News from September 2016
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On MSNBC’s Morning Joe today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Congress and the American people need greater transparency from the Obama administration after new details emerged yesterday regarding $1.7 billion in U.S. cash payments to Iran provided in conjunction with the release of American hostages in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David D. Klepadlo, age 61, Clarks Summit, and David D. Klepadlo & Associates, Inc., have been charged in an Indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Scranton on September 6.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: REDDING, Calif. - As work continues on developing a new land use plan for public lands in northwest California, the Bureau of Land Management is seeking information about the BLM-managed lands in the eight-county planning area.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Two Dallas men, Cedric Ray Jones, 27, and his brother, Damien Antoine Jones, 31, were sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to lengthy federal prison sentences for committing several violent armed robberies in Dallas in 2014, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled, “Federal Power Act: Historical Perspectives:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Sues South Dakota Business for Violating Employment Rights of Air National Guard Member.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed the release of the Long-Term Strategic Review of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve , which was prepared by the Department of Energy for Congress.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: At 4:17 p.m., Tuesday, September 6, two hikers called 911 after being lost on a day hike on the east side on the park. Kane County forwarded the call and GPS location to Zion's dispatch and two Search and Rescue (SAR) team members responded. The party hiked out at 9:30 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: FARGO, ND - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on September 7, 2016, Lance Alan Robertson, 28, Fort Totten, ND, was sentenced before US District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to 14 years’ imprisonment for intentionally inflicting death on eighteen-year-old Larse Weylin Azure, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Criminal Information was filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg charging John Kauffman, Jr., age 36, with mail fraud in connection with the theft of approximately $22,000 from a union local at the Letterkenny Army Depot in Chambersburg, PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Healthcare Supply LLC and two executives have agreed to pay the United States more than $12.2 million to resolve allegations that they violated the federal False Claims Act by using a fictitious entity to make unsolicited telephone calls to Medicare beneficiaries in order to sell them durable medical equipment.
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing to examine the National Security Council’s increasing role in foreign policy and its lack of oversight. The hearing is entitled “Reforming the National Security Council: Efficiency and Accountability.".
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), have announced a joint hearing for Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, at 10 a.m. in room HVC-210 of the Capitol Visitor Center. The hearing...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - At approximately 2:18 p.m. on Monday, September 5, 2016, four juveniles assaulted two bicyclists on the Anacostia River Trail near the CSX railroad crossing. The assaults took place during the attempted commission of a robbery. Both victims were transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A White Plains, New York, woman was sentenced today to 162 months in prison for robbing a Glen Rock Savings Bank and fraudulently using an elderly victim’s checks to steal $198,750, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, Sept. 14, at 10:30 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Disrupter Series: Advanced Robotics."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) and Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law Ranking Member Henry C. “Hank" Johnson, Jr. (D-GA) today released the following statements after H.R. 5063, the Stop Settlement Slush Funds Act of 2016 passed the U.S. House of Representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for a sex crime involving minors, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Robert N. Bray, III, 39, of Logan, Ohio, previously pleaded guilty to enticing minors to engage in sexual activity. After Bray is released from prison, he will be on supervised release for 20 years, and will also be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: MASSENA, NEW YORK - On Thursday, September 8, the United States Attorney’s Office is joining the City of Massena in hosting a community-wide, anti-drug event starting at 5:30 p.m. at Massena High School (flyer attached). The purpose of the event is to discuss recent efforts to reduce the flow of drugs into the Massena area and to increase awareness of the heroin epidemic, with the intention of generating greater community involvement in the response to opioid addiction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARRYL B. STEWART, age 49, of Houma, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to one-count of theft of government funds.
