News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of NKAJLO VANGH, 61, and his wife TRUE YANG VANGH, 52, for orchestrating a years-long, multi-million dollar fraud scheme. NKAJLO VANGH was sentenced to 90 months in prison and TRUE VANGH was sentenced to 72 months in prison. Both defendants entered guilty pleas and were sentenced yesterday before Senior Judge Michael J. Davis in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Erratum Note: The U.S. Census Bureau identified an error in the input of Supplemental Poverty Measure thresholds for renters used in the 2016 Supplemental Poverty Measure data products. The base threshold should have been $26,104 and was erroneously entered as $26,014. This error affected the Supplemental...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017, by voice vote.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced witnesses for the Committee’s upcoming hearing on nutrition programs in the Farm Bill.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced that the previously scheduled hearing entitled, “Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry," has been rescheduled into TWO parts.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today announced that the previously scheduled hearing entitled, “Powering America: Defining Reliability in a Transforming Electricity Industry," has been rescheduled into TWO parts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Christian Rodriguez, age 27, of Rogers, was sentenced today to 130 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $2,400.00 fine on one...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Workers have finished excavation to expose several waste transfer lines at the Savannah River Site (SRS), a significant milestone in integrating the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) with the liquid waste system.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: The seven Resilient Distribution Systems projects awarded through DOE’s Grid Modernization Laboratory Consortium (GMLC) will develop and validate innovative approaches to enhance the resilience of distribution systems - including microgrids - with high penetration of clean distributed energy resources...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation on self-driving cars.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Democrats today sent a letter to Equifax Chairman and CEO Richard Smith seeking more information about the massive data breach that has compromised the sensitive personal information of approximately 143 million Americans. The members asked what Equifax is doing...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Bedford, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown to a charge of conspiracy to distribute possess with intent to distribute and distribution of quantities of Tramadol, Zolpidem, Clonazepam, Lorazepam, and Carisoprodol, all of which are Schedule IV controlled substances, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed H.R. 931, the Firefighter Cancer Registry Act of 2017, by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Milford, Ohio, man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for using an Essex County, New Jersey, medical company’s credit card without the company’s permission to fraudulently obtain more than $950,000, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: CHEYENNE - Donald Sample, aka Donald Alexander Sheriff, age 60, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson to serve 360 months (30 years) in federal prison for bank robbery and the use of a firearm, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Chesapeake man pleaded guilty today to receipt of child pornography.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a hearing to consider two nominations within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Yesterday, Webster Wayne Norris, IV, 27, of Sacaton, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to 41 months in prison for two separate domestic violence offenses occurring on the Gila River Indian Community. Specifically, Norris was sentenced to 41 months’ imprisonment for...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: Defendant is currently serving up to a 20-year sentence for state drug convictions.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement after today’s announcement from the U.S. Department of Transportation on self-driving cars.
