News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Patricia Lynn Smith, 55, of Panama City Beach, pled guilty today to six felony counts, including one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and/or mail fraud affecting a financial institution and five counts of bank fraud. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Ocean County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for robbing eight banks in New Jersey and New York, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury yesterday voted to convict Tameen “Nitty" Johnson, age 39, of Schenectady, New York, of illegally possessing a loaded handgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have obtained a new identity and arrested by FBI agents in Oregon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Manufacturing USA is working. That’s the overarching conclusion of an independent study conducted by Deloitte with funding from the U.S. Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Agency Village, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact with a Person Incapable of Consent was sentenced on January 5, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, today released the roster of new Republican members who will serve on the committee in the 115th Congress. Chairwoman Foxx also announced the members who will serve as chairs of the four standing subcommittees.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the Mid-Term Evaluation of its greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks. EPA chose to leave the standards unchanged.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today on the Justice Department reaching a settlement with Takata Corp., which will include a total fine of $1 billion and criminal charges against the company. The settlement includes a $25 million criminal fine, $125 million in victim compensation, and $850 million to compensate automakers who have suffered losses from massive recalls.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Just one week ahead of President-elect Trump's inauguration, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, stood with his Democratic colleagues as well as conservationists, medical professionals, faith leaders, scientists and concerned mothers to highlight the importance of having an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guided by sound science in order to protect the health of the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Pollock prisoner pleaded guilty Wednesday to assaulting another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tony Raymond Ouzts, age 47, and Daniel Neil Alexander, age 49, of Hull, Georgia, and Anderson, South Carolina, respectively, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina. Ouzts pled guilty to possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Medstar Ambulance, Inc., four of its subsidiaries, and its two owners, Nicholas and Gregory Melehov, have agreed to pay $12.7 million to resolve allegations concerning inflated Medicare claims for ambulance transports.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Chad Vivian, acting area director of OSHA's Englewood Area Office; Joan Smith, executive director of the Rocky Mountain Education Center and Herb Gibson, area director of OSHA's Denver Area Office sign an alliance to promote safety training and education
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: The Senate Finance Committee today announced a hearing on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, to consider the nomination of Steven Mnuchin to head the U.S. Treasury Department. Following the announcement, Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decided to maintain the current greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model years 2022-2025 cars and light trucks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Charlottesville, VIRGINIA - An Earlysville man, who along with others committed a series of armed and violent robberies across Albemarle and Greene counties, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Charlottesville to federal firearms charges, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement after the House passed the Fiscal Year 2017 Republican Budget Resolution (S.Con.Res. 3), which provides the first step toward Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By DOE Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today issued the following statement after Takata agreed to plead guilty to wire fraud and reached a settlement with the Department of Justice following its defective airbag scandal.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - At the invitation of the China Ministry of Public (MPS), the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg visited China this week to discuss issues of mutual concern and to build on DEA’s existing relationship with Chinese counter-narcotics law enforcement authorities. Rosenberg...
