News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: A superseding indictment was returned today against four people charged with engaging in the sex trafficking of minors in Philadelphia announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Charged in the superseding indictment are: Collin Cowell (26), a/k/a “Tyson," Rocio Ramos (38), a/k/a “Delci," Idalis Mendez (20), a/k/a “Dali," and Robert Broaddus (23), of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on reports of the President’s recent calls with world leaders...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: FBI Investigating a Bank Robbery in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Raheem Pleasant of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by Indictment with three counts of bank robbery in connection with a string of robberies that occurred in the Philadelphia area in December and January, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The Indictment alleges that on three...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Come and enjoy the celebration as the U.S. Mint and the National Park Service release the 36th America the Beautiful Quarter® honoring Effigy Mounds National Monument. Two free events will commemorate the quarter launch. The Coin Collector Forum will be held for the public to hear about the United States Mint and their coin programs on February 6, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Effigy Mounds National Monument Visitor Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Joseph Anthony Harris (51, Lake City) today pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison for the drug offense, to be followed by a minimum mandatory sentence of 5 years, up to life, in federal prison for the firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal robbery and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JACOB AUSTIN DUNCAN, age 26, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for POSSESSION OF UNREGISTERED FIREARM (DESTRUCTIVE DEVICE), in violation of Title 26, United States Code, Sections 5861(d), 5841 and 5871.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found three brothers from Cape Coral, Gorge Antonio Vargas (34), Javier Martin Villar (47), and Daniel Vargas (32), and an associate, Zacharias Abab Aguedo (36, Fort Myers), guilty of conspiracy to possess with...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) today released the following statements after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voted in support of H.J. Res. 38, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution to overturn the Obama administration’s so-called “Stream Protection Rule" (SPR). The resolution passed the Senate by a vote of 54-45 and now goes to President Trump for his signature.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Following the sudden abandonment of a House Republican bill to give away millions of acres of federally protected land in response to massive public protests, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva called on public lands supporters to continue their activism and urged Republican leaders to rethink their unpopular environmental policies.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that two owners of a Metairie business were sentenced today for willfully filing fraudulent 2011 individual income tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Nine U.S. Senators wrote the White House today, urging the reversal of a damaging freeze on federal hiring, which is hampering U.S. trade enforcement efforts. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Sen. Robert Casey, D-Penn., Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md., Sen., Bob Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., sent the letter today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining four legislative proposals that would deliver relief to patients from Obamacare’s collapsing health markets.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) delivered the following opening remarks at a subcommittee hearing on “Reauthorization of the NTIA:"
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held its first hearing of the 115th Congress with a holistic examination of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: SEATTLE - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) National Response Team (NRT) completed its investigation into the Jan 25 Lynnwood, Wash., three-alarm structure fire in the 19800 block of Scriber Lake Road.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining four legislative proposals that would deliver relief to patients from Obamacare’s collapsing health markets.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.’s (D-NJ) opening remarks as prepared slamming Republican efforts to move forward legislation to undermine consumer protections in the Affordable Care Act today at a Health Subcommittee hearing are enclosed below...
