News from February 2017
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke about the importance of making real investments in environmental infrastructure at an Environment Subcommittee hearing today titled, “Modernizing Environmental Laws: Challenges and Opportunities for Expanding Infrastructure and Promoting Development and Manufacturing":
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), along with 42 cosponsors, today introduced H.R. 1121, the Pre-Existing Conditions Protection Act of 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Begay, 23, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Kirtland, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to an assault charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Begay will be sentenced to nine years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GALANIS and his son DEREK GALANIS were each sentenced today to six years in prison for manipulating the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) spoke on the House Floor today against H.J. Res. 43, which would allow states to prevent health care providers from receiving any Title X funds if the provider separately performs abortions or is affiliated with health centers...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JACKIE LEON PARKER, JR, age 42, of Beggs, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment, and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Five defendants were sentenced today on drug and firearm-related crimes, as well as conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. The sentences were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: $2,500 Reward Offered by FBI. Public Assistance Requested in “The Short Fuse Bandit" Case. The FBI Violent Crimes Task Force and San Diego Police Department are seeking the public’s assistance to identify the individual responsible for three armed robberies in the San Diego area. On Jan. 11, 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SYDNEY JACKSON, also known as “Fatz," 34, of New London, Conn. and Queens, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to consider the nomination of Seema Verma to head the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Contact Person: Lance Crick (864) 282-2105.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: U.S. Navy Commander Charged as Part of Expanding Navy Bribery Scandal.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to President Donald Trump’s press conference...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: Washington Businessman Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Federal Tax Return.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Koesoema Wardhani-Foley, 40, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was convicted by a jury today of defrauding the United States, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - Raymond A. Barnes, 46, and Christopher A. Brown, 35, the former jail superintendent and assistant jail superintendent, respectively, of the Muskogee County Jail (MCJ), were resentenced in federal court on Feb 15, 2017, on multiple counts of civil rights offenses related to allegations...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Idaho Senator Mike Crapo and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow have introduced the Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy, or BRACE Act, which would make permanent a critical tax credit used to repair and upgrade short line railroads.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The administrator of two criminal online hacking forums was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for stealing log-in and payment card data as part of an international hacking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining challenges and opportunities for expanding infrastructure, economic redevelopment, and manufacturing through the modernization of certain environmental laws that fall under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including the Clean Air Act and the Brownfields provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing examining challenges and opportunities for expanding infrastructure, economic redevelopment, and manufacturing through the modernization of certain environmental laws that fall under the subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including the Clean Air Act and the Brownfields provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
