News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREVOR MURPHY, also known as “Snookie," 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 360 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for murdering Joseph Zargo on Dec. 23, 2011.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following last night’s contentious, partisan Committee markup of Republican legislation to reauthorize both the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers and public health laws...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TIMOTHY JOHNSON, age 35, pled guilty yesterday to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following last night’s contentious, partisan Committee markup of Republican legislation to reauthorize both the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), Community Health Centers and public health laws...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced today that Mickayla Peters, 19, of Newport, VT and Kenneth Seales, 40, of New York, were charged yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington with possession with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Peters is awaiting sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Thomas Burch, 75, of Alexandria, Virginia, was sentenced today to five months of incarceration, to be followed by five months of home detention, for embezzling at least $149,317 while he was the president of the National Vietnam Veterans Foundation, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy hearing on, “Powering America: Consumer-Oriented Perspectives to Improve the Nation’s Electricity Markets:"
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Christopher C. Myers announces that on October 5, 2017, MODESTO TORREZ, age 35, of Angus, MN, was found guilty of: Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute and Distribute a Controlled Substance; Murder in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Conspiracy; Aiding and Abetting...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry announced that on Oct. 2, 2017, the first-ever shipment of U.S. crude oil arrived in India. Following Prime Minister Modi’s visit with President Trump, Indian companies ramped up purchases of U.S. crude.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Norman Thompson, 36, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay $38,086.75 in restitution for conspiring to obtain mail by fraud, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Oct. 12, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Department of Energy Missions and Management Priorities." Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry will testify as the sole witness.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today released a new report on neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), as required as part of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA), which is now law (Public Law No: 114-198 ).
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: This fall, the Senate Finance Committee took a deep dive into examining effective policy solutions to make the United States a more inviting place to do business.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: A 34-year employee of an Everett, Washington battery company was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to three years in prison, three years of supervised release, and $2,427,478 in restitution for embezzling from her employer, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. JUDITH HUTCHINSON...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Today, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced several Department of Justice actions to reduce the rising tide of violent crime in America. Foremost of those actions is the reinvigoration of “Project Safe Neighborhoods," a program that has been historically successful in bringing together all levels of law enforcement to reduce violent crime and make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) today wrote to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) requesting an investigation into the alleged waste, fraud, and abuse related to the installation of a “privacy booth" in EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s office.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), announced today that the hearing titled “21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies’ Impact on U.S. Jobs" has been rescheduled for Oct. 12, 2017, at 10:15am, in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.as they are posted.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today that Ross Gould, 30, formerly of Winchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute over a kilogram of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TREVOR MURPHY, also known as “Snookie," 29, of West Haven, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 360 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for murdering Joseph Zargo on Dec. 23, 2011.
