News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Dawn Anderson, a/k/a Prestige, Ashlie Onyedika, Shawn Lewis, and Distincvision, LLC, d/b/a Liquidation Outlet Center, have been arraigned on violations of federal firearms laws. Anderson and Distincvision, LLC, d/b/a Liquidation Outlet Center (“LOC") have been charged with the failure of a federally licensed firearms dealer to keep proper records. Onyedika, Lewis, and LOC have been charged with selling firearms to a convicted felon.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Examining Initiatives to Advance Public Health:"
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Across America, nearly 5 million young people are “disconnected" - not working and not in school. In my congressional district in Chicago, almost 17,000 young people - 17 percent of youth between ages 16 and 24 - are not working or going to school. The rate is even higher for young African-American men - in 2014, nearly half of African-American men between age 20 and age 24 in Chicago were disconnected from both school and work.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Examining Initiatives to Advance Public Health:"
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Two chaplains from Arlington National Cemetery will join a National Park Service (NPS) historian at the Gettysburg National Military Park and Visitor Center May 27 to discuss the meaning of Memorial Day.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - With medical innovations on the rise, there’s plenty of reason for patients and their loved ones to have hope for new treatments and cures. The FDA Reauthorization Act (FDARA) of 2017 will boost these innovations, delivering for patients and manufacturers.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, resubmitted a request for information and documents to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt after receiving an entirely non-responsive letter from his office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Isaiah Johnson, 37, of Dover, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that IVAN ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, age 26, of Clayton, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by no more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that COREY CELESTINE, age 33, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to participating in a heroin distribution conspiracy in the lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. CELESTINE pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following one of the largest global cyberattacks in history, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) introduced the Protecting our Ability To Counter Hacking (PATCH) Act, bipartisan legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced the appointment of former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate “any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - The United States Attorney's Office announced today that William “Chuckie" Clarett was convicted of federal conspiracy to commit murder for hire involving the murder of Travis Hayden.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TYNEKIA BUCKLEY, age 44, of New Orleans, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information charging her with conspiracy to commit honest services mail fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “The Current Status of the Medicare Program, Payment Systems, and Extenders" on Thursday, May 18, at 2:00 PM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Vern Buchanan (R-FL) today sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen requesting...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to robbing a coin and jewelry store while pointing a gun at the elderly store owner and a customer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), the ranking member, issued the following statements after the Department of Homeland Security Blue Campaign Reauthorization Act passed through committee...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining four bipartisan bills to advance public health.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mitchell, South Dakota, man convicted of two separate counts of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 15, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
