News from July 2017
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding a recently released Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel to Review the 2014 Smallpox (Variola) Virus Incident on the NIH Campus. The leaders noted that the report pointed out previous missed opportunities to discover vials of the smallpox virus.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was sentenced to 30 months in prison for illegally trafficking two dozen firearms purchased over a weekend at a gun show in Medina County, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Trevor Velinor, ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a markup for Thursday, July 13, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In order to meet requirements set by legislation passed by Congress in December 2016, the price of the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass will increase from $10 to $80. The change will take effect Aug. 28, 2017. Pass holders are given lifetime...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal jury in Scranton returned a verdict yesterday for life imprisonment for Jessie Con-Ui, age 40, a federal inmate, for the first-degree murder of U.S. Correctional Officer Eric Williams. Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo scheduled the formal imposition of the life sentence for Oct. 12, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Despite promises of more choices, lower costs, and the ability to access quality care close to home, Obamacare has failed the American people for the past seven years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Individual Previously Deported Four Times. BOSTON - A Honduran man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for illegally reentering the United States after deportation. Rumeni D. Romero, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Douglas P. Woodlock to 42 months in prison and three...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration today launched CampusDrugPrevention.gov, a new website focused on preventing and addressing college drug use.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: DAYTON, OHIO - The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced today that they have completed a thorough, independent investigation into the fatal shooting of John Crawford III on August 5, 2014, by Beavercreek Police Officer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: STATESVLLE, N.C. - Nathan Matthew Jennings-Townsend, 25, of Newton, N.C. was sentenced late yesterday by U.S. District Judge Richard L. Voorhees to 240 months in prison on child pornography charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Jennings-Townsend was also ordered to serve a lifetime of supervised release and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the New Jersey set of the Grape Street Crips today admitted his role in a racketeering conspiracy that involved using other gang members to intimidate a witness during a state criminal trial, as well as conspiracies to distribute heroin and crack-cocaine, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that David B. Watson, Sr., 56, of Madison, Maine was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 16 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to defraud the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). Watson was also ordered to pay about $48,405 in restitution.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced two hearings as part of the committee’s new “Powering America" series. The “Powering America" series will provide committee members the opportunity to explore electricity markets, learn more about electricity generation, distribution, consumption, and the resiliency of the electric grid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hingham man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for defrauding neighbors and other acquaintances of approximately $437,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Park officials have identified the 38-year-old man recovered early Sunday morning near the bottom of Kīlauea caldera as Gregory Michael Ure, also known as Leo Michael Adonis, of California. His last known address was La Mesa, CA.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) regarding a recently released Report of the Blue Ribbon Panel to Review the 2014 Smallpox (Variola) Virus Incident on the NIH Campus. The leaders noted that the report pointed out previous missed opportunities to discover vials of the smallpox virus.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced two hearings as part of the committee’s new “Powering America" series. The “Powering America" series will provide committee members the opportunity to explore electricity markets, learn more about electricity generation, distribution, consumption, and the resiliency of the electric grid.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a markup for Thursday, July 13, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Nimon Naphaeng, 36, a native and citizen of Thailand, who resided in Wakefield, R.I., was sentenced Monday to 27 months in federal prison for running an immigration fraud scheme that defrauded more than 320 individuals, most of them immigrants, of at least $400,000, and perhaps as much as in excess of $518,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced two hearings as part of the committee’s new “Powering America" series. The “Powering America" series will provide committee members the opportunity to explore electricity markets, learn more about electricity generation, distribution, consumption, and the resiliency of the electric grid.
