News from March 2017
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) outlined the long-term benefits of investing in a robust renewable energy sector today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Federal Energy-Related Tax Policy and its Effects on Markets, Prices, and Consumers:"
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In the latest of a growing list of requests to improve communications with Congress, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke urging him to reverse a recently discovered Department of the Interior (DOI) policy of blocking...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Carlos Matta Heredia, 32, of Phoenix, Ariz., was sentenced today in Las Cruces, N.M., to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his federal methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - Two Memphis women who used to work for the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS) have been found guilty and sentenced for unlawfully accessing confidential information on the Department’s computers. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Raeford, North Carolina, has been sentenced in federal court to one year and one day on his conviction of conspiracy and transferring counterfeit currency, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: BOISE, ID - It will be a busy two days at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wild Horse Corrals in Boise on Friday, March 31 and Saturday, April 1. Selected trainers--including some youth-- will pick up their mustangs on both days (8 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1-5 p.m.) to begin training and gentling them to compete in the Mustang Mania Trainer Incentive Program (TIP) Challenge, set to premiere in Nampa on July 1, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
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.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Facilitating the 21st Century Wireless Economy."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
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...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Facilitating the 21st Century Wireless Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Wei Xiang, who handled the sentencing, stated that the defendants were members of a gang known as the Loiza Boys which has been distributing heroin and cocaine on Buffalo’s West Side since at least 2006.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) outlined the long-term benefits of investing in a robust renewable energy sector today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Federal Energy-Related Tax Policy and its Effects on Markets, Prices, and Consumers:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Daniel Krull, 44, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of distribution of child pornography following a prior conviction under New York law for possessing a sexual performance by a child, was sentenced to 27 years in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Putnam County man was sentenced today to four years in federal prison for drug charges, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Christian Garrett Thornton, 30, previously pleaded guilty to four counts of distributing oxymorphone and one count of possession of oxymorphone with intent to distribute.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
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...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today announced a hearing for Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Facilitating the 21st Century Wireless Economy."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Adam Tyler Shrader, age 22, of Lancaster, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia to conspiracy to straw purchase a firearm, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371. United States District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis of Columbia accepted the guilty plea and will impose sentence after she has reviewed the presentence report that will be prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Yee Man Lui was sentenced to serve 40 months in prison for aggravated identity theft and access device fraud announced U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch and United States Postal Inspection Service Inspector in Charge Rafael Nuñez. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, U.S. District Judge, following Lui’s Sept. 14, 2016, guilty plea.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher C. Cozad, of Mount Clare, West Virginia, was convicted today in federal court for illegal possession of a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2017
News Release: Five men from Northeast Ohio were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja and Trevor Velinor, ATF Special Agent in Charge for the Columbus Field Division.
