News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Newport News man was sentenced to 34 years in prison today for his role in five armed robberies of Tidewater businesses.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news that President Trump has nominated Alex Azar for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS):
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Government Reform Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General David L. Hunt today requesting an investigation into whether FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has taken improper actions to benefit Sinclair Broadcast Group.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today announced it will markup four bills on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Mexican citizen who illegally resided in Houston was ordered to federal prison for his conviction of trafficking nearly six kilograms of methamphetamine, announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division and
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news that President Trump has nominated Alex Azar for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS):
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: What started out as a promise of a significant middle class tax cut has become a multi-trillion dollar bait and switch, a massive handout to multinational corporations and a bonanza for tax cheats and powerful political donors. For millions in the middle class, this will not be a tax cut at all - it...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A former Business Manager for the Reno Valley Retirement Center was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for stealing from an elderly resident’s bank account, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, will lead a roundtable discussion on Tuesday, 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 Act of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Last week, Bernardo Romo-Ramos, 35, of Sonoyta, Sonora, Mexico, and a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 200 months of imprisonment. Bernardo Romo-Ramos had previously pleaded guilty to importation of more than 500 grams of methamphetamine. This was Romo-Ramos’s fourth drug trafficking conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The Dripping Springs Natural Area, including the visitor center, picnic sites and all the hiking trails within the area, will be closed to visitors on Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Damian Quillinan, age 44, of Ballston Spa, New York, pled guilty today to receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that on Thursday a federal jury found Alfredo Gonzalez, 50, of Manchester, New Hampshire, guilty of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 135,000 metric tons of soybean cake and meal for delivery to the Philippines during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana, through its Joint Montana Human Trafficking Task Force, is hosting a meeting and training on the status of human trafficking for the regional human trafficking task forces from across the state. The training is in collaboration...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN VOLOSHIN, 61, formerly of New Haven and Woodbridge, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a fraud scheme and for violating a condition of his federal supervised release from a prior conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Halima Ouedraogo, 36, most recently of Kirkland, Washington, was sentenced on November 9, 2017, in Miami by U.S. District Court Judge Federico Moreno to 11 years and 11 months in prison in connection with an extensive identity theft and access device fraud scheme. In a previous three-day trial, a jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Della Ornelas, 49, and Randall Ruff, 53, both of Fresno, were sentenced today by United States District Judge Dale A. Drozd to six months in prison for aiding others in the preparation of false tax returns, and making their own fraudulent tax returns as an employee of the United States, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. They both were also ordered to serve six months in home confinement and to pay full restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: FBI Seeks Violent and Armed Commercial Robbery Crew.
By State Newswire | Nov 13, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This evening the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation (H. Res. 599) regarding United States policy towards Yemen. Specifically, the legislation notes the urgent need for a political solution in Yemen; calls for sanctions on Iranian activities in Yemen; and seeks to improve access for humanitarian organizations, medical relief personnel, and journalists.
