News from December 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Brussels-U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Michael Huerta, Ambassador Kaja Tael, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the European Union, and European Commission Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) Director General Henrik Hololei signed Amendments to two US-EU agreements that will expand areas for joint efforts on aviation safety and air traffic management harmonization.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found DON MEEKER, 30, of West Haven, guilty of carjacking. The trial before U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant began on December 8 and the jury returned its verdict late yesterday afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - William Robert Garberding, 62, of Brevard, N.C. was sentenced late yesterday to 120 months in prison for enticing a minor using the Internet, announced R. Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term imposed, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered Garberding to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - On Dec. 12, 2017, Morris Singer, 54, of Kayenta, Ariz., and a member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge Stephen M. McNamee to 37 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release. Singer had previously pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JARVIS WHEELER, age 29, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to alter U.S. Postal money orders.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Savannah, GA - Preston Q. Howard, 49, of Wright City, Missouri, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury in Savannah for transmitting threats in interstate commerce to members of the Islamic Society of Augusta, Georgia. Today, Howard was arrested on those charges, the indictment against him was unsealed, and he will make an initial appearance before a federal magistrate judge in Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Defendants Responsible for Creating “Mirai" and Clickfraud Botnets, Infecting Hundreds of Thousands of IoT Devices with Malicious Software.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Thank you for joining us today. Today’s hearing is the first - and likely the only - hearing on HR 1, the Ryan-McConnell tax legislation. And so I thank our witnesses for being here today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Birmingham man of sexually exploiting a five-year-old boy by forcing the child to perform sexual acts on him in 2016 and videotaping the conduct, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced CHRISTOPHER DARNELL EVANS, 28, of Raleigh, North Carolina to 120 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Farris Dwayne Griffin, age 42, of Stuart, Oklahoma pled guilty to Felon in Possession of Firearm and Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Clint Wade Green, 43, of Paducah, Kentucky, was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, on four counts of receipt of child pornography in one indictment and one count of mail fraud in a separate information involving theft of Pulaski County Development Association (PCDA) funds, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $100 million in funding for new projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA‑E) latest OPEN funding opportunity. OPEN will support America’s top innovators through dozens of early-stage research and development projects as they build technologies to transform the nation’s energy system.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Jon Anthony Terry, 28, of Rockwall, Texas, was charged in a federal indictment, returned today by a grand jury in Fort Worth, Texas, with four counts of production of child pornography and one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Rosenstein.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that 20 individuals have been indicted for working under false identities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the first time at an oversight hearing. Watch the hearing on House Judiciary Democrats’ Facebook page here.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - Two Topeka men were indicted Wednesday on charges of robbing a health club where one of them used to work, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: The American people are witnessing a masterclass in how one political party, relying on secrecy, distortion and brute force, can muscle an unpopular, deficit-exploding corporate giveaway to passage. This is the ultimate betrayal of the middle class. It does not give middle class Americans the tax cuts they deserve now, and it takes away Medicare and Social Security later.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on “The Impacts and Future of North American Energy Trade:"