News from November 2017
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today reacted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voting in favor of overhauling the media ownership rules and cutting some wireless companies from the Lifeline program, which provides phone and broadband service to more than 12 million low-income Americans...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II today announced the takedown of a ten-person drug trafficking ring that allegedly trafficked narcotics - including heroin and faux oxycodone pills which contained fentanyl - from California to Western New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Jeff Jensen has announced the promotion of Reginald “Reggie" Harris to be the Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri. Mr. Harris has been a federal prosecutor in St. Louis since 2002. This role will oversee focus on Project Safe Neighborhoods, an opioid initiative, and civil rights investigations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Comments Opposed VSB Legal Ethics Opinion 1888.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Jose Velazquez, age 27, was sentenced to 17 ½ years in prison yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, for participating in a heroin trafficking conspiracy that stretched from Stroudsburg to New York to the state of Maine, and forcing or coercing women into engage in prostitution in northeastern Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Nov. 14, MARK BERLIN, 64, of Boca Raton, Florida, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding three restaurant groups of millions of dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a statement after lobbyist William D. Campbell identified himself as the former “confidential informant" on whom Republicans based their decision to launch their latest investigation of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Uranium One.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “The Race to 5G and its Potential to Revolutionize American Competitiveness:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Two Virginia Department of Transportation officials and three private contractors have pleaded guilty to their involvement in a bribery scheme involving the awarding of over $10.3 million in snow removal contracts over the course of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Donovan Miller, 30, formerly of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Chief Judge Nancy Torresen to 15 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release for transporting an individual in interstate commerce with the intent that she engage in prostitution. He was also ordered to pay $500 in restitution to his victim.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - After announcing earlier this week that she would be leading a roundtable discussion on November 28 to discuss the need to strengthen Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enforcement against opioid distributors and her bill to repeal the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Michael McShane sentenced Patrick Snyder, 41, of Grants Pass, Oregon, and Juvenal Vega Rodriguez, 54, of Medford, Oregon, for perpetrating a large-scale immigration fraud and money laundering violations-more than 90 immigrants were defrauded out of more...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that JON C. BALLAY, age 58, of New Orleans, was charged in a three-count Indictment with production of images and videos depicting the sexual exploitation of a fourteen-year-old girl.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today announced that #SubEnvironment will be holding a hearing on Thursday, December 7, 2017 featuring Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today gave the following remarks at the Finance Committee on new analysis that shows the Senate Republican tax bill will raise taxes on hard working Americans by billions of dollars to pay for tax cuts for multinational corporations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Canton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for multiple drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on “The Race to 5G and its Potential to Revolutionize American Competitiveness:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Rodney Flucas, 49, of Stockton, charging him with transportation of a minor in interstate commerce with intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) requesting they convene a sector-wide effort to establish a plan of action for creating, deploying, and leveraging software bill of materials (SBOM) for health care technologies. The request follows a recent #SubOversight hearing examining HHS’ role in health care cybersecurity, and letters on outbreaks like NotPetya.
