News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former director of South Korea’s Earthquake Research Center at the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources (KIGAM) has been found guilty of using a Southern California bank account to launder bribes he received from two seismological companies, including one based in Pasadena.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: The unassuming office in Williston, Vermont, supports enforcement of the nation’s immigration laws and plays an important role in the identification of criminal aliens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Field Exercise Hones Child Abduction Response.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Alfred Yale, age 37, a resident of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to serve 262 months’ imprisonment for drug distribution resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Edwin Fuentes Billed Patients for Services Not Administered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY, - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today that Jose Compuesto, 52, of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud the United States and...
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the Five Deuce Broadway Gangster Crips (BGC) - who was found guilty by a jury last year of conspiring to engage in racketeering activities, which included him selling crack cocaine on Skid Row - has been sentenced to 360 months in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining Health Resources and Services Administration’s (HRSA) oversight of the 340B drug pricing program.
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled that the Senate would attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) after the Senate’s latest version of Trumpcare failed to gain enough votes to pass...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing titled, “Commodities, Credit, and Crop Insurance: Perspectives on Risk Management Tools and Trends for the 2018 Farm Bill."
By Commerce 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: ERIE, Pa. - Five residents of Erie, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal drug and money laundering laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Willie Tyler, age 65, formerly of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, was convicted of witness tampering through physical force and murder for his role in a homicide in April 1992. The jury returned the verdicts after two-hours of deliberation after a four-day trial in Harrisburg before United States District Court Judge John E. Jones, III.
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: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, joined fellow Committee member Sen. Luther Strange, R-Ala., in meeting with over 100 Alabama farmers to discuss Farm Bill priorities for Southern producers.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A woman from Fort Worth, Texas, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of using a facility of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise related to a child sex trafficking organization.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held its first hearing as part of its recently announced “Powering America" series. The Powering America series provides members the opportunity to explore electricity markets, learn more about electricity generation, distribution, and consumption, and the resiliency of the electric grid.
