News from August 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released a Senate Finance Committee report highlighting how US banks received billions of dollars in tax windfalls as their profits reached historic highs.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant arrested at SFO while boarding a flight for Serbia.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Eric Powell and Ahmad McCormick, former owners and operators of National Vocation Group, who lured hundreds of job-seekers into paying for needless pre-employment certification training have been sentenced to federal prison for wire fraud.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Ross: The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is continuing to conduct oversight of this Administration’s trade policies, specifically relating to the tariffs on steel and aluminum. I write to respectfully request information about the process by which businesses may...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Shawn D. Schell, of Hedgesville, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the August 2018 Federal Grand Jury.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: GLEN JEAN, WV- The National Park Service and Friends of New River Gorge National River are planning a series of projects this fall to show “love" to Bluestone National Scenic River. Community members are invited to sign up for volunteer events that will take place along the popular Bluestone Turnpike...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Plea Agreement Recommends Imposition of Six Year Prison Sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The 9th Circuit Court decision nullified efforts by the Trump Administration to overturn a proposed ban on the pesticide, which has been found to pose a health hazard to humans...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A federal court jury in Providence today convicted Jhonmar Roman, 25, of Providence, of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to an order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to ban the use of the pesticide chlorpyrifos. The 9th Circuit Court decision nullified efforts by the Trump Administration to overturn a proposed ban on the pesticide, which has been found to pose a health hazard to humans...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: CONCORD - United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Katrina Jones, 39, formerly of Goffstown, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 200 months in federal prison for drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Army Sergeant Maliek Kearney, age 37, of San Antonio, Texas, for interstate travel to commit domestic violence resulting in the death of Karlyn Ramirez, and for using, carrying, and possessing a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.
By State Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to ban all remaining uses of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Defendant had two prior removals for illegally entering the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Durrell Davenport, age 27, of Scranton, was sentenced on August 8, 2018, to ten years’ imprisonment and three year’s supervised release by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for two armed robberies of gas stations in the City of Scranton.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: Battle Mountain - The Bureau of Land Management, Mount Lewis Field Office, will be participating in the 2018 Feds Feed Families campaign and is asking the community of Battle Mountain to join us.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Charles Newkirk, 34, of Buffalo NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, 10 grams or more of butyryl fentanyl, was sentenced to 60 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 9, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) today urged Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Mick Mulvaney to consider the full economic effects of a proposed Health and Human Services (HHS)/Office of Inspector General rule that would alter the use of rebates that are common in negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers.
