News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Erick Estrada-Lopez (41, Jacksonville) and Michael Rounsville (48, Callahan) guilty of crimes arising out of a money laundering scheme. Estrada-Lopez was convicted of conspiracy to commit...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NIST has recently made substantial improvements to its Johnson-noise thermometry system, which is playing a vital role in the worldwide effort to determine the value of a key physical constant in time for the impending redefinition of the International System of Units (SI) in 2018. The system is now capable of yielding statistical uncertainties 10 times smaller than its predecessor.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade hearing titled “Disrupter Series: Self-Driving Cars:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that RICHARD DALE HENRY, age 62, of Broken Bow, Oklahoma, was found guilty, by a federal jury, of FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2)...
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in support of the Iran Sanctions Extension Act (H.R.6297 ) on the House floor...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after the Interior Department issued new rules regulating methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Milford, Ohio, man who previously admitted to possessing heroin with the intent to distribute it, has been sentenced 168 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Senior United States District Judge Richard P. Conaboy sentenced a Hazleton man to 15 months’ imprisonment for passing counterfeit $100 bills between December 2012 and February 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the Interior Department’s reform agenda to create a cleaner and more sustainable energy future, and in furtherance of the Obama Administration’s Climate Action Plan, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the Methane and Waste Prevention Rule - a final...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Energy and Power Subcommittee Vice Chairman Pete Olson (R-TX), and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after the Interior Department issued new rules regulating methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Another member of a methamphetamine conspiracy that trafficked large quantities of the drug from Atlanta, Georgia to Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today in the United States District for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler regarding possible FCC decisions during the presidential transition.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Charleston men were sentenced today to federal prison for gun crimes, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing as part of the ongoing Disrupter Series to examine the potential of self-driving cars. The hearing provided an opportunity to better understand how this innovative...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - MedNet Inc., a Ewing, New Jersey-based remote cardiac monitoring company and a subsidiary of BioTelemetry Inc., has agreed to pay more than $1.35 million to resolve allegations that it paid kickbacks to induce physicians to use the company’s cardiac monitoring services, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Dear Chairman Rogers and Ranking Member Lowey...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Priebus: I am writing to you, as the designated Chief of Staff to President-elect Donald Trump, to request information about recent press reports indicating that Mr. Trump may seek to obtain security clearances for his children to obtain access to classified national security information.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NOV 15 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jeffrey Harrison, also known as “Biscuit," 36, and Christopher Hilton, also known...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: NOV 15 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Scot Stolkner, 44, of Gray, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 17½ years...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2016
News Release: Glen Canyon is just one of many National Parks that will provide free entrance to the park on several selected days in 2017.
