News from March 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today wrote to the Office of White House Counsel asking for clarification on Jared Kushner's compliance...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging eleven alleged members of a drug trafficking organization (DTO), with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine. The indictment was returned on March 7, 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing Energy Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities to Expanding Hydropower Generation"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Darrin Jones Named Special Agent in Charge of the Kansas City Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Court Also Permanently Bars Jason Stinson, Owner of “Nation Tax Services" from Preparing Tax Returns and Owning a Tax Preparation Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Dale Edson, 30, of Swanzey, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to possessing images of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced the conviction of a former investment adviser who stole up to $9.5 million from his victims in an investment fraud scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Modernizing Energy Infrastructure: Challenges and Opportunities to Expanding Hydropower Generation"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama, is pleased to announce that a jury has convicted defendants Dr. Xiulu Ruan and Dr. John Patrick Couch of numerous felonies following a seven-week trial.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Aviation Rick Larsen (D-WA) introduced H.R. 1420, the Know Before You Fly Act. This legislation enhances and strengthens protections...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke today pressing him to explain his stance on whether presidents can use the Antiquities Act to revoke national monument status at existing monument sites. In an early test for Zinke, Chairman Rob...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), ranking member of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt urging him to reissue an Obama-era information request...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Legislative Hearing on the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A grocery store owner from Union County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for stealing more than $1.1 million through a food stamp scheme, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Failed to Report Income Earned from Law Practice and Tax Preparation Business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the sentencing of DANIEL GEORGE FISHER, 57, to 12 months in prison for threatening to blow up the Tawfiq Islamic Center in Minneapolis. FISHER pleaded guilty on Nov. 30, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright in Saint Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Had Promised Teen an Education and Better Life.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dustin Andrew Parsons, 30, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today in federal court to 27 months incarceration for failing to register as a sex offender, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at the full Committee markup of the Republican’s proposal to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A 33-year old New Orleans man was sentenced today to more than 17 years in prison after pleading guilty in August to conspiring to distribute heroin and other drugs, including acetyl fentanyl shipped from China, to New Orleans area customers, announced Stephen G. Azzam the Special Agent-in-Charge of DEA’s New Orleans Field Division and United States Attorney Kenneth A. Polite.
