News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man has been arrested and charged in connection with a bank robbery in Bergen County in January 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Texas man to six years and three months in prison for a scheme to steal more than $650,000 from a retirement account after the account owner and his designated beneficiary both died, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Full Committee markup of legislation on autonomous vehicles, safe drinking water, and public health...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JUSTIN PARKER, also known as “Tre," 31, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Patrick D. Cummings (44, Pinellas County) has pleaded guilty to interference with commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. He faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on the robbery charge, followed by a mandatory minimum consecutive prison term of seven years, up to life, on the firearm charge.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s willingness to deliver threats against the state of Alaska, in retaliation for Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-Alaska) principled stance against Trumpcare, was an alarming sign of how far the administration’s ethical standards have fallen and how irresponsible the Interior Department has become. Grijalva plans to request a formal investigation later today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Thursday, Aug. 3, 2017, to consider a number of pending nominations. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced new hires and a promotion on his Committee staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Defendant Fought Extradition from Canada for more than a Decade following 41 kilo Cocaine Smuggling Attempt in October 2005.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Miguel Angel Mauricio-Ramirez, age 35, and a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today to time served (24 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By State Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. B Today, U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. sentenced Mario Canino-Morales to 109 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release on drug trafficking and firearms offenses, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved seven committee bills including H.R. 3388, Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution Act or the “SELF DRIVE Act." Passing with unanimous bipartisan support at 54-0, this legislation will prioritize consumer safety, reduce traffic-related fatalities, and clarify federal and state roles around emerging automated vehicle technologies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today approved seven committee bills including H.R. 3388, Safely Ensuring Lives Future Deployment and Research in Vehicle Evolution Act or the “SELF DRIVE Act." Passing with unanimous bipartisan support at 54-0, this legislation will prioritize consumer safety, reduce traffic-related fatalities, and clarify federal and state roles around emerging automated vehicle technologies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ahead of this morning’s 10:00 a.m. hearing in the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) questioned Republicans’ insistence on blocking federal agencies from accounting for the social cost of carbon - an important measure of the cost to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Charge Arises out of HSI and DEA Investigation Resulting in Seizure of Six Kilograms of Cocaine and a Kilogram of Heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a legislative hearing on three bills to bring greater certainty to the mining industry and shield economic development and energy projects from politically motivated actions.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-WA) sent a letter today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) requesting an expanded investigation, and additional information, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Ray Mendiola, 36, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 144 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for his conviction on cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking charges. Mendiola was also ordered to forfeit 14 firearms and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today marked up seven bipartisan bills. Five of the bills originated from #SubHealth, and will advance public health. The #FullCmte also considered bills from #SubDCCP and #SubEnvironment.
