News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Darren Kattan and Charles Bayer Designed, Manufactured, and Distributed the Fraudulent Devices.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation will hold two public scoping meetings to gather information from other agencies, interested parties, and the public on the scope of alternatives for the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the Shasta Dam Fish Passage Evaluation (SDFPE) ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee hearing on “Promoting Security in Wireless Technology:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining cybersecurity risks to wireless technologies with a particular focus on wireless networks and mobile devices.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a hearing to discuss how businesses are leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to create, innovate, and connect. Following the bipartisan IoT Showcase, witnesses discussed how...

By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a markup for Thursday, June 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced a markup for Thursday, June 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JUAN THOMPSON pled guilty today to one count of cyberstalking and one count of making hoax bomb threats as part of THOMPSON’s campaign to harass and intimidate a particular woman (“Victim-1"), by, among other things, communicating at least 12 threats to Jewish Community Centers (“JCCs") and other Victim Organizations in Victim-1’s name.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Fresno man was arrested this morning on a federal criminal charge of copyright infringement that alleges he posted the movie “Deadpool" to his Facebook page.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Ellis Island, NY - It took two years to develop, and the results will have head(sets) spinning in the Great Hall of the National Museum of Immigration on Ellis Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Inman was sentenced to 34 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down June 7, 2017, by the Honorable Charles...

By DOE Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) announcement that FDA intends to delay implementation for the updated Nutrition Facts Label...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today held a hearing to discuss how businesses are leveraging the Internet of Things (IoT) to create, innovate, and connect. Following the bipartisan IoT Showcase, witnesses discussed how...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the “Hearing on the Nominations of Kristine Svinicki (Reappointment), Annie Caputo and David Wright to be Members of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Nomination of Susan Bodine to be Assistant Administrator ...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining cybersecurity risks to wireless technologies with a particular focus on wireless networks and mobile devices.

By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will decrease flow from Lucky Peak Dam by 1,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) Wednesday, June 14, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Framingham man pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to sexually exploiting approximately 150 boys by posing as a teenage girl on the internet and convincing them to send nude photos and videos of themselves to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday - Building a Digital Defense Against PII (Part 2).

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: A man who possessed methamphetamine with intent to distribute it in a home where children were present and lived and who also illegally possessed guns was sentenced June 12, 2017, to more than eight years in federal prison.

By EPA Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) sent a letter to Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today requesting that a potential Environment Subcommittee markup intended for Thursday, June 15, be postponed until the appropriate federal agencies are able to provide comment on the legislation under consideration.