News from May 2017
By DOE Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House voted 217 to 213 in favor of Trumpcare...
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation to repeal Obamacare and begin rebuilding our health care system.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 1628, the American Health Care Act (AHCA), legislation to repeal Obamacare and begin rebuilding our health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Momentive Performance Materials Silicones, LLC (“MPM") has agreed to pay a $1.25 million civil penalty to resolve a complaint alleging violations of federal and state environmental laws in connection with MPM’s use of an incinerator at a manufacturing facility that it owns and operates...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that William Chism, III, age 27, Richard Earl Davis, age 24, and Colby Syhur Grant, age 23, all from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were indicted on May 3, 2017, by a federal grand jury on charges related to an illegal firearms trafficking operation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Kenneth A. Blanco, the Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, announced that MAHMOUD THIAM was convicted in Manhattan federal court yesterday of money laundering charges...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Reno man was indicted on Wednesday for the sexual exploitation of an infant and distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: HAMMOND-Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Robert E. Stochel, age 64, of Crown Point, Indiana was convicted of mail fraud, after a three-day jury trial before District Court Senior Judge Rudy Lozano.
By Commerce Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Education and the Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA), and Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement on the Trump Administration’s executive order subverting civil rights protections under the guise of religious freedom...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Former Military Sealift Command Contractor Charged with Bribery and Fraud.
By EPA Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House voted 217 to 213 in favor of Trumpcare...
By Interior Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Robert Pugsley, wastewater treatment plant operator for Buffalo National River received the 2017 Wastewater Outstanding Achievement Award from the Arkansas Water Works and Water Environment Association. The award recognizes exceptional service for a utility serving fewer than 5,001 people. Pugsley, a...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant distributed pamphlets at homeless shelters and open markets.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a federal jury found a former bookkeeper for a Sulphur oil field company guilty of stealing more than $4 million while working there.
By Homeland Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: BALTIMORE - A Maryland man arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) special agents faces a maximum of 120 years in prison after he was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on multiple counts of producing and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously deported four times. BOSTON - A Colombian man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Worcester to drug and immigration charges. Leonardo Franco, 45, a Colombian national who resided in Worcester, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. C A federal jury found Alexander Nathan Norris, 28, of Davis, guilty of distribution and possession of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - ATF agents and local task force officers fanned out across Tuscaloosa County today to arrest defendants indicted last month as part of a drug ring trafficking methamphetamine and cocaine in the county, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido and West Alabama Narcotics Task Force Captain Wayne Robertson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Darrell Smith, age 61, from Forest City, Iowa, has been charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and aggravated identity theft. The charges are contained in a Complaint filed last month in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids. The Complaint follows Smith’s conviction and 13-month prison sentence imposed late last year for payroll tax fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 4, 2017
News Release: Former Guinean Minister of Mines Convicted of Receiving and Laundering $8.5 Million in Bribes from China International Fund and China Sonangol.
