News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 19 indictments charging 20 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions regarding the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Congressman Paul Tonko (D-NY), Congressman Dan Kildee (D-MI), and Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (D-MI) issued the following statement today in response to the Trump Administration’s directive to temporarily freeze all grant funding issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL), today issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions regarding the Keystone and Dakota Access pipelines.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jeshua Paonessa-Velez, age 25, and Luis E. Arochom age 39, both of York City, Pennsylvania, were indicted on Jan. 18, 2017, by a federal grand jury on a second superseding indictment charging them with bank fraud and identity theft.
By State Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks in the House of Representatives in support of the READ Act (H.R. 601 )...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today upon news that President Donald Trump signed an executive order that cleared the way for the government to reconsider the Keystone XL pipeline...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Democrats plan to offer several dozen amendments today to the Committee’s 115th Congress Rules Package and to the Authorization and Oversight Plan during the Committee’s official organizational meeting at 1 p.m. in Rayburn 2167.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2017
News Release: A multi-kilowatt laser beam can cut through steel and melt bricks into glass. Many industries use high-power lasers like these to precisely cut and weld metals for a range of applications, from manufacturing cars and cell phones to ships, planes, and medical devices. But industry professionals need tools to tell them exactly how much power their laser is producing at a given time.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: (Attend via Webcast). JAN. 23, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau will hold its quarterly 2020 Census Program Management Review on Jan. 27 from 1 to 4 p.m. in the auditorium at Census Bureau headquarters. Agenda topics include high-level program updates, a review of 2020 Census operations and systems readiness...
By State Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Confirmation of secretary of state is always one of this committee's most important responsibilities. At the core of the nomination process is the question of whether the nominee is qualified to undertake the duties for which he or she is nominated.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that, on Jan. 20, DEBRA BIAGI, 50, of Fogelsville, Pa., formerly of Greenwich, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $700,000 from her employer and related companies and individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. B A Kansas City, Kan., man who told investigators he preferred jail to living with his wife pleaded guilty Monday to a federal bank robbery charge, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 Last week's significant development in the long-term investigation against drug lord Joaquin "Chapo" Guzman Loera marks an important opening salvo in bringing the alleged head of the world's largest drug trafficking organization to justice for his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Merger Would Harm Seniors Relying on Medicare Advantage and Low-Income Families and Individuals Obtaining Insurance on Public Exchanges Judge John D. Bates of the District Court for the District of Columbia issued a decision today that found in favor of the Justice Department in its civil antitrust lawsuit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: The owner of a St. Louis, Missouri tax return preparation business was sentenced to 27 months in prison Friday following his conviction on two counts of tax evasion, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Washington River Protection Solutions LLC (WRPS) has agreed to pay the United States $5.275 million to settle allegations that WRPS knowingly submitted false claims to the Department of Energy (DOE) for overtime and premium pay and also failed to comply with the contract’s internal audit requirements. The contract was performed at DOE’s Hanford Site near Richland, Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: Today a federal court in Illinois permanently enjoined Daria Emma Valdivia, individually and doing business under the name Emma’s Agency, from preparing federal tax returns for others. Valdivia agreed to the civil injunction order entered against her, which requires her to turn over to the United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: A Broward County, Florida tax return preparer, Billy Philippe, unlawfully understates his customers’ income tax liabilities and overstates refunds by making deliberate misstatements on the tax returns, according to a new civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department today. The suit, filed in federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 23, 2017
News Release: A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States and to aiding and abetting the filing of false claims for tax refunds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Louis D. Lappen for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
