News from September 2016
By DOE 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: DENVER - Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer released the following statement regarding the alleged ransom kidnapping incident that concluded this past weekend.
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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Paul Williams, aka “Cash," age 32, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today to serve 5 years in prison for a drug distribution conspiracy involving at least 500 grams of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that David Young, 29, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 20 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two clinical psychologists pleaded guilty today for their involvement in a fraudulent psychological testing scheme that preyed upon Medicare recipients living in nursing homes throughout the Southeastern United States.
By State Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the United States House of Representatives in support of the Education for All Act of 2016 (H.R.4481 )...
By DOE 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 DOE 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: 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that Jesse Scott Wilson, 41, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason to a total of 92 months in prison, followed by three years’ supervised release. Wilson had pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government with respect to tax refund claims on Feb. 26, 2016. In addition to his prison sentence, Wilson was ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $384,892.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: The purpose of today’s hearing is to examine the Treasury Department’s Judgment Fund.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area encourages all fourth graders to visit the park 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 7, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford returned an indictment today charging TRAYQUAN FORD, 20, of Meriden, with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), today held a hearing examining the historical perspectives of the Federal Power Act. The hearing builds on a June committee letter to Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Norman Bay requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Donald St. Louis to 15 months in federal prison for theft of government funds. As part of his sentence, the Court entered a money judgment in the amount of $146,929.40, the proceeds he unlawfully obtained. St. Louis pleaded guilty on April 21, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: NEW REPORT: Ways and Means Highlights New Way to Measure Success of Anti-Poverty Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: Two Psychologists Plead Guilty in $25 Million Nursing Home-Testing Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Mark Anthony Lowe, 63, of Fort Worth, Texas, was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for coercion and enticement of a child and penalties for a registered a sex offender. Lowe was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release.
