News from November 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Jay Jackson, age 57, of Hershey, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to bankruptcy fraud related charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Defendant thought to have robbed a bank in Keenesburg and one in Lyons.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Adam Williams, a/k/a “Pacman," 37, of Worcester, Massachusetts was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock Jr. to six years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing cocaine base, commonly known as crack. Williams pleaded guilty to the offense on April 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Worcester to a federal immigration charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - This morning, Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings sentenced Leopoldo Herrera-Gandara, aka “Polo," 33 of Arch, New Mexico to 121 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in August 2017 to one count of distribution and possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor this morning during consideration of H.R. 3922...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Judge cited history of violent crime and drug dealing as reasons that the defendant is a danger to the community.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Sean Brown, 34, Los Angeles, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 11 years in federal prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine. Brown pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 11, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - DENNIS LEE, 44, of Nichols Hills, pled guilty today to possession of stolen property that crossed a state boundary and to being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. U.S. Attorney Yancey also announced that KENNETH DALE SMITH, 53, of Oklahoma City, has pled guilty to misprision of a felony in connection with interstate theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee was arrested today and charged in connection with embezzling over $22,000.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Representative Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Representative Gene...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking information on two incidents involving dumping buckets of human waste on public lands along Copper Gulch Road.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Following a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report highlighting a lack of project selection transparency, the bipartisan leadership of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the Highways and Transit Subcommittee today requested that GAO continue its oversight of a Department of Transportation competitive grant program for significant highway, bridge, and freight projects.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 3922, the CHAMPIONING HEALTHY KIDS Act, by a vote of 242-174. H.R. 3922 provides funding extensions of vital, popular public health programs, including...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking public nominations for one open position on the Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) in the Group 3 category. As published in a notice in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations for 30 days.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Mexican man, wanted in his home country for murder, was deported Oct. 20 by deportation officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOE Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting that the upcoming - Tuesday, November 7th - Energy Subcommittee hearing on two bills be postponed due to the lack of witnesses from both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Shots Fired in Broad Daylight; Defendant Also Pleads Guilty in Another Case.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Energy Subcommittee Ranking Member Bobby Rush (D-IL) sent a letter to Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Energy Subcommittee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today requesting that the upcoming - Tuesday, November 7th - Energy Subcommittee hearing on two bills be postponed due to the lack of witnesses from both the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Energy (DOE).
By EPA Newswire | Nov 3, 2017
News Release: Today, Ranking Members of the Committees on Science, Space & Technology and Energy & Commerce sent a letter to Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) strongly opposing the directive he issued imposing severe limitations on the scientific advice and expertise that the...
