News from December 2017
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Representatives Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18), Co-Chair of the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus, Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Norma Torres (CA-35) introduced legislation to upgrade our nation’s 9-1-1 call centers to meet the demands of rapidly changing communications...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 33-year-old Houston man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement in response to President Trump encouraging fifth generation (5G) wireless services in the administration’s national security strategy announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Project Safe Neighborhood Prosecution. United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Eric Beard to 41 months in prison on Dec. 18, 2017. The defendant pled guilty to the charge of...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Washington - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders today called the General Services Agency’s (GSA’s) public release of its Real Property Profile a victory for government transparency and accountability. The database is the most exhaustive listing ever published of federal real property assets, allowing the American people and the Congress to view information on more than 300,000 government-owned and leased properties for the first time.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, sent a letter to Arthur Elkins, Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), requesting he expand his current audit of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Investigation Led to Discovery of Thousands of Images and Videos.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on President Trump’s national security strategy announcement including efforts to advance technological growth and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Wayne County man who assisted others in distributing oxycodone in the Fort Gay area in 2015 and 2016 was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Dennis Ransbottom, Jr., 32, previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Robert Phelps, 49, of Jackson Center, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for possessing child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Representatives Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18), Co-Chair of the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus, Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Norma Torres (CA-35) introduced legislation to upgrade our nation’s 9-1-1 call centers to meet the demands of rapidly changing communications...
By State Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Representatives Anna G. Eshoo (CA-18), Co-Chair of the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus, Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee and Norma Torres (CA-35) introduced legislation to upgrade our nation’s 9-1-1 call centers to meet the demands of rapidly changing communications...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statement in response to President Trump encouraging fifth generation (5G) wireless services in the administration’s national security strategy announcement.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement on President Trump’s national security strategy announcement including efforts to advance technological growth and innovation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: JACKSON, Miss. - Charlie Lee Martin, 54, of Jackson, Mississippi, and Shredewrick Anderson, 42, of Lancaster, California, were sentenced on Dec. 12, 2017, by a U.S. District Judge for their roles in a drug conspiracy, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The last indicted member of the Cowboys gang, a violent street gang that originated in “Eastside" area of Walterboro, South Carolina, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREVON TERRY, also known as “B.J.," 39, of Newington, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 57 months of imprisonment, followed by three years supervised release, for his role in a cocaine and crack cocaine distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham. United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DARRYLL HARMON, 44, of Stratford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of bankruptcy fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, the 25-year-old refugee who was born in Iraq and resided in Houston, has been ordered to federal prison for 16 years following his conviction of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He pleaded guilty Oct. 17, 2016.
