News from September 2017
By DOL Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement opposing the ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 620).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut man was arrested and indicted yesterday on sex trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: ON FRIDAY, September 8th, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a forum entitled “Affirmative Action, Inclusion, and Racial Climate on America’s Campuses." Amidst national conversations on white supremacy, xenophobia, and racial inequality, reports surfaced suggesting that the Trump Administration has plans to reexamine the values of racial diversity on campuses.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) submitted the following opening remarks for the record for a Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing titled, “The Broadcast Incentive Auction: Update on Repacking Opportunities and Challenges"
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled “Missing from the Labor Force: Examining Declining Employment among Working-Age Men" on Wednesday, September 6, at 2:00 PM in room 1100 of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Aug. 31, 2017, a federal grand jury returned a two-count indictment against Elijah Lee Richter, 26, of Camino, charging him with distribution of a controlled substance known as 25i-nBOME that caused death, and possession of a controlled substance, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Erdal Kuyumcu, 45, of Woodside, N.Y., and the chief executive officer of the Woodside-based Global Metallurgy, LLC, was sentenced to 57 months in prison following his June 14, 2016 guilty plea to conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by exporting specialty metals from the U.S. to Iran.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: For the second time in just a few weeks, the Department of Transportation Inspector General (IG) issued a critical review of important aspects of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) NextGen air traffic control modernization effort.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Spokane- Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Daniel Lee Vadnais, age 53, of Moses Lake, Washington, was sentenced, after having previously pleaded guilty on May 25, 2017, to Receipt of Child Pornography. Chief United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Alexis Hernandez (52, Lilburn, GA) guilty of conspiracy to distribute more than one kilogram of heroin and more than five hundred grams of methamphetamine. He faces a minimum mandatory sentence of 20 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for Nov. 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: FBI and New Orleans PD Investigating Fidelity Bank Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States District Judge Stephen D. Merryday has sentenced Fayez Abu-Aish (51) and Nedal Abu-Aish (48) to 14 years in prison each for conspiring to distribute, distribution of, and possession with the intent to distribute a substance containing XLR-11. A federal jury found them both guilty in April 2017.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a hearing examining the opportunities and challenges of the FCC’s spectrum repack process following the Broadcast Incentive Auction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: CODY, Wyo. - With local community support and a shared goal of enhancing recreation opportunities, the Bureau of Land Management Cody Field Office will host site visits on Sept. 20 and 21 to gather input from the public about their desired recreational activities and experiences in the Cody Interface.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: The attached provides information about fires in Glacier National Park and surrounding areas.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: As Hurricane Irma heads toward the U.S. mainland, the Department of Energy (DOE) is closely monitoring energy infrastructure impacts and coordinating across the federal community, state and local governments, and with industry partners in order to facilitate communication and situational awareness of energy sector requirement and impacts, and provide subject matter expertise to expedite restoration.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) issued the following statement in response to a report in the New York Times that the owners of the nation’s largest government-subsidized residential property, Starrett City, may be selling the development in a deal that could personally benefit President Trump...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a New Orleans woman pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessing 282 counterfeited credit/debit cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Anthony Frank Angeli, Jr, age 54, of Moosic, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for stalking. The case was unsealed today following Angeli’s initial appearance before United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 7, 2017
News Release: New York Man Charged With Providing Material Support to ISIS.