News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Obtained Personal Information by Falsely Representing to Unemployed People that Could Get them Government Assistance.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup four bipartisan public health bills on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Three of the four bills being considered were the subject of a hearing last month.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that TERRANCE WILLIAMS, a/k/a “TA," was sentenced this afternoon in Manhattan federal court to a prison term of 399 months for his crimes as a member of the “Young Gunnaz" or “YGz" gang, including the murder of Curtis Smith on June 3, 2011, in the Bronx. WILLIAMS was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni, before whom he previously pled guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H.- Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Sheldon Grant, 35, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced today to serve 72 months in prison for possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug crime.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration today proposed a delay in the electronic reporting compliance date of the rule, Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, from July 1, 2017, to Dec. 1, 2017. The proposed delay will allow OSHA an opportunity to further review and consider the rule.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup four bipartisan public health bills on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Three of the four bills being considered were the subject of a hearing last month.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup four bipartisan public health bills on Thursday, June 29, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. Three of the four bills being considered were the subject of a hearing last month.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A Houston-area man entered a guilty plea Thursday to one count each of receiving and possessing child pornography.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC - The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee today approved the bipartisan 21st Century AIRR Act (H.R. 2997), legislation that provides sweeping, transformational reform of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and an outspoken opponent of Obama-era burdensome regulations harming and farmers and ranchers, today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: This morning, in federal court in East St. Louis, IL, Samirahdam E. Rolley, 25, of Stone Mountain, GA, and Michael A. Gordon, 28, also of Stone Mountain, GA, were both sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for using stolen account numbers at several Southern Illinois Walmarts, United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Kan., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today following a 46-block-long police chase for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Brian Christoffels, 35, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for bank robbery.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today that James M. Owendoff, who has served as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary in the Office of Environmental Management (EM) since January 2010, has been named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of Environmental Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Travis Ball has been sentenced to two years in prison for mailing hoax anthrax threats. Ball sent letters to the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (“LDS") threatening harm to members of each organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) today sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to renew their call for the number of U.S. persons included in Section 702 collections. The members also called for statistics on the methodologies used in developing the project as well as information on the resources that would need to be diverted in order to complete the project.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), released the following statement on the administration's announcement of the proposed withdrawal of the fundamentally flawed Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24 year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction in the armed robbery of a Capital One Bank and for using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. A Houston federal jury convicted Trent Davis on Jan. 25, 2017, following two days of trial and approximately an hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: 4 Firearms Recovered. HAMMOND - Acting United States Attorney Clifford D. Johnson announced federal drug conspiracy charges against 20 individuals all residing in Gary, Indiana. Named in the indictment are: *. **. Antonio Walton, a/k/a “Buck", age 40 was charged with: ***. 1 count of conspiracy to...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2017
News Release: A man died today in Denali National Park and Preserve after collapsing at the Teklanika Rest Stop. The visitor’s name and hometown have not been released pending notification of family.
