News from October 2017
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced it will markup three bills on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two inmates who possessed weapons at the Federal Correctional Institution at McDowell were sentenced to prison today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Antonio Freeman, 30, was sentenced to a year and a month in federal prison after previously pleading guilty to possession...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing examining the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) preparedness for, and response to, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Christopher Gerard Dickerson (39, Sanford) guilty of one count of conspiracy to distribute and possessing with the intent to distribute controlled substances, four counts of distribution and possession ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-On Monday, Oct. 23, 2017, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force arrested Kip Lessard, 26, without incident at his home in Chandler, Arizona.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Examining HHS’s Public Health Preparedness for and Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season:"
By Interior Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. - On Saturday October 28th, the Bureau of Land Management, Tonopah Field Office, will be hosting another round of public walking tours at Rhyolite, Nevada. The tours will be split into two sessions held at 10:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Patricia Astorga, who handled the case, stated that the defendant was a member of the Camp Street Gang, which operates in the Camp Street area of the City of Buffalo and is believed to be responsible for the distribution of illegal narcotics including cocaine. Tramell McGee distributed...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a St. Martinville man pleaded guilty Monday to drug distribution and firearm charges.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and cleanup contractor Fluor Idaho recently finished capping most of the Idaho Site tank farm with asphalt to reduce or eliminate the movement of water through contaminated soil to the Snake River Plain Aquifer 475 feet below the Idaho Nuclear Technology and Engineering Center (INTEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ALEX BORRERO, also known as “Red," 50, of New Haven, was arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with distributing fentanyl and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Victor Leos, 63, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced yesterday before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 24 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $317,482 in restitution for falsifying immigration documents, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Robert Oathout defrauded several elderly individuals before, during and after being incarcerated on unrelated charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement today on the widely reported reconstruction contract awarded to Whitefish Energy Holdings, a small company based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s home town of Whitefish, Mont.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Examining HHS’s Public Health Preparedness for and Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season:"
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced it will markup three bills on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two Houston area women and one man have been charged with wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Tucson International Airport (TUS) and seven other airports in Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Lafayette man was sentenced Monday to 100 months in prison for cocaine and firearm possession.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 24, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Examining HHS’s Public Health Preparedness for and Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season:"
