News from June 2017
By DOE 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 Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Welcome Director Homan, Chief Provost, and Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner Wagner. When the secretary appeared before this subcommittee a few weeks ago, I noted that his job was among the most challenging in government. Much of that challenge stems from the difficult missions of your agencies. One of your greatest challenges is enforcing our immigration laws while at the same time adhering to our American values.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
Release: SALT LAKE CITY - In what is expected to be one of the busiest summer travel seasons nationwide, officials with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Salt Lake City Airport (SLC) showcased one of the key assets they will use to keep passengers departing SLC safe and secure: canines specially trained to detect explosives and explosive components.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE MIRANDA, also known as “Omar," 52, of the Bronx, N.Y., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 74 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin and cocaine. Judge Bolden also ordered MIRANDA to pay a $5,000 fine.
By Commerce 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 Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee hearing on “Disrupter Series: Update on IoT Opportunities and Challenges"
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Chesapeake man with receipt and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 56-year-old Fishers, Indiana man has been sentenced to federal prison for committing perjury in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
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 DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging Larry Pagett, also known as “Biz," “Biz Loc" and “Molotovbizzz," with murder in-aid-of racketeering. Pagett was arraigned today at the federal courthouse in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Henderson, Nevada, man convicted of Attempted Trafficking in Involuntary Servitude and Forced Labor was sentenced on June 2, 2017, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report to President Trump recommending major changes to the protected status and conserved acreage of Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child and possessed child pornography was sentenced today to 50 years in federal prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office (202) 254-2385 The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has awarded $1.3 million to 12 small businesses for 13 Phase I contract awards to develop technology solutions to Homeland Security challenges.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 12, 2017 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the projects selected to receive the USDA’s annual farm to school grants designed to increase the amount of local foods served in schools. Sixty-five projects were chosen nationwide.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., June 12, 2017) – As part of the U.S.-China 100-Day Action plan announced on May 11, 2017 by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and Secretary of the Treasury Steven T. Mnuchin, the Trump Administration today has taken important steps toward commercial shipment of U.S. beef and beef ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: (Washington, DC, June 12, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has named Anne Hazlett, Chief Counsel to the Majority on the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, to lead the Rural Development agencies at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hazlett, whose ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that it will require General Electric Co. and Baker Hughes Incorporated to divest GE’s Water & Process Technologies business in order to proceed with their merger. The department said that the proposed transaction, without the divestiture, would substantially lessen competition for refinery chemicals and services in the United States, leading to higher prices and a reduction in service quality.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: A former executive of an Israel-based defense contractor was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his role in multiple schemes to defraud a multi-billion dollar United States foreign aid program, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 12, 2017
News Release: A Latvian man made his initial appearance today in Minneapolis following extradition from Poland for his involvement in a “scareware” hacking scheme that targeted the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s website and caused millions of dollars in losses to Internet users. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth ...
