News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CORTEZ THOMPSON, age 34, of New Orleans, was sentenced yesterday after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today urging him to hold oversight hearings on the use of private planes and government aircraft at significant taxpayer expense by members of the Trump Administration.
By Commerce 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 EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: An Update from FDA and NIH:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Jake M. Damron, 25, of Loveland, Ohio, was arrested yesterday and charged with receipt and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - New York-based proxy solicitation firm Georgeson LLC has entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $4.5 million criminal penalty to resolve the government’s criminal investigation into a conspiracy to bribe an employee of a proxy advisory firm as part of a scheme to defraud the advisory firm of confidential information about how its clients had voted on numerous shareholder proposals.
By Commerce 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: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan Carlos Cruz Figueroa, age 30, and a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today to time served (80 days in jail) for illegally re-entering the United States.
By DOE 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 Interior Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. - The Wyoming Landscape Conservation Initiative (WLCI) Executive Committee will meet beginning at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 11, 2017, and ending at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 12 (or earlier as necessary). The meeting will occur in the Elk Room at the Wyoming Game & Fish Department, 5400 Bishop Blvd, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Jackson, TN - Jeremy Seville Hall was sentenced to 9 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. D. Michael Dunavant, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a federal jury found a Clayton man guilty of possessing methamphetamine with intent to distribute and firearms charges.
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the committee will convene a hearing at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, December 7 entitled “Counterterrorism Efforts in Africa.".
By DOE Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to receive an update on efforts to combat sex trafficking online and examine H.R. 1865, the Allowing States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act.
By State Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Expressing deep concern over recent reports of slave auctions in Libya, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today urged President Donald J. Trump to make elimination of slavery a priority for ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 3905, the “Minnesota’s Economic Rights in the Superior National Forest Act." Introduced by Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), the bipartisan bill spurs economic growth and job creation through responsible development of mineral resources in Minnesota’s Superior National Forest.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Four Corporate Officers Admitted to Conspiring to Violate Federal Highway Safety Regulations.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Identity Verification in a Post-Breach World:"
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a hearing today to receive an update on efforts to combat sex trafficking online and examine H.R. 1865, the Allowing States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 30, 2017
News Release: A dual citizen of Australia and the United Kingdom pled guilty to transporting stolen gold and silver collectible coins in interstate and foreign commerce.
