News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Mark W. Pletcher (619) 546-9714 and Patrick Hovakimian (619) 546-9718.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, woman charged with Possession of a Controlled Substance pled guilty and was sentenced on Nov. 27, 2017, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - December 5, 2017 - Antonio L. Bender,19, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to federal firearms charges and obstruction of justice, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. These charges resulted from an incident on March 27, 2017, where Bender shot at two Metropolitan Nashville Police Department officers who were responding to a report of shots being fired.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - The Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste contractor recently earned an “excellent" rating and $14,465,000 - or 96 percent - of the available award fee for the period Oct. 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017, according to a recently released scorecard.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: An interagency investigation led by a Special Agent with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch has culminated in a lengthy prison sentence for a man who fatally shot a woman on the Natchez Trace Parkway in 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed Kirstjen Nielsen to become the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
Release: Cedar Rapids, Iowa-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new carry-on baggage security procedures at the Eastern Iowa Airport (CID).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, four individuals were arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury for their role in operating a “pill mill," out of a Montgomery, Alabama medical office, announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. A “pill mill" is a medical clinic that is dispensing controlled substances inappropriately, unlawfully, and for non-medical reasons.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Man will serve 40 years in prison for murder on the Natchez Trace.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider two of President Trump’s nominees for the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE). The nominees were Dr. Tim Petty to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science and Dr. Linda Capuano to be Administrator of the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Kyle, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor and Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM’s cleanup contactor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) earned $300,000 of a possible $455,971 award fee for the March to August 2017 performance period, according to a.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Concerns of Patient Brokering and Addiction Treatment Fraud."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today requesting a hearing on the proposed merger between CVS Health and Aetna. The recently proposed $69 billion merger may be the largest of its kind in a series of recent mergers in the healthcare system, which have significant potential to affect millions of consumers across the country.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) was appointed by House Speaker Paul Ryan to serve on the the House-Senate conference committee for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Chairman Bishop issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - Felipe Rodolfo Baez-Romero, 46, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to one count of illegal reentry of a deported alien. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris scheduled sentencing for Feb. 8, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Safeguarding American Agriculture in a Globalized World."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: EUGENE, Ore. - On Tuesday, December 5, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Ann L. Aiken sentenced Michael Schmidt to 24 months in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release. Schmidt had previously pleaded guilty to a single charge of failing to register as a sex offender on September 6, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The third meeting of the U.S.-Mexico Energy Business Council (the Council) took place today in Mexico City, and was co-chaired by Wells Griffith, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Israel Hernandez, Deputy Chief of Staff...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 67 months in prison and three years supervised release in connection with two armed robberies committed one week apart, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
