s Role in Advancing the National, Economic, and Energy Security of the United States." Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX) will preside over the hearing. Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz is slated to testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - -Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, announced a Miami man admitted that he was responsible for depositing over $4.7 million in fraudulently obtained tax refund checks as part of a massive stolen identity income tax scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: In a world often confronted with bad news, positive developments are welcome. Our nation’s energy situation is providing such relief to what’s often a drought of good news.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on September 7, 2016, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against James E. Podolske Jr. (age: 59) of Panama City, Florida charging him with Procurement Fraud in violation of Title 41, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A Charleston, Ill., man, James Michael Hill, 39, has been charged by indictment with embezzling from his former employer, a Mattoon restaurant. The indictment, returned Sept. 7, charges Hill, of the 2700 block of Krishire Dr., with embezzling approximately $150,000 from the Stadium Grill restaurant in Mattoon, Ill., when he was employed as a general manager.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Defendant also Possessed more than 600 Images of Children being Raped and Molested.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: MILLS, Wyo. -- Reclamation would like to notify the public that the road crossing Guernsey Dam will be closed for most of the non-irrigation season to accommodate rehabilitation of the Guernsey North Spillway Gate. The project is expected to start on Oct. 1, 2016, and be completed no later than April 15, 2017. Road closure signs and gates will be installed prior to commencement of the work.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Andrew Otto Boggs, aka “INCURSIO," 22, of North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and Justin Gray Liverman, aka “D3F4ULT," 24, of Morehead City, North Carolina, were arrested today on charges related to their alleged roles in the computer hacking of several senior U.S. government officials and U.S. government computer systems.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) today, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Tampa, FL - The medical director of a clinic in Orlando, Florida, was charged in a superseding indictment filed today for his alleged participation in a $13.8 million health care fraud scheme involving claims for expensive prescription drugs and physical therapy.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2016-Four new plaques will soon hang on the walls at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Science Hall of Fame. Those plaques will represent careers of accomplishment and discovery that have enhanced our understanding of soil-moisture sensing, the microbes used to produce fuel, and the biological control agents used to combat plant disease.
