News from October 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Tara Sweeney to be Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs within the Department of the Interior. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Following last week’s forum on sports-related brain trauma, Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to USA Football today requesting an update on the organization’s efforts to improve the safety of youth football programs and its process for evaluating player safety. The letter...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Following last week’s forum on sports-related brain trauma, Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to USA Football today requesting an update on the organization’s efforts to improve the safety of youth football programs and its process for evaluating player safety. The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Oct. 16, 2017, United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger sentenced Anthony McKinley Harris, 27, of Davenport, Iowa, to 175 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and 120 months in prison for felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADELE BOUTHILLIER, 43, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking of a minor and heroin distribution offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Nix, 37, of Rochester, NY, and Earl McCoy, 36, of Brooklyn, NY, who carried out a series of violent home invasions in the Rochester, NY area, were sentenced to 155 years and 135 years in prison respectively by U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, woman convicted of Possession of a Stolen Firearm was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining HHS’s Public Health Preparedness for and Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Moises Eufelio Martinez, Jr., 43, of Grants, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 108 months in prison for his conviction on a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Martinez will be on supervised release for four years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Top House and Senate Democratic health leaders demanded that the Trump Administration provide Congress with documents used to justify the Administration’s decision to terminate the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, including any analyses of the decision’s impact on consumer health insurance costs, access to health insurance, and federal spending, in letters sent today to the President and Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Jury deliberated 45 minutes before returning guilty verdict.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Matthew Nix, 37, of Rochester, NY, and Earl McCoy, 36, of Brooklyn, NY, who carried out a series of violent home invasions in the Rochester, NY area, were sentenced to 155 years and 135 years in prison respectively by U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Patrick Henry Stewart, age 53, of Centre Hall, Pennsylvania, was charged on Oct. 16, 2017, in a criminal information with making interstate wire transfers to defraud his former employer, Nittany Valley Paper Mills in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, of approximately $218,098.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A San Bernardino County man who prepared and filed fraudulent tax returns for both his clients and himself that claimed false business losses has been sentenced to serve eight months in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Following last week’s forum on sports-related brain trauma, Energy and Commerce Committee Democratic leaders sent a letter to USA Football today requesting an update on the organization’s efforts to improve the safety of youth football programs and its process for evaluating player safety. The letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Steven Zoernack (55, Sarasota) to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit wire fraud. He was also ordered to forfeit $2,890,518.54 in ill-gotten gains and to make restitution to victims in the amount of $3,435,194.56. Zoernack pleaded guilty on March 31, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge James E. Gates, DAMIN CHASE MARSHALL, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was charged in a federal Criminal Complaint with one count of Aggravated Sexual Abuse by Force or Threat.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai made his first comments in defense of the First Amendment nearly a week after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV networks he dislikes...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $26 million in federally funded financial assistance for cost-shared research and development projects under the Office of Fossil Energy’s (FE) Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies funding opportunity announcement (FOA).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today released a bipartisan report detailing their two-year investigation into foster care privatization and the increasing practice of states tasking private entities (for-profit and non-profit)...
