News from August 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Huntington man that was indicted for his role in a major, multi-state heroin and fentanyl network pled guilty today to a federal drug conspiracy charge, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Terrell Redd, 43, entered his guilty plea to an indictment charging him with conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a final rule to allow short-term insurance plans for longer periods of time.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released his comment letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing grave concern in response to the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to the Title X Family Planning Program, which if adopted would severely limit women’s access to health care and undermine Congress’ intent for the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man employed with the Social Security Administration (SSA) was arrested today for unlawfully accessing the Social Security accounts of individuals and falsifying their records in order to steal government funds for his own use, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - Yesterday evening, after a seven-day jury trial, a jury found POPR Agent Iris Rivera Figueroa guilty of making false statements to federal authorities during a civil rights investigation, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa E. Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico. The trial was presided by U.S. District Court Judge Pedro A. Delgado.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that Antwoine Carnell Johnson, Age 23, of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, pled guilty to charges of Possession of Heroin with Intent to Distribute, Possession of Methamphetamine with Intent to Distribute, and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Crime. Johnson appeared before United States District Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. on July 31, 2018.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today are pleased the Senate has voted to move forward with the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee. The Senators also applauded the announcement of the Senators who will serve on the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -------- United States Attorney Sherri A. Lydon announced today that James Littlejohn, age 66, of Gaffney, South Carolina, was sentenced for two counts of theft of United States government funds in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. Senior United States District...
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), encouraged President Trump to nominate Andrew Wheeler to serve as the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 30, 2018, Fu Sheng Yang, 39, of Taipei City, Taiwan, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 33 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release. Yang had previously pleaded guilty to one count of attempting to smuggle goods from the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: An Environmental Assessment (EA) for a proposed geotechnical investigation is now available for a 30-day public review and comment period. The investigation will determine the engineering feasibility of relocating a portion of Olympic Hot Springs Road outside of the floodplain.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced a final rule to allow short-term insurance plans for longer periods of time.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ULPIANO LUGO, 38, of Groton, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing narcotics to an individual who overdosed shortly thereafter.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Charles Hubbard, a former police officer with the Auburn, Georgia Police Department, has been sentenced to federal prison for his role relating to conspiracies to commit extortion, traffic drugs, and commit robbery. Co-defendants, Shane J. Mattadeen, Wilfred Rivera, Michael L. Henley, Jr., Shaeib H. Morgan, Clem C. Williamson, and Martin Rosendary, were also charged in the scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released his comment letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing grave concern in response to the Trump Administration’s proposed changes to the Title X Family Planning Program, which if adopted would severely limit women’s access to health care and undermine Congress’ intent for the program.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Finance Committee today advanced the nominations of Justin Muzinich to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Michael Desmond to be Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and an Assistant General Counsel in the Department of the Treasury.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: Lee Jameson, Facility Manager at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore), retires on Aug. 3, 2018 after 41 years with the National Park Service (NPS) - nearly 24 of them at the National Lakeshore. Jameson, a graduate of the University of Michigan (UM) School of Natural Resources...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
News Release: MACON: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Charles E. Peeler, announces that Ferrell Walker, Jr., a/k/a “Sonny," age 49, of Quitman, Georgia, was found guilty by a jury of possession of child pornography in the Valdosta Division of the Middle District of Georgia on July 31...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 1, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry traveled to Oswego, New York to tour Exelon Generation’s James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant. FitzPatrick, located just north of Syracuse, is the first nuclear power plant Perry has visited as Secretary of Energy.
