News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Cashel was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for production and receipt of child pornography between Jan. 1, 2015 and Aug. 28, 2015.
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on the House floor in support of a resolution that condemns the persecution of Christians around the world (H.Res.407 )...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev… Wildland firefighting positions with Bureau of Land Management Nevada are open now through February. Below are the vacancy announcement numbers and deadlines to apply. Applications must be submitted by January 9, 2017 for early consideration. This year, positions are available for firefighters...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Kwasi Asante, 59, of Rutland, was sentenced December 6, 2017, in United States District Court in Burlington to 60 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to charges of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Bulk Cash Smuggling.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Tomorrow at 2 p.m. Eastern Time is the deadline for Lead Applicants to- submit Volume I and Volume II - for the UAS Integration Pilot Program (UAS IPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a member of a gang that has operated for a decade or more in the City of York was sentenced to life in prison for racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Tests Conclude Filters Safe for Vitrification Process.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following remarks for the record today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on, “Examining Concerns of Patient Brokering and Addiction Treatment Fraud:"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General of the United States, Joon H. Kim, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Dana J. Boente, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a St. Francis, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault With a Dangerous Weapon and Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on Dec. 11, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), and the Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), teamed up for a joint hearing on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program (CAFE) and greenhouse gas (GHG) standards set for motor vehicles and their impact on innovation, jobs, and consumer choices.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A federal judge has found a 43-year-old legal permanent resident who lived in Sugar Land guilty of receipt, access with intent to view and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant faces up to 40 years in federal prison and up to life on federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Jose Dominguez Berroa, aka “Ana Maria Rodriguez," “Martha Vargas," and “Michelle Dominguez," of Dallas, appeared in federal court this morning and pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge David L. Horan to one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced $18.5 million in new Department of Energy (DOE) funding for an offshore wind research and development (R&D) consortium that will conduct U.S.-specific research aimed at reducing the cost of offshore wind in the U.S. This consortium ...
By State Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today delivered a statement at a Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific hearing entitled “Cambodia’s Descent: Policies to Support Democracy and Human Rights.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a grand jury in New Haven returned an indictment today charging BRIAN PAGE, 43, of Guilford, with one count of failure to surrender for service of his federal sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing examining concerns of patient brokering and addiction treatment fraud in the wake of the opioid crisis.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - A former InSouth bank employee was sentenced by United States District Judge Sheryl H. Lipman to serve 33 months in federal prison in connection with her embezzlement of $890,000. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint hearing of the Subcommittees on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection and Environment titled, “Update on the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Program (CAFE) and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Motor Vehicles:"
