News from July 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Reps. Elijah E. Cummings, John Conyers, Jr., Bennie G. Thompson, and Robert A. Brady, Ranking Members of the House Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, Judiciary, Homeland Security, and House Administration, sent a letter to Vice President Michael Pence requesting that...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Environment Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of the Ozone Standards Implementation Act (H.R. 806):
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Defense Attorney was Consiglieri for Drug Organization.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to examine the status of U.S. and North American energy and resource security. The hearing examined everything from the significant benefits that have resulted from the elimination of the domestic ban on crude oil exports in December 2015 to the need to maintain U.S. nuclear leadership and improve our waning mineral security.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 10 a.m. in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight and Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission."
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Falsified a safety record. OWENSBORO, Ky. - The Chief of Maintenance at Ken American Resources Paradise #9 Mine located in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky, recently pleaded guilty to a federal grand jury indictment, in United States District Court, before Chief Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., charging him...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce’s Subcommittee on Environment Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor today during consideration of the Ozone Standards Implementation Act (H.R. 806):
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced today that Matthew Czap, age 68, formerly of Newark, was sentenced on July 12, 2017, by Chief U. S. District Court Leonard P. Stark to one year and one day of imprisonment and 2 years of supervised release. The sentencing came after Mr. Czap pleaded guilty on March 22, 2017 to one count of structuring financial transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on July 18, 2017, William Wilber IV (age: 35) of Shawano, Wisconsin, was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 10 years of imprisonment, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release. The sentence was the result of guilty pleas by Wilber on April 6, 2017 to two counts of Sexual Abuse of a Minor Under the Age of 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The owner of KLA International Inc., Quad Trade Services Inc., and TCI Technologies Inc., was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to defraud approximately 40 businesses out of more than $1 million, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing on “Powering America: Examining the State of Electric Industry through Market Participant Perspectives:"
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, July 25, 2017 at 10 a.m. in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Oversight and Reauthorization of the Federal Communications Commission."
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: BALTIMORE - A Guatemalan man wanted for homicide and attempted homicide in his native country was arrested July 13 in Annapolis by an Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) fugitive operations team assigned to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) offices in Baltimore.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jordan Roybal, 25, an enrolled member of the San Ildefonso Pueblo who resides in San Felipe Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A former correctional officer will now be on the other side of prison bars following his conviction of accepting bribes in his capacity as a public official, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Stephen Salinas, 23, of Edcouch, pleaded guilty Jan. 3, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Examining HRSA’s Oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Shatara Armstrong, 31, of Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of use of a facility of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Rep. Paul Cook (R-CA) introduced H.R. 3279, the “Helium Extraction Act of 2017." The bill authorizes the Bureau of Land Management to lease federal land for the purpose of helium production under the same lease terms as oil and gas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that additional charges have been filed against two former corrections officers at the Jackson County Detention Center and three others indicted by a federal grand jury today related to conspiracies to smuggle contraband cell phones and other items to inmates.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary Kelly: We write to express our serious and growing concern that U.S. Department of Homeland Security personnel have taken steps to erode longstanding protections for immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other crimes, undermining the bipartisan...
