News from August 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the Commission to get to the bottom of allegations that Sinclair Broadcast Group lied to the FCC in the company’s failed attempt to acquire Tribune Media Company.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Ranking Member Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the Commission to get to the bottom of allegations that Sinclair Broadcast Group lied to the FCC in the company’s failed attempt to acquire Tribune Media Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: CINCINNATI - Richard Jay Sharp, 55, formerly of Fairfield, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 120 months in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James Hunt, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division announced today that Nafese J. Sanford, 26, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: COLUMBUS, GA-The FBI and Wells Fargo Bank are offering rewards in connection with an armed robbery that occurred at the Wells Fargo Bank at 1000 18th Street, Columbus, Georgia, on Saturday, July 7, 2018.
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and Senate HELP Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Adam Gunn, II, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - The sole proprietor of a purported loan modification consulting company was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for fraudulently billing clients more than $400,000 for services that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: After a 10-week trial, a federal jury in the Eastern District of Michigan convicted four members of the Seven Mile Bloods Street Gang today for their participation in various criminal acts, including racketeering conspiracy and related firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sharon Thompson, 26, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute, and distribution of, crack cocaine within 1000 feet of a public housing property, and conspiracy to retaliate against an informant, was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $8 million in funding for 12 research awards on a range of topics in both basic and use-inspired research in particle accelerator science and technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Jeremiah Wolfe, 20, Lawrencia Merrick, 22, and Natasha Wolfe, 39, were sentenced Friday, Aug. 24, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska, by United States District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr., for the killing of William I. Redhorn, 39, in Winnebago, Nebraska in April...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County, New Jersey, man was arrested today and appeared in federal court on charges of distribution of images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Thousand Oaks man who fraudulently obtained more than $11 million in loans he used to purchase a gas station and two car washes was sentenced today to nearly five years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two Southwestern Pennsylvania residents have been convicted in federal court for violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Mexican citizen who has been deported four times, Jorge Carrillo-Hernandez, 36, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison for unlawfully returning to the United States, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said. He was also sentenced to an additional term of 24 months in prison, to be served consecutively, because he was still on supervised release in another case when he unlawfully returned.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Mo., man who tried to sell firearms to a local pawn shop pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing firearms after law enforcement officers confiscated 50 weapons from him.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned a superseding indictment charging Rodney Mondell Coby, a/k/a “Cuz," age 29, of Waldorf, Maryland, and Steven Jerome, of Leonardtown, Maryland, with distribution of fentanyl resulting in death. Coby is also charged with possession with intent to...
By DOE Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), Ranking Member of the Senate...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 27, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following the publication of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Inspector General (IG) report on Chairman Ajit Pai’s relationship with Sinclair Broadcasting...