News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Gregory Scott Rinker, 31, of Romney, West Virginia, pled guilty today to a federal firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement today that the Agency initiated a public process to redefine the “healthy" claim on food labels. Pallone and DeLauro introduced legislation...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The FAA and General Aviation (GA) group’s #FlySafe national safety campaign aims to educate the GA community on best practices for calculating and predicting aircraft performance, and operating within established aircraft limitations. Impairment may cause a pilot to exceed these limitations and lose control of the aircraft.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Resiliency is key to sustaining success. This was one of several takeaways heard by National Park Service employees attending a two-day conference at Boise State University on September 14-15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Branson, Mo., man and a Springfield, Mo., man were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate and unrelated cases related to the sexual exploitation of minors.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Detroit man found guilty of kidnapping two Indianapolis children.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on Tuesday to address what the country has done to keep the homeland secure since Sept. 11, 2001. Below is Chairman Johnson’s opening statement as submitted for the record...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced AKIN SEAN EL PRECISE BEY, 47, of Knightdale, North Carolina to life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - U.S. Attorney John Parker announced today that Metroplex Economic Development Corporation, which provides mentoring and transitional services to incarcerated adults in Dallas, Texas, will receive $1,000,000 in grant funding as part of the federal government’s efforts to support safe and successful community reintegration of adults who have been incarcerated.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, “Fifteen Years After 9/11: Threats to the Homeland." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two employees from a Somerset County, New Jersey, company today admitted recruiting foreign nationals to enroll at a “pay to stay" New Jersey college where they could fraudulently maintain their clients’ student visa status and get them full-time work authorizations without the clients having to attend classes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An associate of the DeCavalcante organized crime family of La Cosa Nostra was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in distributing more than 500 grams of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man who was found guilty of Domestic Abuse by an Habitual Offender and Simple Assault following a jury trial in July of 2016 was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Sept. 27, 2016 BOS 2016-154
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, LAFAYETTE, MONROE, ALEXANDRIA, LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley reminds voters that today is National Voter Registration Day (NVRD), which is dedicated to ensuring every American is registered to vote at their current address in time for the next election. National...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement today that the Agency initiated a public process to redefine the “healthy" claim on food labels. Pallone and DeLauro introduced legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: The defendant used city funds for personal expenses.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) applauded the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement today that the Agency initiated a public process to redefine the “healthy" claim on food labels. Pallone and DeLauro introduced legislation...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously amended and approved S. 253, the Communications Act Update Act of 2016. The bill contains eight Energy and Commerce Committee bills that have previously passed the House or have unanimously passed the committee. S. 253 now heads back to the Senate for final consideration.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2016
News Release: POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. - Federal investigators have cited an Indiana landscaping company in the death of a 23-year-old ground crewman who died after being hospitalized with a core body temperature above 108 degrees. U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigators determined...
