News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Jamie Smith, 28, of Raleigh North Carolina was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to one count of possession of materials to manufacture methamphetamine, and one count of conspiracy to manufacture methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Adrian Banks, 28, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 64 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm. Banks will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Rafael Nicolas Lopez-Carrasco, a/k/a Jose Casellas, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 204 months in federal prison after pleading guilty in the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with one count of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after a meeting at the White House with President Donald J. Trump and the leaders of the Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), praised the committee's vote to report to the full Senate the nomination Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, whom President Trump has nominated for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to four years’ probation with nine months of house arrest on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Crowley man pleaded guilty Tuesday to using his cell phone to record sex acts with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Anthony Maresca (54, Holiday) to 40 years in federal prison for multiple armed bank robberies in the Tampa Bay Area. He pleaded guilty in October 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) issued the following statements after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) yesterday released its annual 60-day advance notice and draft Call Letter proposing new rates and policies for Medicare Advantage and Part D programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - A Boone County felon who sold a rifle to an informant was sentenced today to a year and a half in federal prison for illegally possessing the firearm, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Gregory Scott Runion, 34, of Seth, previously pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe" today, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, anticipated the U.S. will engage in a “coordinated, multi-faceted effort to push back" against Iran’s most recent ballistic missile test and its other ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: (MINEOLA, N. Y. - - Dr. Albert R. Cowie, 38, of Amherst, NY, who was convicted of obtaining controlled substances by fraud and health care fraud, was sentenced to 24 months in prison today by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. jointly announced the sentencing.
By Commerce 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two area men have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury sitting in Houston convicted Aaron Matthew Pierce, 37, of Houston, following a five-day trial Nov. 14, 2016, while Darrell Demond Arline, 37, of Pearland, pleaded guilty on the first day of trial to all counts as charged - conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 14 counts of wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pennsylvania has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months’ imprisonment on his conviction of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By EPA 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: 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 EPA 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 US DOT Newswire | Feb 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting to consider the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be administrator of the Environmental ...
