News published on Federal Newswire in March 2017

News from March 2017


Walden & Upton Comment on Westinghouse Bankruptcy Announcement

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), today issued the following statement after Westinghouse announced this morning that they were filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.


News Release: Johnny Santiago Valdez Calderon, 24, a dual citizen of the United States and the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on March 27, 2017, to serve 61 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for engaging in a wire fraud and identity theft scheme, announced Jack Smith, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) responded to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s latest action to undermine the Lifeline Program...


News Release: Defendant Received Over $3.5 Million from USDA for Food Stamps Traded for Cash; Defendant Exploited Fact that the Program Relies on Trust.


News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 48-year-old McKinney, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.


Owner of Medical Equipment Provider Sentenced to 12 Years In Federal Prison For Collecting A Debt By Extortion and for Tax and Health Care Fraud Conspiracies

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Marvin J. Garbis sentenced Harry Crawford, age 57, of Baltimore, Maryland, on March 28, 2017, to 12 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Crawford previously pleaded guilty to collection of a debt by extortionate means from victim David Wutoh; conspiracy to commit health care fraud; and conspiracy to defraud the United States, for not reporting income from the health care fraud scheme on his taxes.


Man sentenced for threatening to damage government buildings

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jeremy E. Smith, 37, an incarcerated individual at the United States Penitentiary at Hazelton, was sentenced to 27 months incarceration for threatening to destroy government buildings, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.


Rochester Man Sentenced In Connection With The Robbery Of A 7-Eleven

News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Douglas E. Gregory, who handled the case, stated that Lowry was sentenced for his role in the Aug. 10, 2015, armed robbery of the 7-Eleven Convenience store at 1469 Lake Avenue in Rochester. Lowry and co-defendant Johnny Blackshell entered the 7-Eleven store intending to steal...


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), welcomed the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's Water Quality Division Administrator Kevin Frederick to the committee. Mr. Frederick was testifying before the committee at a hearing on “Cleaning up Our Nation's Cold War Legacy Sites."


Chairman Roberts Announces Committee Vote on USDA Secretary Nominee Gov. Sonny Perdue

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting to vote whether to favorably report the nomination of Governor Sonny Perdue to be the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture to the full Senate.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining federal energy tax policy and its effect on markets, prices, and consumers.


#SubEnergy Examines Energy Tax Policy and its Impact on Markets, Prices, and Consumers

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today held a hearing examining federal energy tax policy and its effect on markets, prices, and consumers.


Man from Mexico sentenced to 6 months in prison for reentering the U.S. illegally for the second time

News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a citizen of Mexico was sentenced Monday to six months in prison for re-entering the United States illegally.


Reclamation Announces Summer 2017 Park Events and Park Ranger Interpretive Programs at Lake Berryessa

News Release: NAPA, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation’s Central California Area Office


E&C Leaders Comment on President Trump’s Executive Action to Address Opioid Epidemic

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued the following statement after President Trump took executive action to commence a commission that will conduct a review of our federal policies regarding ways to combat the opioid epidemic and provide assistance to those suffering.


Tahlequah Man Sentenced To 120 Months For Firearm Possession

News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JULIUS FERRELL BLACK, age 30, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM within the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).


Committee Approves Bills to Improve Federal Disaster Response, Repeal MPO Rule

News Release: The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today approved nine bills, including three bills to improve federal disaster response programs, and a repeal of a rule that places unnecessary burdens on Metropolitan Planning Organizations.


E&C Leaders Comment on President Trump’s Executive Action to Address Opioid Epidemic

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today issued the following statement after President Trump took executive action to commence a commission that will conduct a review of our federal policies regarding ways to combat the opioid epidemic and provide assistance to those suffering.


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing entitled, “Realizing Nationwide Next-Generation 911."


Member of Grant County Methamphetamine Trafficking Ring Sentenced to Prison

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Crystal Medina Gomez, 50, of Silver City, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 30 months of imprisonment for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Gomez will be on supervised release for three years after completing her prison sentence.