News from November 2017
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: At 10:00 a.m. this morning, the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will mark up several bills, including H.R. 4460, the Disaster Recovery Reform Act. The bill reforms federal disaster programs and increases our focus on mitigation to ensure our communities are better prepared for future disasters.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI) Special Agent pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes in exchange for securing the dismissal of a drug trafficking indictment filed against a Colombian cocaine trafficker, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee leaders released the following statements after today’s House passage of H.R. 3017, the Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Two Woodland residents pleaded guilty today to a scheme to steal identities from mail obtained by fraudulent vacation holds and mail forwarding requests filed online, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Winter Events & Programs at C&O Canal National Historical Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) released its “dynamic" analysis of Senate Republicans’ tax legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last month, Juan Valentino Coronado, 46, of Tucson, Ariz., and enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to over 7 months in prison for failing to participate in sex-offender treatment, which he had been ordered to do as part of a previous conviction for sexually abusing a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Free, afternoon outings will run on Sunday Dec 3rd and 10th from 12:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Outings will go whenever weather/water/fish conditions allow. Space is limited. Call and register at 707-465-6191.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AHARON GOLDBERG, SHIMEN LIEBOWITZ, and BINYAMIN GOTTLIEB were sentenced today for their respective roles in devising and covering up a plot to kidnap and murder an individual in order to obtain a religious...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3017, the Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017 by a vote of 409-8. H.R. 3017 was spearheaded by #SubEnvironment Vice Chairman David McKinley (R-WV) and unanimously passed the committee in June.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Don Charles Owens, age 35, of Elma, Washington was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Thomas O. Rice to 18 years in prison for Armed Bank Robbery and Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence. Owens plead guilty to these offenses on Aug. 31, 2017.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing today exploring consumer identity verification practices after a series of massive data breaches compromised the personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - RALPH ALLAN LEE SHORTEY, 35, of Oklahoma City, pleaded guilty today to child sex trafficking, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today on the House Floor during consideration of H.R. 3017 Brownfields Enhancement, Economic Redevelopment, and Reauthorization Act of 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Indictment alleges a violent gang war that resulted in shooting deaths of multiple gang members.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) delivered the following opening remarks today at a subcommittee hearing on the “Latest Developments in Combating Online Sex Trafficking:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Sedgwick County man pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal charge of producing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: DURANGO, Colo. - Annual winter closures begin Dec. 1 for public areas and trails managed by the Bureau of Land Management’s Tres Rios Field Office, Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the City of Durango to protect critical big game winter range. These closures will remain in place through April 15.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Four Lubbock residents have been charged in a federal indictment, unsealed today, with felony offenses stemming from their role in a furanyl fentanyl distribution conspiracy, announced Special Agent-in-Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Dallas Division of the DEA and U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
