News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: This morning, FBI agents arrested 24-year-old former Temple police officer Erick French for allegedly revealing an ongoing investigation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the opening meeting of Senate and House Conferees on S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) delivered the following remarks at today’s meeting of the Senate and House Conferees on S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016. Included in the House amendment to S. 2012 were several committee provisions that have...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: Petrified Forest National Park encourages all fourth graders to visit the park for free this year as part of the Every Kid in a Park program. The program gives fourth grade students, and those accompanying them, free access to more than 2,000 federally managed lands and waters. Visit www.EveryKidinaPark.gov to download the pass and obtain more information.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 8, 2016
News Release: This morning, FBI agents arrested 24-year-old former Temple police officer Erick French for allegedly revealing an ongoing investigation announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher B. Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Struck by Vehicle While Fleeing on Foot from Officer.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 7, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on the release of the USDA Economic Research Service analysis, Household Food Security in the United States in 2015, which points to the lowest figures on record for food insecurity among children.
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) released the following statement on the political crisis in Gabon...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Washington D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, publicly released an email exchange in which former Secretary of State Colin Powell advised then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the use of personal email two days after she was sworn in as Secretary.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Gage James Lester, age 20, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison followed by three (3) years of supervised release on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking of a Child. The sentencing hearing took place before the Honorable Chief Judge P. K. Holmes, III in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A licensed pharmacist, Kumi Frimpong, who owned and operated the Cornerstone Pharmacy, located on Bolton Boone Drive in Desoto, Texas, has pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge stemming from his involvement in a “pill mill" operation, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on the release of the USDA Economic Research Service analysis, Household Food Security in the United States in 2015 , which points to the lowest figures on record for food insecurity among children: "Today's ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2016 — By: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack We know when rural communities do well, America does well. Rural America provides us with the food we eat, the water we drink and the energy we use, not to mention a disproportionate percentage of the Nation's military that keeps us safe ...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that 76 small businesses around the country will receive $7.4 million in grants to conduct research related to food security, natural resources, and agricultural issues. The grants are made through the Small Business Innovation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Cumberland Staffing Inc., doing business as AtWork Cumberland Staffing (ACS), to resolve the department’s investigation into whether the company discriminated against work-authorized immigrants and naturalized U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). ACS is a temporary staffing agency with an office located in Cookeville, Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Developer Admits Improperly Removing Asbestos from Historic Building James Powers, 59, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to violating the Clean Air Act for his role in a scheme to improperly remove asbestos from a historic building in the District of Columbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: The United States has filed a False Claims Act case against Vanguard Healthcare LLC, Vanguard Healthcare Services LLC, Boulevard Terrace LLC, Vanguard of Crestview LLC, Glen Oaks LLC, Imperial Gardens Healthcare and Rehabilitation LLC, Vanguard of Memphis LLC, Vanguard of Manchester LLC and Vanguard’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: 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 Employment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Defendant Connected to Individual Involved in Dog Fighting Conspiracy A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man allegedly connected to and living with an individual involved in a dog fighting conspiracy was arrested today for possessing dogs for the purpose of dog fighting, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden, head of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman for the District of New Jersey.
