News from December 2017
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - 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 Disney and 21st Century Fox (Fox). Reports indicate that Disney has agreed to pay $52.4 billion for most of Fox’s assets, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today said a response from Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to his questions about the agency’s recent recommendation to consider canceling a 20-year moratorium on new uranium mining claims near the Grand Canyon has only strengthened his...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY-- The Bureau of Land Management Salt Lake Field Office and the Ogden Ranger District of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest (USFS) released the BLM’s Proposed Decision and USFS’s Draft Decision Notice for the Three Creeks Allotment Consolidation Project. In conjunction, with the decisions, the agencies released an environmental assessment (EA) and Findings of No Significant Impact (FONSI).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national and a Lowell man each pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to their roles in a widespread Lawrence-based heroin and fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: A man who fired shots at a campus church was sentenced today to the statutory maximum of 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Defendant allegedly used Kik messenger to trade images and videos of child pornography.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced its intent to modernize the agency’s organizational structure to advance its policy goals consistent with its statutory requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 37-year-old Houston man has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of receipt and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Jose Pico pleaded guilty July 26, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Clay Aaron Rasp, age 32, of McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted on December 6, 2017, by a federal grand jury on charges relating to child pornography. The case was unsealed and Rasp is scheduled to appear before United States Magistrate Judge Susan E. Schwab on Dec. 21, 2017, for his initial appearance and arraignment.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, the Congressional Task Force on Election Security, chaired by Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Robert Brady (D-Pa.) and Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) applauded the National Association of Secretaries of State’s call for Congress to provide the remaining $396 million in outstanding Help America Vote Act (HAVA) funds to assist in updating and maintaining our nation’s aging election systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Patients Were Under Nitrous Oxide at Time of Assaults.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Yesterday, Stanford Coleman, 49 of Atlanta, Georgia was convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Oxycodone. The jury returned its guilty verdict after 4 days of trial.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) and Committee Member Debbie Dingell (D-MI) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement that it is delaying publication of the proposed revision to the Lead and Copper Rule...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: A former employee of Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for providing confidential information about health care facilities that received Medicare and Medicaid funds.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: MOAB, UT - The Southeast Utah Group of the National Park Service (Arches and Canyonlands national parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges national monuments) is joining national parks across the country in waiving entrance fees four days in 2018 as a way to encourage people to get outdoors and spend time with their friends and family in the national parks this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Two Brothers Sentenced to 21 Months and 16 Months in Prison for Illegally Trafficking Threatened Alligator Snapping Turtles.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio, a federal grand jury indicted two prison employees at the Central Texas Detention Facility - GEO (GEO) for allegedly attempting to provide contraband to inmates inside the federal detention facility announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division, and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: Attu: The Forgotten Battle tells the compelling story of the grueling battle in a mountainous terrain to reclaim the freezing and fogbound Aleutian Island of Attu from the Japanese in May 1943. Historian John Haile Cloe takes the reader through each day of the battle, followed by telling of the aftermath and lessons learned from the battle and its effect.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: FARGO - First Assistant U.S. Attorney Keith Reisenauer announced that on Dec. 15, 2017, following a four-day trial, a federal jury convicted Kevin Lee Olson, age 56, Fargo, ND of Threatening Interstate Communications by knowingly transmitting an e-mail, for the purpose of issuing a threat to injure another person, and with knowledge that the communication would be viewed by another person as a threat.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - A Long Island City man was arrested on wire fraud charges Thursday following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York’s El Dorado Task Force, which is focused on complex financial investigations such as wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering, among others.
