News from July 2017
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee markup of the, “Staff Draft on Highly Automated Vehicle Testing and Deployment:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A former United States postal worker has pled guilty to theft of mail she obtained from her delivery route in Hillsboro Beach, Florida.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: “Think about it. Right now on my phone I can pull up an airline’s app, pick a flight to O’Hare airport, see the price, pick my seat, get a boarding pass, and have not just a hope, but an expectation that I will be able book travel halfway across the country in under a minute, and if I have to wait for that loading circle for more than ten seconds I think, ‘This thing is junk.’.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee markup of the, “Staff Draft on Highly Automated Vehicle Testing and Deployment:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Well-known wildlife biologist and television host Jeff Corwin testified at today’s Natural Resources Committee hearing that despite frequently repeated Republican talking points, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been a tremendous success since its inception and has led to the recovery of iconic species - including the bald eagle - that would be extinct today if the law had been weakened or abandoned in the past.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Floyd Wood to Serve 10 Years for Planning a Sexual Encounter with Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A man who distributed heroin laced with fentanyl that caused a near-fatal overdose was convicted by a jury on July 19, 2017, after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Wednesday, July 26, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the Extension of Special Needs Plans."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - John Calvin Baltimore, age 37, of Clinton, Maryland was sentenced to 30 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release and restitution of $239,609 by U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis. Baltimore pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a scheme where he defrauded his employer by stealing cash from a large safe under his control.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A Georgia resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and access device fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Potomac, MD - The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park (C&O Canal) is excited to host an event during the fourth annual Latino Conservation Week (LCW). LCW is being held Saturday, July 15, 2017 through Sunday, July 23, 2017 all across the country. LCW is an initiative of Hispanic Access Foundation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Ahead of Trump’s voter commission’s first meeting , House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. convened a forum with the Congressional Black Caucus, Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and House Judiciary Committee Democrats to examine voting rights and privacy concerns related to recent requests made by the commission’s co-chair, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, to obtain detailed voter-roll information.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: (RAWLINS, Wyo.) - The Bureau of Land Management Rawlins Field Office is implementing Stage 1 Fire Restrictions for all BLM-administered lands within Carbon County beginning July 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Three Georgia men and a New Jersey woman were charged today with conspiring to illegally sell numerous firearms bound for New Jersey, including an assault rifle with a 75-round magazine and multiple handguns with extended magazines, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Jamaican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for running a false lottery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: A Canadian man pleaded guilty today in Rochester, New York to conspiring to defraud the United States and stealing government funds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. for the Western District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The Director of South Korea’s Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) was convicted yesterday following a four-day jury trial of laundering bribes that he received from two seismological companies based in California and England through the U.S. banking system. Sentencing is scheduled to occur before the Honorable John F. Walter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, on October 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The co-owners of an Indiana biofuel producer were sentenced today in the Northern District of Indiana by Senior Judge James T. Moody, announced the Justice Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: A former employee of a U.S. government contractor in Afghanistan pleaded guilty today to accepting over $250,000 in illegal kickbacks from an Afghan subcontractor in return for his assistance in obtaining subcontracts on U.S. government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The former owner and president of Chestnut Consulting Group Inc. and Chestnut Consulting Group Co. (the Chestnut Group) was sentenced to 60 months imprisonment today for bribing an official at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
