News from November 2017
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a joint Subcommittees on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection and Communications and Technology hearing titled “Algorithms: How Companies’ Decisions About Data and Content Impact Consumers:"
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: FBI Arrests Atlanta Police Department Top Ten Fugitive; Charged with Aggravated Assault on Girlfriend and Uber Driver While Out on Bond for Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Jeffrey Wertkin pleaded guilty today to two counts of obstruction of justice and one count of transportation of stolen property, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch; Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, Fraud Detection Office Special Agent in Charge Lewe...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced that ANDREW EASTERLY, age 20, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to transporting child pornography. Easterly faces a significant period of imprisonment when sentenced on March 29, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: COLLEGE PARK, Md.-Two independent teams of scientists, including one from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI, University of Maryland/NIST), have used more than 50 interacting atoms to mimic magnetic quantum matter, surpassing the complexity of previous demonstrations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States today extradited Inocente Orlando Montano Morales, a former colonel in the Salvadoran army, to stand trial in Spain for charges related to the murder of five Spanish Jesuit priests in El Salvador in 1989. This is one of the first top-ranking Salvadoran commanders to face criminal prosecution.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Ahead of tomorrow’s hearing on combating sex trafficking online, Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) penned an op-ed on this important issue for The Tennessean.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), and the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a joint hearing today on algorithms and their impact on consumers.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a Romanian citizen today for his role in a government contract kickback scheme that caused a loss of more than $3.4 million to the U.S. Department of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Dana Michelle Lawrence, 43, of Nashua has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for using another person’s social security number.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man who led officers on a high-speed pursuit on a stolen motorcycle at speeds up to 125 miles per hour across three counties was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: Darrell Wylie, 25, and Namir White, 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, were charged today by Indictment with interference with interstate commerce by means of robbery, brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and theft of government funds, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. Wylie was further charged in the Indictment with unlawfully possessing a firearm, having previously been convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) New York Division, Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor, New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill, New York State Police Superintendent George P. Beach II and U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a St. Joseph, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man who was part of a group selling heroin in Huntington in 2015 pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Marquis Tamal Quinton Evans, 24, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York woman today admitted running an investment scheme that defrauded victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to one charge of violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, (202) 254-2296 WASHINGTON – Four Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) research and development projects received top ASTOR Homeland Security Awards from American Security Today in a ceremony Nov. 16, at the ISC East Security Conference in New York City.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS S&T Press Office, (202) 254-2296 WASHINGTON—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the commercialization of another Transition to Practice (TTP) program technology—the sixth marketplace transition in the last six months.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2017 – Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of six members to serve on the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. The terms for these appointees are effective immediately and expire on June 30, 2020.
