News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) requesting a joint subcommittee hearing on steps Congress can take to protect consumers from the growing number of unwanted and potentially predatory robocalls.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge sentenced a Wilmette financial advisor to more than six years in prison for pocketing nearly $2 million of his clients’ money after falsely promising substantial returns on investments in Facebook stock and real estate funds.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Concerned because they were experiencing sore throats, headaches and difficulty with breathing, employees of Quest Diagnostic Corp.'s Ameripath diagnostic laboratory in Shelton filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The agency's Bridgeport Area Office began an inspection on March 6, 2016.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Anna Eshoo (D-CA), and Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade Subcommittee Ranking Member Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today sent a letter to full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) requesting a joint subcommittee hearing on steps Congress can take to protect consumers from the growing number of unwanted and potentially predatory robocalls.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Patrick Lee Jewell, 34, of Jerome, Idaho was sentenced today in United States District Court to 63 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, for possession of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Jewell pleaded guilty on April 7, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Jose Jamie Villalpando, a/k/a “Jamie Villapondo," age 48, of Charleston, owner of Senor Tequila Restaurants in Charleston, was sentenced on Friday in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for False Statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Marcel Lehel Lazar, aka “Guccifer," 44, of Arad, Romania, a hacker who unlawfully accessed the private online accounts of at least 100 Americans and caused the public release of this information on the Internet, was sentenced today to a total of 52 months in prison for unauthorized...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeks Assistance to Identify Unknown Child Predator.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a report Thursday, “America’s Insatiable Demand For Drugs: The Public’s Health And Safety Implications For Our Unsecure Border.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A previous convicted sex offender, who due to her previous criminal conduct was required to register as a sex offender, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke for failing to maintain her sex offender registration, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of five Houston area drug traffickers are in custody on allegations they were involved in the large-scale distribution of methamphetamine in the Tomball and Pinehurst areas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By State Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the post-election clashes in Gabon...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement after Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) announced he will resign from Congress next week...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ -Starting in October 2016, Petrified Forest National Park will offer 'virtual', digital field trips through their new distance learning program. Teachers from anywhere in the country, or the world, can sign up for a live program with a ranger via video conference.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. -U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced today James Ronald Helms, Jr., 49, of Monroe, N.C., to 210 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release on drug conspiracy charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Helms was also ordered to forfeit $47,813 in drug proceeds.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, September 8, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability."
By Interior Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Extended hot and dry weather and ongoing wildfire activity has prompted Yellowstone National Park to implement Stage 2 Fire Restrictions effective at noon Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: SEPT. 1, 2016 -- Among the 5.4 million U.S. firms with paid employees, 481,981, or 8.9 percent, had been in business for less than two years in 2014, according to findings from the U.S. Census Bureau's inaugural Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, September 8, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Improving Rural Call Quality and Reliability."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 1, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two California residents involved in an extensive mortgage loan modification scheme were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill sentenced SERJ GEUTSSOYAN, also known as...
