News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI - Martell A. Lowry, 27, of Cincinnati, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 144 months in prison for production of child pornography and coercion and enticement. The sentence also calls for him to be under court supervision for the rest of his life.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today announced that Friday’s hearing has been postponed.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against South Boston Police Officers Tiffany Bratton, Travis Clay and Clinton Mann for the death of Linwood Raymond Lambert Jr. on May 4, 2013.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Committee Member Rep. Leonard Lance (R-NJ) applauded the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee for holding a hearing today on cosmetic product safety. The two lawmakers announced a bipartisan proposal in the House last week to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) authority to regulate cosmetic products.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, received a response to his letter sent to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson last month following reports that foreign actors may have been involved...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to defraud the IRS of $119,880 in income taxes over three years, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has convicted the owner of a medical clinic for his role in a health care fraud scheme and for filing false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Eight defendants have been named in a multi-count federal indictment charging conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Daniel Comeaux of the DEA Jackson District Office. The indictment is the result of a two-year investigation by the federal Organized Crime and Drug Enforcement Task Force (OCDETF).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Peggy Sue Stanley-Mickens Admitted to Using Town Funds for Personal Home Improvements.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, issued the following joint statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report concerning the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, which is responsible for enforcing employment nondiscrimination policies for federal contractors...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the statement below on the Republican continuing resolution (CR) which does not contain funding to address lead contamination in drinking water in Flint, Michigan.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Hearing on “Modernizing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act":
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing examining the impact the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) has had on consumers and the legitimate businesses that are trying to contact them.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza has sentenced Dane Gillis (59, Leesburg) to 30 years and 5 months in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, soliciting an undercover federal agent to commit kidnapping, and transmitting interstate commerce threats to kidnap and injure a former co-worker. The Court also ordered Gillis to forfeit the electronic devices that he had used to commit the offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Maurice Dimitrie Moore, 28, of Indianapolis, Indiana was found guilty of Counts 2 and 3, making false statements to ATF, after a three-day jury trial. He was found not guilty of Count 1, providing a firearm to a felon.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Johnson: We write to express serious concern about an apparent push by your department to rush the adjudication of naturalization applications before the upcoming presidential election, presumably in an attempt to create as many new citizen voters as possible. Specifically, we are seeking...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a joint Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing titled “Midterm Review and Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles:"
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury today found Delexsia Harris (24, Bradenton) guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice. She faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Dec. 20, 2016. Harris was indicted on May 25, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) partnered with other safe drinking water advocates in the House today to introduce the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 2016. The bill would...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George Jarrod Hazel sentenced Paul Raymond Gray, a/k/a “PJ," age 35, of Lusby, Maryland, today to 66 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute powder and crack cocaine, two ...
